Classes

On this quest for “truth”, we are inspired by things that we must see closely for clues to solve a mystery. Grab a spyglass and your detective gear to discover new friends, fun stories, and great week of summer camp. This Arts Immersion at River Landing camp includes ½ day spent at Persephone Theatre and ½ day at Remai Modern, with a performance and display of creations on Friday for friends and family.

Everyone has got a secret, but this group is definitely hiding something. It’s a mystery, and it’s going to take some thought, some careful words, and some great schemes to try and keep this secret…and of course it’s going to take a whole group of friends to make things work. This Arts Immersion at River Landing camp includes ½ day spent at Persephone Theatre and ½ day at Remai Modern, with a performance and display of creations on Friday for friends and family.

This exciting and inspiring class features storytelling, games, improvisation, and boundless energy! Explore the far-off lands, test new ideas and map the furthest reaches of your imagination. Show off your new discoveries for friends and family in a final presentation.

Sketch comedy comprises a series of short scenes called sketches. Taking a cue from our improvisation classes, sketch comedy brings things together for with fun and funny scenes groups will love to perform.

Improvisation forms the basis of any good theatre training. It teaches performers to be spontaneous, listen, and make bold, creative choices. It leads to amazing scenes with clowning, physical theatre, and an incredibly supportive group atmosphere. Make life-long friends while you learn amazing theatre skills.

Opera is a theatrical drama or comedy told in music through powerful, unamplified voices. Build confidence and explore the theatrical world of opera as a creator and a performer in this four-day intensive brought to you in cooperation with Little Opera on the Prairie (LOOP).

Join us at Persephone Theatre for 3 hours of improv games in the morning and then spend the afternoon learning and playing Dungeons & Dragons with a Dungeon Master. Newcomers are welcome to join us for a day of fun, games, and stories. Come for one – three day week, or come back another week and carry on the game. Don’t forget to bring a lunch as we do not provide lunch on these days.

Leap through hoops, balance on beams, roar like a lion, hear the crowds’ screams! Your imagination will soar like a trapeze artist in this returning circus-themed camp.

Extra! Extra! Heroes and Villains returning to Persephone Theatre This Summer! Create your own hero or villain and bring them to life as you invent the world they live in. Explore storytelling, characterization, and the balance of good and evil.

Our favourite fairy tales and stories come to life, but sometimes not quite like we remember them. Storytelling, games, improvisation, and boundless energy; explore a world of strange stories that are meant to tell us something…just what they are meant to say is up to you.

What’s more fun than Musical Theatre? For those who love to sing, dance, and act, Broadway Bound is the place to be this summer! Learn vocal, movement, and acting skills while singing songs from your favourite musicals, and creating your own original piece. (2 week camp)

Look! It’s you! Yes, you! You’re exactly the right kind of Whovian who will enjoy an adventure like never before, just as soon as you walk through Persephone’s door. There’ll be games and stories, nonsense and wiggles, and ever so many of the best kind of giggles.

The benefits of learning clown are no joke! Explore the art of clown and learn amazing skills this summer!

At the heart of it all is performance. Where your story goes, who knows… but in this two-week camp you will build a story that you can perform for your friends and family with confidence.

Imagine a world of sound, story, and the creation of world we can’t see, but can only hear. Develop and use story-telling and performance skills that build a tale ready for podcasting in two fun weeks. Week 1 is all about the story and in Week 2 get your story out there into the great beyond!

Do you like telling funny stories? If you do, this camp is for you! Tell stories inspired by Robert Munsch. It’s a week of silly things using rhyme, games, stories and art. Become the story teller, be a Munschkin!

In a galaxy far far away…is a class just for you and your space imagination! Be a rebel! Be an alien! Control your own planet system. Seek out new adventures in outer space! Create your own character, space-vessel, planet at light-speed and boldly go where no kid has gone before!

NEW!! By popular demand, you know you have always wanted to do a play at Persephone Theatre, so let’s do one! This summer we are excited to see you perform The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker. In just over three weeks we will go through the processes of: auditioning; rehearsals; designing the set, costumes, sound, and lights; stage management; and program design. Audition sides will be sent in advance, and parts will be assigned by audition. Consistent attendance is required. (four weeks)

Imagine world of sound, story, and the creation of world we can’t see, but can only hear. Develop and use story-telling and performance skills that build a tale ready for podcasting. Get your story out there into the great beyond!

At the heart of it all is performance. Where your story goes, who knows… but in this two-week camp you will build a story that you can perform for your friends and family with confidence.

Using songs, rhymes, dancing and pretend, your little creative genius will learn to channel their imagination in guided explorations. This unparented class will show them just how much fun creativity can be!

This energetic and entertaining class designed to introduce children to the wonderful world of theatre will show them how, with just a little bit of creativity, they can transform into just about anything. A wizard! A dinosaur! A warrior! A powerful Queen! Let your imagination soar!

Bring worlds and characters to life through the art of imagination and improvisation. Through games and other activities like visual art and storytelling you and your friends will learn how to truly create new worlds through theatre. A circus? A prehistoric jungle? You decide! Then let’s go!

Take storytelling to a new level! Explore stories creatively by using movement, improvisation, game playing, songs, visual art, and more. Take these stories and rework them into an exciting masterpiece to perform at the end! (two term class)

Game playing, performance creation, and building awareness of the body on stage. Create, express and have a tonne of fun.

So what if there’s no school today! Come to Persephone for games, improv, and story building. Don’t forget to bring a lunch as we do not provide lunch on these days.

NEW!! You want singing and dancing we got it; we’ve got friendships and fun times galore. You wanted musical theatre, we’ve got it! You asked we answered, no big deal, you wanted more… (two term class).

Ages 12-18 work together for a class within the regular school day that is guaranteed to be more fun! This is your opportunity to take a theatre class within your regular school terms providing Drama education, theatrical creation, and performance. Students will experience improvisation, devised creation, script work, and much more, plus finish the term with a performance for friends and family.

Improvisation forms the basis of any good theatre training. It teaches performers to be spontaneous, listen, and make bold, creative choices. It leads to amazing scenes with clowning, physical theatre, and an incredibly supportive group atmosphere. Make lifelong friends while you learn amazing theatre skills.

From play creation, to physical movement, to props and costumes. Learn what it takes to create a performance piece by creating one! We take an in-depth approach to learning important theatre skills and then finish off by performing at the end! (two term class)

Improvisation forms the basis of any good theatre training. It teaches performers to be spontaneous, listen, and to make bold and interesting choices. It leads to amazing scenes with clowning, physical theatre, and an incredibly supportive group atmosphere. Make life-long friends while you learn amazing theatre skills!

Ages 12-18 work together using voice, body, and performance to create their own story. Discover what it takes for a true ensemble to devise a piece of physical theatre right from the very start. Through contact improv, theatre games, and movement learn how to “shape” a story, develop characters, and rehearse it all for your final performance. (two term class)

Improvisation forms the basis of any good theatre training. It teaches performers to be spontaneous, listen, and make bold, creative choices. It leads to amazing scenes with clowning, physical theatre, and an incredibly supportive group atmosphere. Make lifelong friends while you learn amazing theatre skills.

Working with scenes and monologues, you will learn how to interpret scripts, how to play interesting choices, how to listen, and how to be present with our scene partners. It’s never to late to start, and there’s no reason not to continue performing!

NEW!! Building on what you learned in Acting 101, keep on learning more and working on those acting skills. Working once again with scenes, scripts and other techniques, personal performance and development are encouraged and nurtured.

NEW!! Express your wants, thoughts, and ideas in a meaningful and expressive way. Improve the way you communicate, increase comfort speaking in front of others and become better at doing what you do every day.

Working with scenes and monologues, we will interpret scripts, make interesting character choices, provide expression, and be present with our scene partners. It’s never too late to start, or perhaps reignite your love of performing! This class is aimed at those with experience in their life, and life in their step. If you are over age 60, this class is just for you!

Spend the afternoon playing Dungeons & Dragons with a Dungeon Master in a group just for adults. Newcomers are welcome to join us for a day of fun, games, and stories. Come once, or keep coming back to build on your game.

By audition only, working over two terms using scripts (existing or created) on auditioning, interpretation, movement and body technique, and essential performance skills. Students are expected to perform at a higher level and to commit to regular attendance.

By audition only, working over two terms using scripts (existing or created) on auditioning, interpretation, movement and body technique, and essential performance skills. Students are expected to perform at a higher level and to commit to regular attendance. (Completion of Generations I is recommended but not required)

By audition only, this class showcases the high quality of performance of our older students within Persephone School of Theatre, this two term Academy level class develops and refines performance technique. Young performers work at a more advanced level than other classes and focus attention on monologues, auditioning, story-creation, interpretation, movement and body technique. Students are expected to perform at a higher level and to fully commit to regular attendance the same as any other team activity. Generations III is an excellent raining program for those interested future work with Young Company. (Completion of Generations II is recommended, but not required).

This two-term class provides students a unique combination of on-stage performance training, followed by the chance to test their skills in a week-long production on the Persephone Theatre BackStage Stage. Weekly classes begin in the fall of 2020 with rehearsals increasing in 2021. This class serves as an excellent introduction to the world of professional theatre!

NEW!! Let’s tell a story with simple songs, rhymes, and movement. Everything else would be boring right?!

What’s more fun than Musical Theatre? for those who love to sing, dance, and act, Broadway Bound is the place to be during the February break! Learn important vocal, movement, and acting skills while singing songs from your favourite musicals, and finally creating an original musical from your own life-stories!

NEW!! Every book has a story, and the good ones make for great big tales for this short week week of day camp.

NEW!! Can’t wait to see a story come to the screen? Come here and let’s put some life into it. It’s amazing what can be done on phones these days, so we are making use of the ever-present digital world to create recorded versions of stories.

*This camp is not about film-editing or photography, but how we perform once the record button is pressed.

Adults, this is your chance to break out your best moves in musical theatre style. Learn simple numbers from the soundtrack of Broadway.