AMERICAN THEATRE: It’s rare to see a play go from page to stage as quickly as The Devil Is a Lie touched down in front of a Pittsburgh audience. Playwright Jennifer Chang is still amazed that it happened at all.
She can chalk this remarkable feat up to Pittsburgh’s Quantum Theatre, an adventurous environmental company where compelling storytelling is never too challenging or too risky to get the green light. Rule-breaking is the norm.
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I clicked on the article because I saw a lot of posters for The Devil Is A Lie and I even think Susan Tsu sent out an email promoting us to go see it haha. I liked that the show is a deviant from traditional theatrical norms as the Quantum is known to be open to doing. I like experimental theater especially nowadays when sometimes upholding traditions in this industry often excludes different groups of people on varying levels of identity. In a show dealing with the horrors of pandemic and election life I think it's fitting that phones are incorporated since inputting opinions via the internet is what affected these subjects and turned off events so drastically in the first place. I also think that installation is just impressive in itself of being able to work so effortlessly. My final comment on the article is it’s nice to see a lot of Asian-American theatre worker representation in this production and article because not only does it bring me hope but also I feel it is sometimes rare to see diverse production and design sides of theatre in articles specifically relating to Pittsburgh.
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