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Friday, March 21, 2014 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Small Acts of Repair Toward Mental Helath: Information and Conversation

The Department of Drama and Speech Communication will host a symposium of invited experts to speak about mental health issues and awareness at the University of Waterloo and in the broader Waterloo region.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Algorithmyth

The starting point for the performance is an investigation of the stock market - traditionally a place where probability, ritual and intuition collide.  Increasingly, it has become the domain of algorithmic approaches, where decisions are made at speeds far beyond human capacity to evaluate or intervene.  Eventually the scope of the project will expand to include other aspects of contemporary capitalist culture where algorithms are having an increasingly deterministic effect, where algorithms approach mythic status and shape all manner of relationships, notions of value and thought.

Saturday, February 7, 2015 10:00 am - 3:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Meisner Technique Repetition Exercise Workshop

“This workshop will give participants an introduction to one of the most effective techniques used to train contemporary actors throughout North America.  The Repetition Exercise was developed by Sanford Meisner, one of America’s leading acting teachers of the 20th Century and touches on many of the fundamental elements of good acting.  Like a musician practices scales when learning how to play a musical instrument, the Repetition Exercise is used to build awareness of all of the acting basics, including sense of play, listening, working with impulses, reacting, public solitude,

Friday, June 19, 2015 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Henry the Sixth Part I

Rarely performed and little known, the first play in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy is more than a simple preface to the more famous, substantive pieces that follow it.  Hugely popular in its day and featuring memorable characters – brave Talbot, Joan of Arc – deemed worthy of mention in accounts by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Henry the Sixth, Part I

Saturday, June 20, 2015 8:00 pm - 8:00 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Henry the Sixth Part I

Rarely performed and little known, the first play in Shakespeare’s first tetralogy is more than a simple preface to the more famous, substantive pieces that follow it.  Hugely popular in its day and featuring memorable characters – brave Talbot, Joan of Arc – deemed worthy of mention in accounts by Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Henry the Sixth, Part I

Wednesday, November 18, 2015 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Unity (1918)

  • Written by Kevin Kerr
  • Directed by Andy Houston
  • Set & Props designed by Madeline Samms
  • Costumes designed by Mark Haasnoot
  • Lighting designed by Arun Srinivasan
  • Sound designed by Colin Labadie
  • ​Music composed by Megh