Spectacles des Finissants

ABOUT THE PLAY

Potent and topical, THE LISTENING ROOM is a powerful new political drama set at the turn of the next century. At the heart of a forgotten society calling itself ‘The Earie,’ young dissidents use radio telescopes to salvage fragments of earlier civilizations still ricocheting between stars.

Acknowledgement

The National Theatre School of Canada would like to thank The Banff Center Playwrights Colony for supporting the development of this play.

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Michaela Jeffery is a graduating Playwriting student at the National Theatre School. She was awarded Alberta Theatre Projects' Enbridge Playwrights Award in the Emerging Playwright category for her play Going West. Her play Always, won the second place in The Wildfire National Playwriting Competition, as well as the Dorothy White Award from the Ottawa Little Theatre’s National One-Act Playwriting Competition. In June 2015, her play Godhead was brought to the stage at the Sunset Theatre in Wells, BC.

ABOUT THE DIRECTOR

Tanya Rintoul is a director and theatre maker originally from Toronto, Ontario currently in her graduating year in the National Theatre School of Canada’s Directing program. Recent directing credits at the school include: Gruesome Playground Injuries by Rajiv Joseph, Flesh and Other Fragments of Love by Évelyne de la Chenelière, Expanding Concepts of Dislocated Space and Associated Boundaries by Michaela Jeffery and assistant director of Brecht’s Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by Micheline Chevrier. Previous directing credits include Othello (Go Play Producing), Mammy Queen (Rock Paper Sistahz Festival), Sycorax and the Angel (Paprika Festival) and No Time for Dreams (barking birds theatre at the Toronto Fringe). She is also a graduate of the Humber College Theatre Performance program and last performed in a site-specific one-woman show she wrote called Good Girl. Upcoming projects: New Words Festival (NTS) and assistant directing for Ann-Marie Kerr on Love Play (NTS).