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| Bill Glassco passes
away Bill Glassco, major Canadian theatrical force and NTS past teacher and governor passed away on September 13, 2004 of throat cancer. Bill Glassco was a champion of new Canadian works. Tarragon, CanStage, and Montreal Young Company can claim him as founder and/or co-founder, and for many years, he was closely associated with the work of Michel Tremblay. But the School was proud to have him as both inspirational teacher and guest lecturer, on and off between 1978 and 1998 and governor from 1971 to 1979, and again from 1998 until 2001. His generosity, sensitivity, and full understanding of the creative theatrical process will sorely be missed by the entire Canadian theatre community. |
| Elli Bunton at the
Neptune Elli Bunton (Scenography 2004) is designing the costumes for Neptune Theatre’s production of Three in the Back, Two in the Head, written by Jason Sherman and running in Halifax from November 9 to 28, 2004. For the full Neptune season click here. |
| Board of Governors Winter and Summer Meetings of NTS Board of Governors to be held in conjunction with theatre festivals featuring Canadian works. The winter and summer 2005 meetings of the School’s Board of Governors will be held in Calgary and Ottawa respectively. The winter session will be held in February during the Enbridge playRites Festival of New Canadian Plays and the summer gathering will occur on June 9, 10 and 11 and will coincide with Magnetic North Theatre Festival. |
| Come
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more information, click here. |
Every
year for the past 8 years, the School has opened its doors to the
Montreal public. It has always done so during the Quebec province-wide
Journées de la culture event, loosely translated as Cultural
Days. The Open House is both a festive and professional working
day permitting the visitor to watch, ask questions, participate,
wander and be enthralled by the scope and magnitude of the creative
work being done at NTS on a daily basis. Of course, the School
colours it up a bit, puts on a few airs, tries out several new
things… all this for the benefit of both the public and the
art form. All in all, it’s one of the best ways to get to
know the School.
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Public Performances of the It’s official, it’s
a go. The School is glad to announce the 2004-2005 graduating class
performances at Montréal’s Monument-National. We start
in October with In Flagrante, a piece casting a penetrating look
at priorities, assumptions and social contracts created by Sarah
Stanley, Nick Carpenter (Playwriting 1998), and the acting company.
In December, this will be followed by The Honest Whore, written
by Thomas Dekker and Thomas Middleton and directed by Peter Hinton.
February will showcase the New Words Festival featuring the end-of-year
works by graduates of the Playwriting program, Livia Berius and
German Saravanja. Their pieces will be directed by graduates of
the Directing program, Christian Barry and Brendan Healy. The season
will come to an end in April with Angels in America, Part
2: Perestroika written by the award winning Tony Kushner and directed by David
Storch (Acting 1987). |
| NTS played host to CITT 14th Annual Conference and Trade Show
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After a seven-year absence, the
CITT/ICTS Annual Conference and Trade Show returned to Montreal
to reconnect with Quebec’s performing arts milieu. Three
days of exchanges, panels, trade show exhibits and showcases, and
visits of performing arts spaces moved from Montreal’s Palais
des congrès on August 13th to the National Theatre School
of Canada for the August 14th General Meeting, and the seminars,
discussions and regional meetings closing the 2004 conference on
August 15th. Both James Stewart (Technical Production 2002), Technical
Coordinator of NTS and
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Guest Teachers and Directors Students at the School have
the privilege of interacting and learning from very talented
artists — Ronnie Burkett of The Ronnie Burkett Theatre
of Marionettes; Leah Cherniak; Jill Keiley; Jon Wild; Kate Hennig;
Judith Koltai-Peavy; Adam Pettle (Playwriting 1999); Reynald
Robinson; Susan Benson; Michael Whitfield, Louise Guinand, and
Stéphane F. Jacques (Jeu 1991). Sarah Stanley is back
in our midst to direct the 3rd year actors in In Flagrante;
René-Daniel
Dubois (Jeu 1976) will direct the 4th year French acting students
in Offenbach’s Orphée aux enfers, and Italian
choreographer Veronica Melis is here to direct 3rd year French
acting students. |
| Appointment
of Luc Pelletier |
The School has a new administrative director and his name is Luc
Pelletier. His mandate encompasses a wide range of administrative
functions for which he is more than well-suited. He has over fifteen
years of experience in project management and organizational logistics.
Mr. Pelletier’s career path has led him to work in many cities
across Canada; he also spent four years working in Europe (The
Netherlands). During the past four years, he held the position
of Account Director-Publicity Manager at PALM, a Montreal advertising
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