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Anne & Gilbert: The Musical gives the gift of maritime spirit for...
December 18, 2015Featuring over twenty artists on stage, Anne & Gilbert: The Musical brings together members of the 2015/16 NAC Ensemble with artists who have previously been featured in the Prince Edward Island production, including Ellen Denny and Alex Furber. Vibrant fiddle music is a direct path to…
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The December Man: The private shadow of public violence
November 20, 2015On December 6, 1989, a young man by the name of Marc Lépine entered a college classroom at the École Polytechnique in Montreal carrying a gun. Stepping into a classroom, he separated the male and female students, claiming that he was "fighting feminism.” Overall, he killed fourteen women…
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Adventures Behind the Scenes and on the Stage
October 30, 2015On October 22, 2015, National Arts Centre Foundation supporters attended a pre-chat featuring English Theatre Artistic director Jillian Keiley in conversation with playwright and director Djanet Sears. They spoke about Djanet’s emotionally charged play, The Adventures of a Black Girl in…
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Lucinda Davis speaks about The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search...
October 23, 2015NAC English Theatre opens its 2015/16 season with Djanet Sears’ The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, arriving after a triumphant four-week run in Montreal at the Centaur Theatre. Created by Governor General's Literary Award-winning playwright Djanet Sears, Adventures is a…
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Young People and the Arts at the NAC
October 2, 2015Meet the National Arts Centre’s artistic leaders: Cathy Levy, Executive Producer, NAC Dance; Jillian Keiley, Artistic Director NAC English Theatre; Brigitte Haentjens, Artistic Director NAC French Theatre; and Alexander Shelley, Music Director, NAC Orchestra. All of them care deeply about…
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Arts Education: An opportunity to talk heart to heart.
July 29, 2015When actor Lois Anderson attended the theatre as a grade 10 student it had a profound impact on her. "I couldn't stop thinking about what had happened to me in the theatre," says Lois, “when I was in that space with the lights down - being drawn into a story that was live." Young people…
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Realizing a fuller Canadian story through Indigenous Theatre Works and Performance Practice
July 6, 2015Since the fall of 2012, NAC English Theatre has been working with Indigenous artists and leaders towards the realization of The Study. Together students and professionals alike explored aspects of the Indigenous body of performance work created across this vast land. The Study culminated…
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Take Me Back to Jefferson
April 2, 2015The National Arts Centre is proud to present some of Canada’s most creative artists and arts organizations on its stages, and Theatre Smith-Gilmour is no exception. The highly acclaimed Toronto company has a 35-year history of producing highly engaging, award-winning works. Their production…
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Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival: Bringing together Canadian artists one festival at...
March 10, 2015Canada’s Magnetic North Theatre Festival has the distinction of being Canada’s only national theatre festival. Co-presented by the National Art Centre’s English Theatre, Magnetic North travels to a new host community in Canada every second year from their base in Ottawa, helping to support…
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Stuff Happens: powerful political theatre
February 12, 2015In the play Stuff Happens playwright David Hare examines the events leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. For actor Stuart Hughes, Stuff Happens is a history play, and as such, goes far beyond mimicking the television personas of the play’s characters, who include Colin Powell, George…
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Director David Ferry on Stuff Happens
February 5, 2015Award-winning actor and director David Ferry describes Stuff Happens by legendary British playwright Sir David Hare as a cautionary tale of Shakespearean proportions. "It's like Richard III, or Henry V,” he said. “It deals with huge issues of power, of access to power, and how power can be…
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The Summit: English Theatre explores the power of Indigenous stories
January 20, 2015Excerpt from Prelude Magazine Sarah Garton Stanley, Associate Artistic Director NAC English Theatre, admits she was nervous. She and Yvette Nolan, co-curators for The Summit, were about to bring together a distinguished group of 12 Indigenous leaders and artists from across the country…
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A Tale of Childhood Discovery
December 16, 2014When Alice enters the surreal looking-glass world, she moves in a dreamlike game of chess where logical reasoning and adult thinking rarely deliver the outcome she expects. For the NAC’s English Theatre ensemble, a big part of rehearsals for Alice Through the Looking-Glass was…
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Behind the Scenes – the Building of Alice
November 12, 2014Recorded at the Stratford Festival, get an early look behind the scenes of the costumes and sets for the English Theatre production of Alice Through the Looking-Glass. Don’t miss the article on Set and Costume Designer Bretta Gerecke in the Holiday issue of Prelude. Follow Alice on Twitter…
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Needles and Opium - an Exceptional Collaboration at the NAC
March 18, 2014Robert Lepage’s Needles and Opium presented by English Theatre and Théâtre français in 2015 On March 11, 2014, Jillian Keiley and Brigitte Haentjens – Artistic Directors of the National Arts Centre English and Théâtre français respectively – met with the media to announce an exciting…
