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Sometimes a Scottish analyst sets his fanny down on a sloshing waterbed and tells it like it is. Or so it happens in Listen, a psychological comedy set in the West San Fernando Valley hills of LA’s 1970s, on the evening of an ill-advised party thrown by and for a cast of therapists.
When faced with their own lives, these listening professionals hear what they wish to hear and say more than they mean to say. But they machinate in platform shoes, wide collars, and a bewildering array of psychobabble that only the brusque no-nonsense demeanor of a teenager can cut through.Prepare for an evening of betrayal, staggering errors in judgment, persnickety timing, and sorry, absurd revenge as a sex therapist attempts to school her daughter in how to manage affairs of the heart.
It’s 1969, “the summer of love” in the California desert. Clayton Moore (television’s Lone Ranger) and his daughter visit an old friend on his ranch. But times have changed and they find the ranch overrun by hippies—members of the infamous Manson family, including Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme and Charles Manson himself—a few weeks before they made themselves famous with a series of murders. Can the Lone Ranger save his friend and daughter? Will Squeaky learn patience with her macramé? And will Charlie Manson get the recording contract he’s been dreaming of?
Suggested by a true story, it’s a dark comedic ride to the finish.
A community theater stalwart and blue collar worker, Tim, becomes jealous of a newcomer, Ron, a professor at the local university who is cast in all the leading roles he used to receive. The two are cast in a new play under development, One by One. In the play within the play the characters are killed off one by one while Ron experiences a variety of accidents that threaten his life during rehearsals. The surprise ending reveals an unexpected theatrical reality.
Cabaret and Sanders Family Christmas tickets are $14 each. Comedies in Concert tickets are $5 each - or buy the entire season for only $25 (not available online).
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Published by: Department of Theatre, University
of Missouri-Columbia
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Last Update: May 7, 2008
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