Media Release | Teatro Live! presents Listen, Listen

It’s a Teatro Trip to the 1980s in a Brand New Muzakal Comedy!

Written by Elyne Quan
Directed by Belinda Cornish

May 26 - June 11, 2023

At The Varscona Theatre
10329 83 Ave NW

Tickets at teatrolive.com

EDMONTON- This has been a busy season of innovation and reinvention at Teatro Live!, but there’s one tradition to which we’re happily adhering, and this is that a brand new play in the spring can be a wonderful thing. To that end, we’re pleased to announce the world premiere of Listen, Listen, a bracing and vivacious comedy written by the noted Edmonton-born playwright and screenwriter Elyne Quan, playing at the Varscona Theatre from May 26 to June 11.

In Listen, Listen, we are transported to a world at once exotic and familiar - a local shopping mall in 1986. There we meet Montague Gray, an unassuming bookstore clerk with a quiet reverence for the Muzak he plays in the store on his carefully curated cassette mix-tapes. When first-time customer and book lover Jean Norton asserts herself as an adherent of shopping in silence, Montague’s world is blown apart, and he quickly becomes an increasingly passionate warrior on behalf of the dulcet and forgettable soundtrack that is now forbidden.

The cast for Listen, Listen includes Farren Timoteo as Montague, Nadien Chu as Jean, Alexander Ariate, Nikki Hulowski.

Directed be Belinda Cornish, the creative team includes Set Designer Chantel Fortin; Costume Designer Leona Brausen; Lighting Designer Narda McCarroll; Stage Manager Frances Bundy.

Listen, Listen plays May 26 to June 11 at the Varscona Theatre. Performances are Tuesday through Saturday evenings at 7:30 p.m., with 2:00 p.m. matinees on Sundays. Additionally, there is a preview performance on Thursday, May 25 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets and Subscriptions may be purchased at teatroq.com

Admission is $42 for adults and $37 for seniors/students.
All seats for Sunday matinees are $30.
Tuesday evenings are Pay-What-You-Can- available at the door only.