adapted by Patrick Barlow
directed by Farren Timoteo
This ingenious four-actor adaptation of Hitchcock’s film - itself adapted from John Buchan’s famous espionage novel - is a breathless mix of comedy and intrigue. Richard Hannay, a dashing Canadian living in London, encounters a mysterious woman, and shortly thereafter finds himself pursued through the Scottish highlands by a shadowy organization.
The 39 Steps
Geoffrey Simon Brown
Priya Narine
Michael Watt
Katie Yoner
Starring
Director - Farren Timoteo
Production Manager - Tiana McLean
Stage Manager - Hunter Luth
Set Designer - Chantel Fortin
Costume Designer - Brian Bast
Lighting Designer - Rory Turner
Intimacy Director - Jenn Galm
Dialect Coach - Doug Mertz
Creative Team
On the Varscona stage
November 13 - 30, 2025
Preview: Nov 13, 2025
All Performances take place at VARSCONA THEATRE - Learn how to get to the theatre here
Evening performances start at 7:30 PM
Sunday Matinees start at 2 PM
Varscona Theatre lobby opens 45 minutes before the start of the performance
Run Time
100 Minutes plus a 15-minute intermission
By Arrangement with Fiery Angel Limited | From the novel by John Buchan | From the movie by Alfred Hitchcock | Licensed by ITV Global Entertainment Limited | And an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon
Special Experiences
Discover Teatro’s special ticket offers and themed evenings - from discounted previews to Pay-What-You-Can Tuesdays, dinner packages, and more!
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Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 7:30 PM. ALL tickets cost $25 each (our lowest ticket price!)
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A PWYC performance means you choose the ticket price! We recommend $20 per ticket, but we happily accept less or more!
The 39 Steps PWYC Performances are:
Tuesday, November 18 at 7:30 PM
Tuesday, November 25 at 7:30 PM
Please Note: PWYC tickets are available at the door only.Our Box Office opens at 6:45 PM and we accept cash, debit, and credit.
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On the 1st Wednesday of every run, be treated to complimentary wine and cheese at intermission (or post show if there is no intermission)! Generously hosted by our Board of Directors with wine provided by Dwayne Bayda with Marc Anthony Wines and Cheese and crackers provided by CKS Legal Technology Law.
Wine and Cheese Night for The 39 Steps: Wednesday, November 19
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Teatro is inviting you on a date . . . with BOXER Kitchen and Bar!
Make your evening of sparkling entertainment complete with a delicious pre-show dinner or charcuterie, courtesy of our neighbours at BOXER KITCHEN AND BAR.
We have two packages:
Dinner Package: One Teatro ticket + your choice of starter & main (5:30 PM seating) - $67
Charcuterie Package: Two Teatro tickets + wine & chef’s charcuterie (6:30 PM seating) - $98See the package dinner menu here
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Step into the spotlight with The Teatro Drama Club - a free night of theatre just for junior high and high school students!
Each event includes a fun pre-show workshop, snacks, and a post-show chat with the cast, all built around a Teatro play at the Varscona Theatre. Led by our Club Facilitator, Mel Bahniuk, Drama Club nights are your all-access pass to the magic, mischief, and creativity of live theatre!
Teatro Drama Club performance is our matinee performance on Sunday, November 23, 2025.
Learn more and sign-up here
The 39 Steps TEAM
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Last seen with Teatro in The Woman in Black, Geoffrey made his debut with the company in Deathtrap in 2022. He is an award-winning Albertan playwright, actor, and theatre creator, and a founding member of the Major Matt Mason Collective where he has produced small-scale independent theatre for the past twelve years. Recent Edmonton credits include the premiere productions of his plays Michael Mysterious (Pyretic Productions) and Night (MMMC/Common Ground Arts Society) as well as performing in Subscribe or Like (Workshop West), and Brick Shithouse (Fenceless Theatre/Found Festival), which won the Sterling Award for best ensemble. He also directed the 2023 Fringe production of This Won’t Hurt, I Promise (Tiny Bear Jaws) and the 2025 Found Festival production of Headhole (Pack of Magpies). His other plays include The Circle (ATP, Tarragon), Progress (commissioned by Central Memorial High School), and the most recent adaptation(s) of A Christmas Carol for Theatre Calgary. He is a graduate of the National Theatre School of Canada’s playwriting program. More at geoffreysimonbrown.com.
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Priya made her Teatro debut in 2024 as Sybil in Private Lives and she’s delighted to return in this tripartite assignment. She’s a mixed-race multidisciplinary theatre artist from Edmonton and a graduate of the BFA Acting program at the University of Alberta. Edmonton audiences have recently seen her as Maria in The Sound of Music, a co-production between the Citadel and the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre, and last season she appeared in Heist, presented by the Citadel and the Grand Theatre in London, Ontario. Other select credits include: Four seasons of A Christmas Carol at The Citadel, Measure for Measure and A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Freewill Shakespeare Festival, Queen Lear is Dead with Fox Den Collective, and the Theatre Yes/Citadel co-production Slight of Mind. Love and thanks to her family and friends for their endless support, especially Jessy and Cedar.
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Michael is so thrilled to be making their Teatro Live! debut in The 39 Steps! Michael is an Edmonton-based performer and creator and is a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting program. They can often be found creating and indulging in music and theatre projects both independently and with frequent collaborator, Jacquelin Walters. Laughing, giggling, and guffawing are major priorities in Michael’s artistic practice. Recent performance credits include: Cadaver Synod (Vault Theatre); Cyrano de Bergerac (Collider Festival); FEED (Mile Zero Dance); Bea (Shadow Theatre); Witch (Bleviss Lab Theatre); and Let’s Not Turn On Each Other (Walters & Watt). You can catch Michael performing weekly in Die-Nasty at the Varscona Theatre, as well as in Countries Shaped Like Stars at the Fringe Theatre in February.
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Making her Teatro Live debut in this production, Katie is a performer and comedian currently residing in Treaty 6 territory. She’s a graduate of the University of Alberta’s BFA Acting Program, and co-creator (with Dayna Lea Hoffmann) of the theatre collective Batrabbit Productions, which seeks to challenge the historically male-dominated art form of comedy and explore the “funny” femme body on stage. Their first large-scale production, Rat Academy, was produced, written, and performed by Yoner and Hoffmann in 2023. It subsequently toured theatres and Festivals across Canada (One Yellow Rabbit, Pi, and more) and has been the recipient of multiple awards including three Sterling Awards. A sequel Gnaw and Order: Rat Academy 2 played at this year’s Edmonton Fringe and will be seen in Vancouver next spring. In addition to theatre, Katie has performed stand-up across the country and was recently featured in Grindstone’s Comedy Festival and Santa Monica’s Bergamot Comedy Festival. She’s a mainstage improviser and teacher with Rapid Fire Theatre and Grindstone Theatre, and has performed with Loose Moose Theatre and The Kinkonauts in Calgary, AB.
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Brian’s last project with Teatro was the original Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s and he is thrilled to be back with so many older friends. He’s an award winning Edmonton set and costume designer whose work has been seen on stages across Alberta with Shadow Theatre, Festival Players, Alberta Opera, Workshop West Playwrights Theatre, Players De Novo, Red Deer College, Grande Prairie Live Theatre, Opera Nuova, McEwan University, Citadel Theatre, The Mayfield Dinner Theatre and Theatre Yes along with numerous Fringe Productions. Favorite productions he has designed include: 10 times 2 (Sterling Award winner for Outstanding Costume Design), My Name is Rachel Corrie, The List (Both nominated for Set Design), Race, Dead Letter, Glorious, Spring Awakening, Into the Woods, Little Shop of Horrors, The Weir, Xanadu, A Little Night Music, As You Like It, White Christmas, Twelfth Night, Cinderella and The Colour of Flesh (Both nominated for Costume Design), Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady and most recently last seasons Stars on Her Shoulders for WWPT. Enjoy the show and hold on to your hats.
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Chantel made her Teatro debut with Cocktails at Pam’s in 2016 and her subsequent set designs for the company include On the Banks of the Nut, The Noon Witch, Private Lives, The Oculist’s Holiday, The Exquisite Hour/Love is for Poor People, Deathtrap, Shockers Delight!, and Witness to a Conga, the last of which earned her a Sterling nomination. She also designed the sets for Teatro’s 2021 streaming project Lost Lemoine: Parts One and Two. She’s a freelance scenic artist and prop master who’s been working in film and theatre in Edmonton for the past 19 years. Her other set design credits include Our Man in Havana for Bright Young Things, Going to St. Ives and Mesa for Atlas Theatre, and Shadow Theatre’s Fly Me to the Moon. She’s also done scenic painting and prop work for Workshop West, The Citadel, and Edmonton Opera. In other media, she was the production designer for the Government of Alberta’s Mr. Covidhead commercials, and she did the art direction for music videos by singer Roya Yazdanmehr. She also served as production designer for feature length films produced locally by Northern Gateway Films under the Hallmark banner, and for Dept. 9’s most recent feature Souls Road.
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Jenn Galm (she/they) is a multidisciplinary creator proudly based in amiskwaciwâskahikan, colonially known as Edmonton. She is currently pursuing certification as an Intimacy Director with Principal Intimacy Professionals (PIP). Previous Intimacy work includes: HOT GARBAGE (Theatre Network Summer Academy), Hadestown (Strathcona High School), Heathers (Lillian Osborne High School), and Grease (Churchmice Players Society). Her work philosophy includes building a culture of consent within traditionally underserved spaces and striving for growth and knowledge to achieve greater understanding. Jenn is honoured to have been part of the process of bringing 39 Steps to life. “You would have loved this one, Dad!”
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Hunter is delighted to return to Teatro Live!, having stage managed Deathtrap, Private Lives, and The Noon Witch. He is an Equity Stage Manager based in Edmonton, and is a graduate of MacEwan University’s Theatre Production program. Selected previous credits include work as an apprentice stage manager on La Bohème, Candide, Rigoletto, and Count Ory for Edmonton Opera, Vanya & Sonia & Masha & Spike for Shadow Theatre, assistant stage manager for Edmonton Opera’s Orphée+, Stabat Mater, Don Giovanni, Das Rheingold, Bluebeard's Castle, and Die Walküre, and as stage manager of Jack and the Beanstalk and Hansel and Gretel Virtual Tour for Alberta Musical Theatre Company, and Hold These Truths for University of Alberta & Edmonton Japanese Cultural Association, and Cosi Fan Tutte for Opera Kelowna. He also served as technical director/production manager for Alberta Musical Theatre’s Pinocchio, and he returns to Edmonton Opera later this season as assistant stage manager for Indians on Vacation and Siegfried.
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After doing Scenic Construction/Carpentry on numerous Teatro shows in recent seasons, Tiana is now the company’s first official Production Manager, and as of last season, she is the Varscona Theatre’s Director of Production. A graduate of Grant MacEwan University’s Theatre Production program, Tiana has spent the last two decades working in Edmonton Theatre, where extreme weather, fire, illnesses, broken scenery, aggressive prop handling, and squirrels have taught her much about problem solving and remaining calm in a crisis. Past credits include working as Production Manager for FreeWill Shakespeare Festival, Head of Lighting and Carpentry for Theatre Network, and Technical Director for Alberta Musical Theatre (formerly Alberta Opera). Her favourite show experiences include doing scenic construction for AMTC’s Pinocchio and Northern Light Theatre’s Monstress, and building the tricky/scary sets for The Woman in Black both at Theatre Network and Teatro Live!
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Farren is in his first season as Artistic Director of Teatro Live! He first appeared with the company in 2005 in A Momentary Lapse, and his subsequent Teatro credits include acting in A Rocky Night for His Nibs, Mother of the Year, The Scent of Compulsion, Marvelous Pilgrims, A Grand Time in the Rapids, and Listen Listen, and directing the original productions of Everybody Goes to Mitzi’s and The Infinite Shiver, which he also co-authored. His other acting credits include Jersey Boys, The Three Musketeers, The Fiancee, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Monty Python’s Spamalot (Citadel Theatre), As You Like It and Shakespeare in Love (Citadel/Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre), The Light in the Piazza (Theatre Calgary), and Forever Plaid and Little Shop of Horrors (Mayfield Dinner Theatre). He’s just returned from performing his original solo play Made in Italy for the second time at Theatre Calgary, after performing it across Western Canada and in Toronto for Mirvish Productions. Farren’s work as an actor has earned him two Sterling Awards, as well as Vancouver’s Jessie Richardson Award. For the past two decades, he was Artistic Director of Alberta Musical Theatre (formerly Alberta Opera) the company which tours original musicals to schools throughout the province.
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Rory is a designer, performer, and theatre maker from the prairies, and made his Teatro debut with last season’s The Noon Witch, and returned for On the Banks of the Nut. He attended the Theatre Arts program at MacEwan University and studied theatre design at the University of Alberta. He is a design instructor at the Citadel’s Foote Theatre School, a lighting designer for Common Ground Arts’ RISER production development projects, and the Scenic Arts Supervisor for the U of A Drama Department. Rory is also a freelance draftsman and scale model maker. Selected design credits: Is My Microphone On? (Citadel Young Company), The Immaculate Perfection… (Body Cube Arts), Hyena’s Trail (Here For Fear Collective), MINE, In My Own Little Corner, Omisimawiw, After Faust, The Debut (Common Ground Arts). Selected acting credits: Onions and Garlic, The Importance of Being Earnest, Creatures of Impulse, She's Not Him and He's Not Her, The Flying Doctor (Empress of Blandings).
There is Always Time for Haddock
Early on in The 39 Steps, when Richard Hannay finds himself unexpectedly entertaining the mysterious provocateuse Annabella Schmidt in his home, he asks if she’s hungry and offers to whip up some haddock for a late dinner. Is this really an apt suggestion for characters under duress, we wondered. Well it turns out, the preparation is relatively simple with minimal clean-up, and might be just the thing if you’re only a few steps from becoming a fugitive.