Classroom Connections
Classroom Visits bring ATP's professional actors into the classroom. In a familiar environment, students engage the actors in wide-ranging, face-to-face discussion that embraces many aspects of the creative process and the whys and wherefores of being a professional artist.
For more information please contact Alix Laura Woods at 294-7475 or awoods@ATPlive.com.
Teachers Guides
Teachers Guides are produced for select plays each season and are distributed free of charge to those teachers who wish to incorporate some of the content into their curriculum.
If you choose to download any of the Teachers' Guides, we would appreciate hearing your feedback in terms of what you are using them for and have they been beneficial. This helps us evaluate whether to continue posting them on the site. You can email us at askATP@ATPlive.com with your comments. Thank you!
Download instructions: To download the guides, you will need Acrobat Reader. If you don't have Acrobat Reader, you can download it from here.
For Windows users: Right-click link Download the Teachers' Study Guide. Choose "save target as" or "save link as" using the pop-up menu.
For Mac users: Click link Download the Teachers' Guide and hold. Choose "download link to disk" or "save this link as" using the pop-up menu.
Still Desire You Study Guide
Other 2007-2008 Study Guides are coming soon.
For more information please contact Alix Laura Woods at 294-7475 or awoods@ATPlive.com.
Student Matinee Series
ATP offers subsidized tickets to select performances throughout the season, to encourage attendance by young audiences and to extend the theatre experience to those students who may not otherwise be able to attend.
Classroom Connections are made up of three LEGACY Programs. Teachers' Guides, Student Matinees and Classroom Connections are all designed with the school curriculum in mind. Below is information on the Student Matinees offered in the 2007-2008 season.
Notes:
- Tickets are $12 per student
- For every 10 tickets purchased, you will receive one complimentary ticket for use by chaperones
- Classroom visits by the creative artists involved in the production can also be arranged, subject to availability and your class schedule
- Study Guides and Curriculum Links available online here
- Post show chats can be organized upon request
- Scripts are available upon request
Meg Roe in The Syringa Tree by Pamela Gien
Student Matinee
April 9 & 16, 2008 12:00 p.m.
Meet the charismatic character that has captivated audiences world-wide: Elizabeth Grace, a fearless and curious little girl who conjures 22 characters and vividly explores the epic landscape of her South African childhood. One of Canada's brightest and most engaging actors, Meg Roe, returns to the Martha Cohen Theatre with her Betty Mitchell Award winning performance in The Syringa Tree. Through Lizzy's innocence, we experience the hope in the heart-wrenching story of two families torn apart by apartheid.
The Syringa Tree has played to rave reviews around the world and earned a 2001 OBIE Award for Best Play. This celebration of family and survival transformed ATP audiences previously and is not to be missed.
Recommended for Grade 7 up
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Half Life by John Mighton
Student Matinee
May 7 & 14, 2008 12:00 p.m.
Donald and Anna meet in the common room of a nursing home, visiting their widowed parents. Clara is suffering from dementia and Patrick is depressed and withdrawn but they seem to remember each other from the past and happen to have fallen in love. But when this elderly couple begins to talk of marriage, questions arise about the nature of memory, love and age. Life doesn't end when the mind fades or circumstances change, the heart still thrives.
Winner of the 2005 Governor General's Award and Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding New Play, Siminovitch Award-winning playwright John Mighton has created one of the most acclaimed Canadian works of this decade. Don't miss out on this extraordinary dramatic achievement that has won the hearts of audiences world-wide.
Recommended for Grade 10 up
For more information please contact Alix Laura Woods at 294-7475 or awoods@ATPlive.com.
Classroom Connections is made possible through the generous support of the following corporations and foundations:
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