Student Matinee Performances

Make Them Love Us (or we are toast) is designed to engage students across multiple disciplines, supporting learning outcomes in Drama and English as well as examining themes central to the following subjects:  

• Music: Original live music is an integral part of Gargantua’s theatrical language. Students can consider how rhythm, melody, vocal composition, sound, and musical structure contribute to meaning, atmosphere, and storytelling. Gargantua’s work deliberately integrates music with movement, text, and technology. 
• Media Arts / Communications Technology: This production asks students to think about technology not merely as a subject but as something that shapes human experience and communication.
• Computer Science/Technological Education: This show provides an accessible cultural and ethical context for thinking about AI, technological change, human-machine relationships, agency, and the consequences of increasingly capable technologies. It isn’t a technical lesson in AI, but it creates a strong basis for discussion about technology’s social implications.
• Civics & Citizenship: The question of how much agency humans retain as technology becomes increasingly powerful lends itself to discussions about responsibility, collective decision-making, social consequences, power, and the kind of future society we want to create.
• Philosophy: The production’s central question – What happens when humans create something that may become more capable than ourselves? – opens directly into questions of consciousness, personhood, agency, ethics, knowledge, and what it means to be human.

Make Them Love Us (or we are toast) will challenge students to think critically about how we, as a society, engage with our technology. Your students will gain valuable insights not just as spectators, but as engaged participants in the discourse about human interaction and societal change.

To bring students and educators into our creative process we offer:

• Q&A sessions with our artists after every student matinee performance
• Comprehensive study guide for each production
• In-School workshops as an add-on to bring professional artists to your classroom.  These workshops are perfect for groups of up to 25. Students explore physical theatre, voice, and text, and get the opportunity to learn from our experienced multi-disciplinary artists. 

“What a remarkable show! Wow! Am I ever glad that I could bring my students to this show. I wish the cast could have been a fly on the wall listening to the students unpacking the ideas, images, symbolisms, etc. Congrats to you and your company for making a show which feeds big imagination and unleashes the power of critical thinking and big questions, and…so so much more! What amazing work! You have inspired my students.” – C. Boutilier, Drama Teacher, North Toronto CI, Toronto District School Board (re: Avaricious)