Arts In Pittsburgh

The Red Shoes

Quantum Theatre’s Artistic Director Karla Boos and multimedia artist/dancer Carolina Loyola-Garcia take us through their flamenco fable, an adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes.

In Quantum fashion, the play is set in the unique location of the Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church on the North Side’s Mexican War Streets. Erika Cuenca, Andy Place, Jennifer Tober, and Alexi Morrisey keep the fable moving forward, playing an assemblage of characters. Joining the cast are musicians John Marcinizyn and Lucas Savage. Designers Tony Ferrieri (set), Scott T. Nelson (lights), and Laurie Johnson (costumes) turn this beauty of a church into an environment to contemplate the irrepressible.

Loyola-Garcia, a native of Chile, is known to Pittsburgh audiences for her work with Centro Flamenco de Pittsburgh, which she co-founded to advance the art and culture of flamenco through programs, teaching, and performance. Flamenco is the form of communication originally developed in Spain over the course of 400 years by extraordinarily musical repressed peoples, most notably the Gypsies, to keep their culture alive.

The Red Shoes runs through Sunday, March 4, 2007. Performances: Wed.-Sat. at 8 p.m.; Sun. at 7 p.m.
Where: Allegheny Unitarian Universalist Church, 416 W. North Ave.
Tickets: $27 ($24 Wednesdays and Sundays) and a limited number of $15 student tickets. Call 412-394-3353 or visit ProArts.

In conjunction with the theatrical production, Pittsburgh Filmmakers will present the movie The Red Shoes at the Melwood Screening Room Feb. 25-28. Call 412-681-5449.

Press: Quantum heats up church with flamenco for story of ‘The Red Shoes,’ Post-Gazette
Quantum Theatre dances in ‘Red Shoes,’ Tribune-Review