History
Heritage Pavilion Stage is the brainchild of Peterborough playwright Ed Schroeter. The young audience historical theatre project was born in January 2000 when he approached Arbor Theatre with the concept. Together they approached the Peterborough Centennial Museum & Archives (PCMA) and proposed a collaboration. The PCMA education department agreed in August of 2000. The curtain rose on the project's first play on May 8, 2001. Since then, the project has produced more than six environmentally staged young audience history plays, evolving into a separate entity with its own board of directors. The rest, as they say, is history ...
Ed Schroeter received the Peterborough Historical Society's J. Hampden Heritage Award in 2002 for the development of Heritage Pavilion Stage and the Samuel Armour Award in 2004 for his work as a writer and producer of historical theatre productions. In July 2004 he was inducted into the Peterborough Pathway of Fame.
Mandate, Mission, and Vision
Mandate
The mandate of Heritage Pavilion Stage is to rigorously question, probe, and challenge deeply held and commonly accepted assumptions about Canadian culture and heritage through the development and presentation of original, new environmentally staged, iconclastic Canadian history and current events plays and school tours.
Mission
Our mission is to commission, develop, and produce passionate, thoughtful, literate, iconoclastic, and original Canadian works of artistic excellence for youth and young audiences. We are committed to presenting this work in a politically responsible and culturally sensitive manner.
Artistic Vision
Our Artistic Vision is to produce innovative and environmentally staged plays, multi-disciplinary works, and/or school tours written in clear language in the idiom of contemporary youth, which are relevant to their lives and which resonate with them.
A Snapshot of Heritage Pavilion Stage
Based in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada, Heritage Pavilion Stage is a not-for-profit young audience theatre company which specializes in environmentally staged productions and school tours of new, iconoclastic Canadian historical and current events scripts.
We are a project-based company which produces two to three works annually in the fall, winter, and spring. We often produce our work in association with other arts and/or heritage organizations.
