Theatre for Young Audiences Symposium
Join us on November 6 for an afternoon of conversation about youth theatre in Alberta
Our team at Theatre Prospero invites you to join us on Friday, November 6, 2026 at the Alberta Avenue Community Centre for our symposium with TYA leaders and artists from Edmonton and across Alberta to connect, discuss, and share our recent experiences performing and touring TYA shows in 2026.
Thanks to generous funding from the Edmonton Community Foundation, attending our afternoon symposium is free to all members of the community. The symposium schedule will consist of:
12:30 PM - Doors open at the Alberta Avenue Community Centre. Light refreshments will be available
12:45 PM - Symposium welcome and introductions
1:00 PM - An introduction to, and participatory performance of, Theatre Prospero’s hyper-interactive touring production of THE DOOMED PRINCE, where the audience plays all the parts!
1:50 PM - Short break with refreshments
2:00 PM - Group discussion of current trends and topics relevant to TYA companies and artists in 2026 (Topics to be announced soon), facilitated by Ameley Quaye, Ph.D. student in Performance Studies at the University of Alberta.
2:50 PM - Symposium wrap up
About the Show
About the Show: The Doomed Prince
An Egyptian Prince is doomed to die by Snake, Dog, or Crocodile! Can he escape his cursed fate?
Performed at schools around Edmonton, the Thousand Faces Festival, AND Edmonton’s Green Shack Program, Theatre Prospero’s actors guide students as they play all the parts in an epic Egyptian story and resolve the millenia-old cliffhanger. Engaging and quirky, the narrators lead students through their dialogue and action, creating an accessible and entertaining experience!
Speakers
Speaker: Abigail “Ameley” Quaye
Abigail “Ameley” Quaye is a Ghanaian Theatre Artist with specialties in Playwriting, Directing, Dramaturgy and Performance Studies. She locates her works within Afrocentric paradigms, Indigenous philosophies and pedagogies, African cosmology, spirituality and worldview, postcolonial politics of resistance, and decolonial thoughts. Her background in playwriting and directing stem from conventional training in the classroom and through mentorship under renowned Ghanaian and Canadian playwrights and directors/theatre makers. Ameley seeks to delve into the soul of African Aesthetic expressions of tradition and rituals through literary works and performance. Her current research focus is on Women and negotiated performance spaces through the lens of postcolonial resistance.