Classes

Listen thoughtfully and become aware of your audience. Be creative, and respond without over-thinking. See your story lived out through improvisations and body movement. Guide your tale through the exploration of a character mask that you will create.

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! We have just over three weeks to go through the process of the audition, the practice, the creation, and putting the show on its feet. Parts are assigned by audition, those not chosen to perform will be working on costumes, production, lights and sound, and may be a part of chorus or ensemble work. The play is TBA, consistent attendance is required.

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.

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 2019 with rehearsals increasing in 2020. This class serves as an excellent introduction to the world of professional theatre!

This class showcases the high quality of performance of our oldest youth class within the Persephone School of Theatre. In this two term Academy Level class, young performers develop the essential skills of theatre at a more advanced level and the ensemble focuses on monologues, auditioning, story-creation, script interpretation, movement and body technique, and essential performance skills. Near the end of the winter term, the ensemble performs within two schools around the city as well as their final performance for friends and family. This class is an excellent training program for those interested in future work with Young Company! Completion of Generations II is recommended, but not required.

This group works largely within a scripted environment on auditioning, interpretation, movement and body technique, and essential performance skills. Students are expected to perform at a higher level than regular classes, and there is a final performance for their friends and families. Completion of Generations I is recommended, but not required

This group works largely within a scripted environment on auditioning, interpretation, movement and body technique, and essential performance skills. Students are expected to perform at a higher level than regular classes, and there is a final performance for their friends and families.

Consider this a class within your regular school day, except that it’s 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 improv, devised creation, script work, and much more in this fun class and finish their term with a performance for their families.

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!

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, we 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 too late to start, or perhaps reignite your love of performing!

Your voice. Your body. Your stories. Explore 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

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.

Your voice. Your body. Your stories. 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)

From play creation to physical movement to props and costumes, this full year class explores what it takes to create a new play by…creating one! We take an indepth approach to learning important theatre skills and then finish off by performing the play in our BackStage Stage! (Two term class)

Game playing, performance creation and building awareness of the body on stage; all this and having fun is what Stage Explorations is about! Join the fun, create and express in this winter for 10 & 11 year olds.

Improv leads to all things amazing! Comedy, physical theatre and game-playing! Learn new drama skills, become a creative genius, follow your impulses and make life-long friends! Say what you feel, mean what you say. Simply by playing improv. That’s right. Improv.

Take story telling to a new level with this new full year class! 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 of the year! (Two term class)

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!

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!

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!

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!