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Are you under 30? You are in the right place!
August 29, 2024Young and less young are welcome at French Theatre! Whether you have a few gray hairs or not, we await you with shows for absolutely all tastes. And if you’re under 30, it’s even better: a ticket will only cost you $15 – isn’t that wonderful?! Are you a teen? You’re in the perfect…
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Theatre for young audiences: A present for everyone
July 26, 2024An integral part of the National Arts Centre, French Theatre’s Children and Youth programming will soon have a new Associate Artistic Director. After more than a decade in the role, the incomparable Mélanie Dumont will be moving on to new and exciting challenges elsewhere, but the vitality…
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Creation as an act of friction
May 15, 2024We have so much to update you on at the National Creation Fund. This month marks two new investments and an exciting list of Fund-supported shows on tour, including an unprecedented FIVE premieres. Also, the NAC’s 2024-2025 season was just launched! It features a record-setting ten…
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The NAC returns to the Salon du livre de l’Outaouais
February 8, 2024We are pleased to be partnering with the Salon du livre de l’Outaouais for the first time since 2020, when the pandemic forced the collaboration to be put on hold. There’s a full schedule of events planned for this important cultural landmark, which will be taking place from February 22 to…
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Catherine Vidal on the creation of La mouette (The Seagull)
November 6, 2023Dear friends of French Theatre, So many things have been considered, put in place and tried out for the production of La mouette (The Seagull) since I wrote to you last January that this brief letter won’t be enough to cover them all. (By the way, in order to make the best use of the…
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L’ombre: “A Person Takes Flight…”
September 25, 2023Mani Soleymanlou’s second season at the helm of NAC French Theatre opens with L’ombre [The Shadow], a collective creation by the 2023 Collective. Initiated by Soleymanlou, the Collective is an annual project designed to broaden the horizons of the next generation of artists by giving them…
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Professional Development: Two “Vitrine sur l’admin” Mentees at the NAC
July 21, 2023As part of its “Vitrine sur l’admin” mentorship program, the National Arts Centre (NAC) had the pleasure of welcoming two enthusiastic mentees this spring: Shannon Lacroix and Kevin Monchaux. The aim of the program, set up by the Association des théâtres francophones du Canada (ATFC) and…
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A letter from Catherine Vidal, artist in residence
January 29, 2023Dear friends of French Theatre, My name is Catherine Vidal and I’m a director. At the invitation of the NAC’s new artistic director, Mani Soleymanlou, I’ll be the NAC French Theatre artist in residence this season and next. Is it because I’ve been inspired by my reading of Anton Chekhov’s…
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Chansons pour le musée: Multifaceted experience
November 29, 2022Creating theatre with and for young audiences After the show, the podcast and the performance, Karine Sauvé’s work Chansons pour le musée is now available as a multifaceted experience for students and teachers. A video recording of the show, a teaching guide and a spontaneous writing…
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A fond farewell to Heather Moore
May 18, 2022Heather Moore has always felt like she had the best job in the world. As Executive Producer of the National Creation Fund, and before that of the NAC’s biennial Scenes festivals, she got to learn about Canada through its artists. “It has been a privilege to work with so many Canadian…
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La chambre des enfants or the gap between dream and reality!
April 7, 2022Is it a forest? A troubled sea? Piles of sheets or big rocks? You can stop wondering: it’s simply La chambre des enfants, a play performed entirely by young actors ages 8 to 11. Under the direction of Anne-Marie Ouellet of L’Eau du bain theatre company, these young artists show us their…
