Collective in the Classroom: Creating Theatre in Secondary School Collaboration Projects (Report‪)‬

Canadian Beginnings: Collective Creation as Documentary Theatre Collective creation has enjoyed an important position in the Canadian theatre tradition. Alan Filewod identifies Paul Thompson, then artistic director of Theatre Passe Muraille, as the first director to use this term in 1972 to describe his process for involving actors in the creation of plays. Thompson and his company went beyond the then popular documentary style as they attempted to characterize Canada's history and culture through original theatre pieces based on source material they explored through the lens of their own experiences (Filewod 22).