Activities
Check out this collection of fun and educational activities that can be completed both at home and in the classroom.
Script creation and analysis: information and activity
Learn the elements of dramatic structure and consider different ways of starting a play. Let your creativity soar with an activity designed to help you make choices and begin writing a play of your own.
Character, conflict—Action!
Improvise with a partner. Choose a character to portray and a verb to play in a situation with another actor. You will react to each other’s character and to the choices they make as the story unfolds. Can you resolve the situation? Does it need to be resolved? (An activity for pairs.)
What Lies Beneath
Working with minimal script, your job is to tell a story using only the dialogue given, anchoring the lines in a specific situation that makes that story clear to the audience. How do you convey information without adding lines? (An activity for pairs)
Backgrounders
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Aboriginal Theatre in Canada - an overview |
2008-2009 | |
William Shakespeare: an overview of his life, times and work |
2008-2009 |
Study Guides from NAC English Theatre Productions
| Study Guide Name | Current NAC Season: 2011-2012 |
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Salt Water Moon by David French, Directed by Micheline Chevrier |
2011-2012
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Oliver! by Lionel Bart, Directed by Dayna Tekatch |
2011-2012
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2 Pianos 4 Hands Written by and starring Ted Dykstra & Richard Greenblatt |
2011-2012
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Creation by Peter Anderson, Directed by Peter Hinton |
2011-2012
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2010-2011
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i think i can Co-created by Florence Gibson and Shawn Byfield Directed by Conrad Alexandrowicz |
2010-2011 |
| Saint Carmen of the Main By Michel Tremblay |
2010-2011 | |
| Agokwe By Ed Roy |
2010-2011 | |
| Nativity by Peter Anderson |
2010-2011 | |
| Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare |
2010-2011 | |
| Vimy by Vern Thiessen |
2010-2011
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2009-2010
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A Christmas Carol Based on the novel by Charles Dickens (1.5 mb) |
2009-2010 |
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The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare (1.19 mb) |
2009-2010 |
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The Drowsy Chaperone Music and lyrics by Lisa Lambert and Greg Morrison; book by Bob Martin and Don McKellar (1.1 mb) |
2009-2010 |
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Elephant Wake written and performed by Joey Tremblay (565k) |
2009-2010 |
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Holy Cow! script by Javier Swedzky (422k) |
2009-2010 |
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Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht in a new version by Peter Hinton (1.1 mb) |
2009-2010 |
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Mrs. Dexter and her Daily by Joanna McClelland Glass (696k) |
2009-2010 |
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Night a collective creation by Human Cargo, written and directed by Christopher Morris (1.16 mb) |
2009-2010 |
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Where the Blood Mixes
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2009-2010
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2008-2009
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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare (3.2 mb) |
2008-2009 |
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Belle Moral: A Natural History by Ann-Marie MacDonald (3.2 mb) |
2008-2009 |
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The Blue Dragon by Marie Michaud and Robert Lepage (3.2 mb) |
2008-2009 |
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The Changeling by Selma Lagerlof |
2008-2009 |
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The Ecstacy of Rita Joe by George Riga (3.2 mb) |
2008-2009 |
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Happy Days
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2008-2009
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2007-2008
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And All for Love by Alison Lawrence (3 mb) |
2007-2008 |
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Dying to be Sick by Molière (2.1 mb) |
2007-2008 |
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Falstaff by John Wood and Roger Forbes (475k) |
2007-2008 |
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare (1.8 mb) |
2007-2008 |
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The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (1.8 mb) |
2007-2008 |
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Shakespeare's Dog by Rick Chafe (320k) |
2007-2008 |
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The Way of the World (The)
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2007-2008
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2006-2007
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7 Important Things written and directed by Nadia Ross in collaboration with by Jason George Acheson (220k) |
2006-2007 |
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The Bookshop Written by Marie-Josée Bastien, Translated by Maureen Labonté (380k) |
2006-2007 |
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Copper Thunderbird by Marie Clements (4 mb) |
2006-2007 |
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Dream Machine by Blake Brooker (1.4 mb) |
2006-2007 |
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Frida K by Gloria Montero (1.1 mb) |
2006-2007 |
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The Little Years by John Mighton (712k) |
2006-2007 |
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Rough House written and performed by Andy Massingham (148k) |
2006-2007 |
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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad (1.5mb) |
2006-2007 |
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The Snow Show: East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon adapted by Amiel Gladstone from the Norwegian folktake (872k) |
2006-2007 |
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The Wrong Son
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2006-2007
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2005-2006
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After the Orchard by Jason Sherman (398k) |
2005-2006 |
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Beneath the Banyan Tree by Emil Sher (1.6 mb) |
2005-2006 |
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Brilliant! The Blinding Enlightenment of Nikola Tesla by Electric Company: Kim Collier, David Hudgins, Kevin Kerr, Jonathon Young (1.6 mb) |
2005-2006 |
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Caribou Song by Tomson Highway (370k) |
2005-2006 |
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The Donnellys : Sticks and Stones By James Reaney (398k) |
2005-2006 |
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Dumb Waiter (The) by Harold Pinter (1.6 mb) |
2005-2006 |
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George and Martha by James Marshall (370k) |
2005-2006 |
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I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright (400k) |
2005-2006 |
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Raven Stole the Sun by Drew Hayden Taylor (370k) |
2005-2006 |
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The Real Thing by Tom Stoppard (1.1 mb) |
2005-2006 |
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recovery by Greg MacArthur (288 k) |
2005-2006 |
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The Zoo Story
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2005-2006
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2004-2005
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A Woman in Waiting by Yael Farber and Thembi Mtshali (1 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Danish Play (The) by Sonja Mills (1.2 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Humble Boy by Charlotte Jones, a Vancouver Playhouse / National Arts Centre coproduction (1.3 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare (425k) |
2004-2005 |
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The Odyssey (1 mb) | 2004-2005 |
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Portrait of an Unidentified Man by Pierre Brault (2.5 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Rutherford and Son a drama by Githa Sowerby (2.8 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Trying a new play by Joanna McClelland Glass (1.7 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Vanya by Anton Chekhov, a new version by Tom Wood (1.1 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Victoria
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2004-2005
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2003-2004
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Ant and the Grasshopper (The) by Elizabeth Gorrie (900k) |
2003-2004 |
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Arms and the Man by Bernard Shaw (500k) |
2003-2004 |
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Hamlet by William Shakespeare (240k) |
2003-2004 |
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I met a Bully on the Hill by Martha Brooks and Maureen Hunter (310k) |
2003-2004 |
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MacHomer written and performed by Rick Miller (168k) |
2003-2004 |
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Pélagie: An Acadian Musical Odyssey a musical by Vincent de Tourdonnet and Allen Cole (1.3 mb) |
2003-2004 |
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simpl by Peter Froehlich (400k) |
2003-2004 |
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Tiger of Malaya by Hiro Kanagawa (165k) |
2003-2004 |
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Well Being (The) created by Andrew Buckland, Lionel Newton, and Lara Food-Newton collectively known as mouthpiece theatre (400k) |
2003-2004 |
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Written on Water
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2003-2004
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2002-2003
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Angel Square based on the book by Brian Doyle (1.4 mb) |
2002-2003 |
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Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (112k) |
2002-2003 |
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Governor of the Dew and The Velvet Devil by Floyd Favel; by Andrea Menard and Robert Walsh (435k) |
2002-2003 |
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Lulie the Iceberg written by Her Imperial Highness Princess Takamado of Japan Adapted for the stage by Raymond Storey (112k) |
2002-2003 |
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Mary's Wedding by Stephen Massicotte (1.1 mb) |
2002-2003 |
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Mur-Mur (The Wall) (384k) | 2002-2003 |
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"Vaudevilles" of Chekhov (The) by Anton Chekhov (900k) |
2002-2003 |
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Winter's Tale (The) by William Shakespeare (180k) |
2002-2003 |
