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Open House 2005

The National Theatre School... Like An Open Book !
Open House on Saturday October 1 from 11 am to 5 pm

September 19, 2005 – To celebrate its 45th anniversary, the NTS is taking a page from Montreal, World Book Capital and revealing the secrets behind its bricks-and-mortar cover for this year’s Open House during the Journées de la culture on Saturday, October 1st from 11 AM to 5 PM.

Like An Open Book is poised to be one of the upcoming cultural season’s best-sellers! It features chapters on the School’s set and costume design, production, acting, directing, and playwriting programs. This is a unique opportunity to take a fascinating peek at the backstage workings of Canada’s foremost theatrical training institution. Sit in on rehearsals and workshops, see what is taught and how it is done, and talk to NTS students and staff about the School and it’s programs.


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"Play" it forward!

Visitors to the School are encouraged to bring along with them a personalized copy of their favourite play, part of a growing trend around the world to "liberate" books imprisoned in home libraries. The idea is to abandon a book in a public area where anyone can find it, read it, leave a message in it, and then set it free in another location. The School will leave a number of these plays around the premises and visitors are asked to "play" it forward, switching a copy of their own favourite work with one of the ones discovered at the School.

Happy 30th birthday Écriture dramatique

The School’s Écriture dramatique program turns 30 this year and the School will be celebrating three decades of training some of the most influential French-language playwrights in Quebec. To mark the occasion, special activities will take place all day in the Pauline-McGibbon Studio at which all of the program’s coordinators since its creation in 1975 will be present. Graduates include François Archambault, Dominic Champagne (Writer/Director of Cirque de Soleil’s Varekai and director of their new upcoming Vegas production – Love), François Boulé (C.R.A.Z.Y – this year’s winner of the Best Canadian Film Award at TIFF and the Canadian entry for Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category), Yvan Bienvenue, Sébastien Harrison and Olivier Choinière.

Special guests: Ondinnok

The School has invited the students and teachers of Ondinnok (a new French theatre training program for native artists) to spend the day at the School. Learn about their approach to the craft and the group’s story-telling traditions.

Taking place for the ninth year during the province-wide Journées de la culture, the NTS’s Open House is free and open to the general public. Activities will be in both English and/or French and the duration of the stay is left up to the visitor.