Both plays featured some of Edmonton’s most exciting and versatile actors. 2001 snail mail: To make them accessible to modern audiences in their local cultures without watering down the content. Since 2001, we have had the privilege to create with peoples of: Treaty 6: Traditional territory of the of the Cree, Dene, Blackfoot, Saulteaux, Nakota Sioux, and Métis. We also enjoyed great success at the 2008 International Fringe Theatre Festival with Maggie Now Parts Three and Four. What school are you from? Romeo and Juliet toured to Alberta schools, along with multi-day residencies of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The artists and audiences that come together to share these stories reflect their diversity. The venues where they meet include theatres in Amiskwachy/Edmonton, our home venue on Alberta Avenue, found spaces, classrooms, seniors’ centres and school gyms across Alberta. Change ), You are commenting using your Google account. In November 2000 we had over 2000 students out to see our highly successful production. Our Role in the Arts Community We continue touring our highly successful productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Macbeth, as well as a major tour of Hamlet, to a total of over seventy schools across Alberta. Théâtre Prospero - Tous droits réservés. To celebrate and bring to immediate life other works that deal with great themes about humans as individuals and societies. 
Over the 2008/2009 season we toured Much Ado About Nothing and Romeo and Juliet in repertory to Alberta schools. Putting your students on stage with our professionals in Shakespeare's plays! Areas of instruction included acting, voice, movement, design, stage management, ensemble work, story telling, music and writing. Our TYA shows are ready to hit the road, complete with professional actors, costumes, tech, and props. You pick the date and your performance time. 2002 We have also performed for Edmonton elementary school children and the general public, including Fringe Festival audiences. We would like to extend a thank you to those whose generous donations contribute largely to Theatre Prospero's operations. Theatre Prospero, Montreal: See 3 reviews, articles, and photos of Theatre Prospero, ranked No.294 on Tripadvisor among 428 attractions in Montreal. Many of our student performers keep coming back to our projects in increasingly challenging roles. 2011 Theatre Prospero is based in Amiskwaciy/Edmonton, Alberta/Treaty 6. At the Edmonton Fringe Festival we staged a hugely successful production of Jennifer Spencer’s play Maggie Now, Part one. François Arnaud, geboortenaam François Barbeau (Montreal, 5 juli 1985) is een Canadees acteur.In zijn lopende carrière was hij al actief in het theater, op filmsets en in televisieseries. The Second Shepherds’ Play – Our first foray into the field of mediæval drama was at McDougall United Church in December. The same production toured to over forty Alberta Schools by May 2005, rehearsing students into the play in mornings, and then performing it with them for their peers in the afternoon. It featured a cast of a quarter thousand. Students re-wrote The Bacchae into a modern setting, featuring a chorus of ravers and their guru pitted against a neo-conservative regime and its fascistic leader. originating with our residencies last year – during we helped create a new musical for one of our client schools – Theatre Prospero announced plans to continue exploring styles and periods of theatre beyond Shakespeare, as well as committing to the staging of Maggie Now Parts two and three. We like to give young performers a chance to fly. In the spring we brought back A Midsummer Night’s Dream, much to the delight of Alberta schools, and put on the amazing King Lear as well. We are based in Edmonton, Alberta, with office and performance spaces on 118th Avenue. Students from these residences (and from open auditions) were recruited to take part in the completely separate AFA-funded production of the play, which we mounted in May of 2000. Many of the students that we have worked with in the last decade and a half have gone on to make considerable contributions to the arts and arts education. Theatre Prospero is based in Amiskwaciy/Edmonton, Alberta/Treaty 6. Much Ado About Nothing marked our fourth Shakespeare since March 1994 with a mixed cast of student and professional actors. 9210 118 Avenue We provide single- and multi-day and multi-week Artist-in-Residence programs for junior and senior high schools around the province. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. We shall be carrying out our spring tour to Alberta schools with our single- and multi-day residencies of Macbeth and The Tempest. The students in the schools we visit get to act in these plays with our professionals. Avec > Avec Marc Béland, Sophie Cadieux, Francis Ducharme, Émilie Monnet, Dominique Quesnel, Avec > Avec Alexandre Bergeron, Philippe Cousineau, Nadine Jean, Dominique Leduc, Mireille Métellus, Philippe Racine, Avec > Avec Gregory Hlady, Catherine de Léan, Benoit Mauffette, Louise Naubert, Avec > Avec Paul Ahmarani, Louise Bombardier, Catherine Chabot, Avec > Avec Vlad Alexis, Florence Blain Mbaye, Stacey Désilier, Anglesh Major, Coproduction Le Groupe de la Veillée et Act Opus, Avec > Avec Céline Bonnier, Emmanuel Schwartz, Coproduction Le Groupe de la Veillée et Carte Blanche, Mise en scène > Création Késia Demers, Gabriel L’Archevêque, Antoine Pelletier, Avec > Késia Demers, Gabriel L’Archevêque, Antoine Pelletier, Productions Erapop, en coproduction avec Carte Blanche et Le Groupe de la Veillée, Oeuvre adaptée par le réalisateur Frédéric Baune, Forêt et tempête (Faust, première partie), Quel dernier grand conflit pour satisfaire la haine entre les hommes, La fin de l’homme rouge / Le temps du désenchante-ment, Quand nous nous serons suffisamment torturés. We performed an audience-participation production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Fringe Festival to critical and audience acclaim. At the 2007 Edmonton International Fringe Festival, Theatre Prospero and the Prosperous Paddies Co-op built on their earlier success with Maggie Now Part One to bring the audience two hits: a richer Part One and the new Part Two. Treaty 8: Traditional territory of the Cree, Dene, and Métis. Theatre Prospero creates productions of new and old theatre rooted in many cultures’ mythologies, from Zulu Epics to Shakespeare. 2,099 Followers, 569 Following, 296 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Théâtre Prospero (@theatreprospero) Edmonton, AB I wanted To thank Liz Carrie Miranda Joyce Ted Elliot And Mark For Coming To Holy Family School In grimshaw I and Everyone At Your School Miss You Guys Alot Thank you For letting Our School Be a Part Of Romeo and Juliet I Had A Blast THANKSS XD. 2003 A Midsummer Night’s Dream – a two-week, AFA-funded Artists in Residence Program at Laurier Heights Elementary-Junior High. and Music. THÉÂTRE PROSPERO BILLETTERIE 514 526-6582 1371, RUE ONTARIO EST, MTL. Children as young as 7 have sat in rapt attention at our productions. The production featured student-designed costumes, sound, set and props. 1999-2000 In the spring we had three successful artists in residence programs of A Midsummer Night’s Dream ranging from 5 to 15 days at Altario School, Buck Mountain Central and Youngstown School with between 50 and 150 active participants at each school involving students from K-12 and community members. Need help visualising? Five professional actors and up to 30 students presented the show to student and community audiences after a three hour workshop. 2010
 Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. 1998 We also participated in Workshop West’s Canoe Festival in January with Maggie Now Part One, and in February launched our annual Serca Festival of Irish Theatre. 2007
 These have ranged from 250-student Shakespeare productions to original work created by students. We can also bring to life non-Shakespearean plays such as Euripides’ The Bacchae, and Trojan Women, as well as Ted Hughes’ The Coming of the Kings. Our primary role is in arts education and audience development. We performed our new production of Hamlet at the Edmonton Fringe festival, yet again with a hugely enthusiastic group of student apprentices. The longer we stay, the more acting your students can do in the play, and the more we can work with them on their character, their movement, voice, and releasing the power of Shakespeare’s language in them. Our AFA-funded spring residency at St. Joseph’s High School in Edmonton spanned almost 8 weeks and brought together over 200 students from Drama, Industrial Arts, English, Religious Studies, Philosophy, A.V. We are also preparing for our third Serca Festival and the first of what we hope also to be an annual festival of mythic theatre and other performances. Our Programming is made possible thanks to: Theatre Prospero is seeking organizations to partner with us in enriching the diversity and extending the reach of our work. ( Log Out /  The same production toured to thirty-six Alberta schools by  May of 2004, rehearsing students into the play in mornings, and then performing it with them for their peers in the afternoon. We don’t just create art in your school, we help to create artists in the community at large. This production, set in 19th- and early 20th-century New York, took Theatre Prospero in a new direction with a non-classical production. Where We Are, Whom We Serve Theatre Prospero creates productions of new and old theatre rooted in many cultures’ mythologies, from Zulu Epic to Shakespeare. September saw first performances of Theatre Prospero’s second new work in two years, Blood Opera:  The Raven Tango Poems featuring text by Edmonton poet Jannie Edwards, images by Paul Saturely, tango choreography by Kathleen Ochoa, performances by Jennifer Spencer and Calvin Malaka, and direction and poeturgy by Mark Henderson. We believe that putting faith in youth can only have positive psychological and sociological repercussions. In October and November we teamed up with The Nataraja Studio to co-produce Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet in repertory for over 3,500 students at the Arts Barns Open Space. The Bacchae – three-week, AFA-funded Artists in Residence program at Ross Shepherd High School that focused on Euripides’ tale. We also continued to tour our hugely successful production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. email: theatreprospero@shaw.ca 2006 tel: 780 761 2773 ( Log Out /  Over the summer we continued with our Serca Festival of Irish Theatre, performing Stewart Parker’s Spokesong and presenting other Irish plays in the old Alberta Cycle building on 118 Avenue. It was a very successful integration of many of this school’s special programs into an excellent modern telling of an ancient yet relevant tale. Recevez du contenu à propos de nos spectacles et de nos activités, des concours et des offres exclusives. The Tempest (1997), which reached an audience of over 1,600; A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1996), which played to 1,500 students over a five-day run. Our Mandate T5G 0N2 Students who want to be involved but don’t want to act can take on a range of technical duties. The artists and audiences that come together to share these stories reflect their diversity. Thanks for the favourable remarks! September saw first performances of Theatre Prospero’s second new work in two years, Blood Opera: The Raven Tango Poems featuring text by Edmonton poet Jannie Edwards, images by Paul Saturely, tango choreography by Kathleen Ochoa, performances by Jennifer Spencer and Calvin Malaka, and direction and poeturgy by Mark Henderson. 2008
 2009 The tour was supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts (AFA). ( Log Out /  Theatre Prospero brings the party to you! Our scripts are faithful to the originals, but edited down to 75 to 120 minute pieces. To keep Shakespeare’s works alive as a tool people can use to explore and celebrate what it means to be human. We performed a highly successful  student-participation production of Macbeth at the Emonton Fringe Festival. Most of our shows can be performed in a variety of spaces, such as music rooms, gyms, and large classrooms. Multi-Day & Multi-Week: Shakespeare and others! If like me you travel mainly by public transport, the closest metro station to Théâtre Prospero is Beaudry… They incorporated live video feed news reports and modern music. 1 review of Théâtre Prospero "I've dedicated this year to arts and let's say that for now, I am doing very well in the plays department. There is funding available from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts to support our visit to your school. To provide innovative and affordable classical theatre for student and community audiences, and to provide high-level training and performance opportunities for teenagers. 2004 What We Do 2005 2006 In the fall we began production and performance of Macbeth, to which we are adding The Tempest for the spring of 2011. Treaty 7: Traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy: Kainai, Piikani and Siksika as well as the Tsuu T’ina First Nation and Stoney Nakoda First Nation. In the fall we toured Alberta with our highly successful one-day workshop/performance of The Taming of the Shrew. In December we did a two-week Artists-in-Residence program at Laurier Heights Elementary-Junior High focusing on Charles Dickens’ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Company History The Taming of the Shrew – Student participation production generously co-sponsored by the Stanley Milner Library. Conditions d'utilisation | Retour au site ( Log Out /  1996-1997 We bring vibrant Shakespeare and other excellent theatre to junior and senior high schools around the province of Alberta through our Artists-In-Residence programmes. Change ). Hi guys I just wanted to thank Liz April John Brennan Mathew richard and Chris for all their help with our schools performance of the tempest ps we all miss you guys alot. 780-761-2773 - Theatre Prospero - 9210 118 Ave, Edmonton, AB. We also give Alberta students the chance to create theatre themselves with professional artists via our. We can come for an entire day, several days, or even two weeks. Site mobile. Here's a map! Change ), You are commenting using your Facebook account. We also give Alberta students the chance to create theatre themselves with professional artists via our School Artists-in Residence Program.