As you and your students return to class for a new season of excitement and learning, we at Heritage Pavilion Stage are preparing to launch our sixth full season of innovative and curriculum-linked historical and current events school tour plays.
This season we will be touring one national award-winning Canadian history play and one World Premiere Canadian history play to schools in our region. Both are specially geared to engage and motivate students to read -- including young male readers.
Heritage Pavilion Stage based in Peterborough Ontario Canada is a Peterborough young audience historical theatre company which specializes in school tours, environementally staged dramas, and arts education programs for youth.
October 30 to November 17, 2006
Fire in the Stable
Written by Ed Schroeter
Directed by Kim Blackwell
It is 1759 in Quebec City. On the eve of battle, General James Wolfe, sick with fever
and burning with ambition and frustration, conjures up the spirit of his enemy
to help him achieve a stunning victory. Instead, French commander Louis-Joseph
Montcalm rises from Wolfe's conscience and forces him to confront the horrors
that he is inflicting on the civilians of Quebec City. A highly theatrical and gripping
historical fantasy. Winner, Third Prize, Canadian National One-Act
Playwriting Competition, January 15, 1999.
This play is appropriate for Remembrance Day week.
SUITABLE for Grades 6 to 12.
Supports Ontario Ministry of Education Curriculum
Grade 7 History , New France.
Seven Years' War in North America
Impact of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham
Treaty of Paris and the Quebec Act from the English and French
Heritage Pavilion Stage has been offered the rare opportunity to produce the
World Premiere of a new young audience black history play, "Once A Flame" by
renowned Peterborough playwright, actor, musician and director Beau Dixon.
It's April 10, 1734. The Old City of Montreal is burning to the ground.
A 29-year old slave woman, Marie Joseph Angelique, stands accused of the
deed. This true story is a compelling examination of a strong and independent
woman's fight for freedom and respect, and tellingly reveals her struggle to
achieve her rights as an individual.
Written by acclaimed black Canadian playwright Beau Dixon, author of "From Here to Africville" and directed by Heritage Pavilion Stage's new artistic director, Phil Oakley, this new play documents and brings to life a little known story in the annals of Canadian history. Considered one of the earliest slave narratives in Canada, the play is based on court transcripts which record Marie Joseph's own testimony, and derives much of its dramatic impact from her relationships with the fve other characters.
SUITABLE for Grades 5 to 12
SupportsOntarioMinistryofEducationCurriculum: Grade 7 (New France); Grade 8 (Canada as a changing society); Grade 9 & 10 (diversity); Grade 11 & 12 (injustice & tolerance)
Performances include a Question and Answer session with the cast
An optional free study guide containing cross-curricular, reproducible activities and background information for students and teachers is also included
