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)
Study Guides from NAC English Theatre Productions
* Current season study guides are in bold
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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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After the Orchard by Jason Sherman (398k) |
2005-2006 |
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Angel Square based on the book by Brian Doyle (1.4 mb) |
2002-2003 |
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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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A Woman in Waiting by Yael Farber and Thembi Mtshali (1 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Beneath the Banyan Tree by Emil Sher (1.6 mb) |
2005-2006 |
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The Bookshop Written by Marie-Josée Bastien, Translated by Maureen Labonté (380k) |
2006-2007 |
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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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Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (112k) |
2002-2003 |
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Copper Thunderbird by Marie Clements (4 mb) |
2006-2007 |
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Danish Play (The) by Sonja Mills (1.2 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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The Donnellys : Sticks and Stones By James Reaney (398k) |
2005-2006 |
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Dream Machine by Blake Brooker (1.4 mb) |
2006-2007 |
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Dumb Waiter (The) by Harold Pinter (1.6 mb) |
2005-2006 |
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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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Frida K by Gloria Montero (1.1 mb) |
2006-2007 |
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George and Martha by James Marshall (370k) |
2005-2006 |
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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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Hamlet by William Shakespeare (240k) |
2003-2004 |
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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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I Am My Own Wife by Doug Wright (400k) |
2005-2006 |
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I met a Bully on the Hill by Martha Brooks and Maureen Hunter (310k) |
2003-2004 |
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The Little Years by John Mighton (712k) |
2006-2007 |
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Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare (425k) |
2004-2005 |
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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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MacHomer written and performed by Rick Miller (168k) |
2003-2004 |
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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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The Odyssey (1 mb) | 2004-2005 |
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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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The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood (1.8 mb) |
2007-2008 |
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Portrait of an Unidentified Man by Pierre Brault (2.5 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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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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Rough House written and performed by Andy Massingham (148k) |
2006-2007 |
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Rutherford and Son a drama by Githa Sowerby (2.8 mb) |
2004-2005 |
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Scorched by Wajdi Mouawad (1.5mb) |
2006-2007 |
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simpl by Peter Froehlich (400k) |
2003-2004 |
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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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Tiger of Malaya by Hiro Kanagawa (165k) |
2003-2004 |
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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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"Vaudevilles" of Chekhov (The) by Anton Chekhov (900k) |
2002-2003 |
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Victoria presented by Dulcinea Langfelder & Co. (400k) |
2004-2005 |
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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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Winter's Tale (The) by William Shakespeare (180k) |
2002-2003 |
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Written on Water by Michel Marc Bouchard, translated by Linda Gaboriau (200k) |
2003-2004 |
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The Wrong Son by Allen Cole (1.8 mb) |
2006-2007 |
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The Zoo Story by Edward Albee (1.6mb) |
2005-2006 |
