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Monday, August 28, 2023

Quantum Theatre finds rare Treasure in Hamlet lead

Pittsburgh City Paper: Few Shakespearean works are as rich with subtext as Hamlet. The over 400-year-old play still fascinates audiences and, as a result, has received more than a few modern interpretations on stage and screen. The already fraught story receives another jolt of complexity through Quantum Theatre, who returned to the Carrie Blast Furnaces — an abandoned steel mill-turned-historical site where, in 2019, the company staged Shakespeare's King Lear — to present a new take on the work.

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