Bring your lunch, and your questions for the directors of the Acting, Directing, Playwriting, Production & Design|Technical Arts and Set & Costume Design programs!  Take advantage of this opportunity to learn about the programs, meet the directors and some students, and to ask questions in a relaxed, school setting.

Between 2PM and 7PM, students and staff at the school will bring small groups on guided visits through the Saint-Denis pavillion.  Visit the three theatres, Bleviss Family Library, costume shop, Bob shop, courtyards, classrooms, rehearsal rooms and studios housed at 5030 Saint-Denis.

On your way, you will be able to enter and observe certain classes as they happen, depending upon the time of your visit.

Observation Possibilities include: Acting and Improvisation (first and third year Acting Students), Sound: Intro to Design (Production & Design|Technical Arts), and Set and Costume Design project collaboration with Création et Production..

Visits will last approximately 60-75 minutes.

Please note that the last tour will be offered at 6PM. There will be no classes open to observation at that time.

Registration Required, limited places available.  Practice your craft alongside current students in the NTS Playwriting program, the only 3-year conservatory program dedicated to playwriting in Canada.  Enjoy learning by doing in this two-hour workshop taught by Nick Carpenter.  Only pre-registered participants can join this active workshop!

Registration Required, limited places available.  This workshop offers you the opportunity to approach your acting and movement practice as the students in the Acting program do during all three years of their work at NTS!  Come dressed in comfortable clothes to take advantage of this chance to learn with Rebecca Harper, Head of Movement Courses and Core Curriculum, and Quincy Armorer, Director of the Acting Program. Only pre-registered participants can join this active workshop!

This information session is an opportunity to learn about possible financial aid and other support for students accepted to NTS programs. For sixty-five years, the National Theatre School has worked to ensure support for students in need as they pursue their studies by learning and practicing their craft.  Come and learn about the financial aid available at the school, and the process students go through when applying.  NTS is privileged to offer certain named bursary awards to students, current and graduating, thanks to our donors.  This session is offered in French and English simultaneously.

The Monument-National (1893) is the oldest continually operating theatre in Canada, and the place to be for NTS graduating year performances.  Come and discover the massive heart of NTS, exploring the house and backstage of its 800-seat Ludger Duvernay theatre, or its 150-seat blackbox Studio Hydo-Québec, its costume, props and set workshops, its rehearsal rooms, and its quiet corners.

Students will guide small groups in English through its spaces, offering possibilities to linger and watch, listen or even participate in workshops, rehearsals, discussions and activities happening throughout the Monument National, throughout the day.

Tours in English will leave on the hour throughout the day, and will last 60 minutes.  The final English tour will be offered at 3 PM.

See all of the activities on offer in English on Saturday at the Monument-National.  Simply register to join us during the day, so we’ll know to expect you.  Plan your time to visit, and the activities in which you’d like to participate.

We’re looking forward to seeing you!

Come and meet with program Directors to learn about the structure and content of the programs, the admissions and selection process, and ask your questions in person.  Information sessions will happen for all 5 programs at different times and in different spaces at the Monument National during the day.  All Information Sessions will last 60 minutes.  Come to the session that interests you!

10AM – Production Design|Technical Arts – Studio Hydro-Québec

10AM – Playwriting – Le Café

11AM – Directing – Salon Rouge

11AM – Set & Costume Design – Atelier Costume

12PM – Acting – Le Café

2PM – Acting – Le Café

An opportunity to learn alongside current NTS students through play, or observe!  This participatory class will be led by Arianna Bardesono.  No specific registration required, but places will be first come-first serve.  Held in the Rehearsal Studio.

Led by students of Set & Costume Design and Création and Production, come observe or even experience the technical aspects of the working theatre that is the Ludger-Duvernay.

NTS’ fall English production season will open October 21-25 with The Parliament of Birds by Guillermo Verdecchia, directed by Soheil Parsa.

As your tour goes through the scene shop, take a moment to speak with Production Design|Technical Arts students working on the production about the process of building and managing shows through their learning process at NTS.  Learn about the production, one month before its opening night!

Join Thomas Morgan Jones, Artistic Director of the English Section of the NTS, and Program Director of the Directing program, for a discussion with recent graduates on working life after NTS.  An open, honest conversation about professional life as artists and creators since graduation.  Held in the Café.

This information session is an opportunity to learn about possible financial aid and other support for students accepted to NTS programs. For sixty-five years, the National Theatre School has worked to ensure support for students in need as they pursue their studies by learning and practicing their craft.  Come and learn about the financial aid available at the school, and the process students go through when applying.  NTS is privileged to offer certain named bursary awards to students, current and graduating, thanks to our donors.   This session is offered in English, in the Salon Rouge.