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We all know the story of Cinderella, but in this program, students will work with our theatre professionals to create and perform the original story of Prairie Cinders, a Saskatoon teen who wants to go to the Summer Celebration Dance Party. In order to make their dreams come true, they need a little magical and musical help from their friends. Students will perform this show at the end of the week as part of our summer program wind up!

Students will spend the week immersed in improv activities, storytelling, games, prop making, devised scenes and FUN. There will be a final week ending interactive celebration for family and friends!

Back by popular demand, this is the camp dedicated to live action role play (LARP), including professional fight choreography, inspired by Dungeons and Dragons. We will dedicate the afternoon portion of the program to actual D ad D games! There will be a live action role play and battle demonstration as part of our week ending activities!

Students will design and create original masks and cos-play creations using different mediums each day. Students will then use their designs to develop characters, stories and scenes that will be performed for family and friends at our COS Play & MASKerade celebration at the end of the week!

For our 5 to 7 year olds –  PJ Masks, Trolls, Fairy Tale Characters will be introduced to explore and transform into your favorite characters with a little help from a mask. Students will make and create masks and use these characters to develop short stories to share at the end of the week in our MASKerade Celebration for family and friends.

Students will explore the art form of drag and drag history in this one-week program that promotes self-expression. Students will learn how to apply make-up and create or further develop their drag persona through movement and performance which will be shared in a week ending celebration for families and friends.

The new Musical Academy is excited to have a program especially for Mini Munchkins who would like to join us for our mainstage summer production of The Wizard of Oz July 28th and 29th.   Students will sing, dance and act during their week with us, AND will join the cast as part of the show! Our yellow brick road leads to confidence, friendships and unforgettable memories.  Working with our experienced theatre professionals, this is a great introduction to musical theatre and performance.   Enrollment is limited!

Persephone Theatre School is proud to launch the new Musical Academy Program, which is PERFECT for students interested in triple threat (acting, voice, movement) training. Rehearse for a full three weeks, as if you were in a professional production, and perform the Golden Age Classic, The Wizard of Oz on Persephone Theatre’s mainstage during our midsummer celebration weekend! The professional training you will receive along our yellow brick road leads to confidence, friendships, and unforgettable memories! The cast will perform in three shows, July 28th and 29th. For an information package OR to arrange payment in installments please email lorna.b@persephonetheatre.org.

Students will use their imaginations to develop comic book scenes with felt boards and then improvise and devise their stories into performance scenes. Heroes, villains, and various character types will be explored on the page and on the stage and then shared with family and friends in our week ending celebration. In addition to working with our theatre professionals on story development, games and acting techniques, students will also get to build props and other elements to use in their performance. This is a fun introduction to storytelling and acting.

Based on a collection of whimsical poems by Phillip Van Wagoner, Could You Hug A Cactus? is a musical revue that follows a group of kids as they come together to create a show that’s bursting with poems and creativity. One by one, they each share their imaginative creations, until a nervous performer panics and refuses to contribute a poem.  Will friendship save the day?   Working with our theatre professionals, students will work on voice, movement and acting as they transform this one act production from the page to the stage.