It’s Zuppa’s triumphant return to Eastern Front Theatre’s STAGES Festival! Though we can’t be together in person, we can still pop online, pour ourselves our drink of choice, hunker down and debate the true nature of love. Zuppa brings you the *live*, online version of its acclaimed Pop-Up Love Party, which was first workshopped in…
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This summer, The Ecology Action Centre (EAC) is celebrating their fiftieth anniversary with “50 Things: a province wide, interactive art adventure”. The fifty things will be commissioned pieces of art inspired by stories, people, places and themes relevant to the EAC, and is being curated and created in association with Zuppa Theatre Co. The art pieces…
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We are sad to announce that Pop-Up Love Party‘s 2-week run as part of Luminato 2020 has been cancelled, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Luminato will be offering online content instead of the 2020 festival. Stay tuned for more information about Zuppa’s contribution to that online content. We also regret to announce that The Archive…
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We are very pleased to announce that The Archive of Missing Things will be part of the WOW Collection in Barrie, Ontario this April. Click below to read about this exciting new program of work, produced by the one and only Talk is Free Theatre. https://www.thewowcollection.ca/ “The WOW Collection is unlike any other festival in…
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Vista is an app-guided walking tour and a window to another place. Launching this fall in Torquay UK, it will take participants on a walk from the land to the sea, with stops along the way to take in specific views of the town and its surroundings. Is it an escape, or a sanctuary? Or perhaps…
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The Archive of Missing Things played from August 13 to 17 as part of the Summerworks Festival’s Presentation Series, which features contemporary performance from across Canada. The sold-our run took place at Toronto’s Sanderson Library and we had a great time at both the festival and library. Toronto: we hope to be back soon. At…
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The inaugural Harbinger Emerging Artist Showcase took place on August 14th and 15th, 2019. Thanks to everyone who made it possible and came to see these wonderful emerging artists at work in their original creation F.I.S.H. The Harbinger Emerging Artist Showcase — a crash course in performance creation — is a new experiment by Zuppa…
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One of Halifax’s most anticipated musical events of the year is back! Zuppa’s 12th Annual Concert at The Music Room ONE NIGHT ONLY Thursday June 20th 2019 Doors at 7:30 Music Starts at 8:00 The Music Room – 6181 Lady Hammond Rd. CHUFFED – Local Musicians sing songs from a Not-So-United-Kingdom. Featuring some of Halifax’s best…
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Zuppa’s 11th Annual Music Room Concert Featuring: Museum Pieces, Stewart Legere, Erin Costelo, Tara Thorne, The Heavy Blinkers, Terra Spencer, T. Thomason, Cactus Flower The Music Room – 6181 Lady Hammond Rd. Thursday June 14th 2018. Tickets Hosted by comedian, actor, lawyer and father Bob Mann Cash Bar featuring: Garrison Brewing Co. and [yellow tail]…
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The 2018 Zuppa Summer Student Apprentices (Assistant Producer; 2 positions) WHO The Participant must be an individual who: -will be between 15 and 30 years of age (inclusive) on June 25th 2018 -was registered as a full-time student during the preceding academic year; -intends to return to school on a full-time basis during the next…
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ONE NIGHT ONLY Friday April 20th 7:00pm – 1:00am Murphy’s on the Water – The Cable Wharf Featuring the return of POP-UP LOVE PARTY Doors: 7:00pm Pop-Up Love Party 7:30pm – 9:30pm Z20 After-Party Dance 9:30pm – 1:00am Audience members must be 19 years or older…just like Zuppa! Zuppa Theatre Celebrates 20 Years! Halifax-based Zuppa…
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The Deposition of Harbour Pilot Francis Mackey A site-specific, verbatim theatre performance Part of the HRM’s Halifax Explosion 100th Anniversary Commemorations In the room where it happened On the days it took place With the words that were spoken 100 years ago December 16th and 17th 2017 – 2:00pm and 7:30pm The Halifax Provincial Court…
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We are excited to officially announce This is Nowhere, our September 2018 ambient street performance, and one of 200 exceptional projects funded through the Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program. Capping our 20th season, This is Nowhere will be the largest Zuppa project to date. Explore the city’s past and present, and imagine…
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Zuppa’s Annual Team 100 Membership Drive Please, Join Us! If you loved Slowly I Turn, Pop-Up Love Party and The Archive of Missing Things and want to help support Zuppa’s next great creation, join Team 100 before June 30th. Support from our members helps us create, perform, teach and tour. As our 2017-18 season approaches, we invite…
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The Archive of Missing Things is theatre unlike anything you have ever seen. At a table in a library with a wireless headset and an iPad, you get to be a sleuth in an online mystery. You choose your own path, and clues are everywhere – in the library all around you and in the…
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On November 24, Zuppa Theatre Co will launch a brand new soup cookbook, filled with amazing recipes from friends, family and fans of Zuppa, as well as some incredible chefs, and other special contributors. Please join us at NSCAD’s Art Bar for a gala soup dinner featuring soups and breads from some of Halifax’s best…
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CBC’s Mainstreet’s Moira Donovan previews Zuppa Theatre’s remount of the Pop-Up Love Party by hosting a conversation with Stewart Legere and Dr. Eli Diamond. Read “Pop-Up Love Party brings Plato and pizza to Halifax’s north end” below, or at cbc.ca. Greek philosophers and good wine might seem like a pairing more suited to antiquity than the present…
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Wanderlust: Songs from the Road is the 9th annual Music Room concert and silent auction in support of Zuppa Theatre Co. Wanderlust: Songs from the Road is sold out, however tickets may come available closer to the date. If you would like to be placed on a waiting list, please email info@zuppatheatre.com, or try your luck…
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Zuppa Theatre Co is pleased to name Jessica Barry as our Education Associate at Armbrae Academy. Jessica is well-known to the Armbrae community, co-directing the annual Shakespeare Festival and writing and directing adaptations of The Never Ending Story, Mary Poppins, A Little Princess and Anne of Green Gables for grades primary-6. This year, Jessica will…
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Elizabeth Amos, Nicholas Leno, Hayley Malouin, and Alex Jackson review Pop-Up Love Party at the In the Soil Festival in St. Catharines, Ontario. Read “A Vivid Exclamation: Zuppa Theatre’s Pop-Up Love Party is a Love Story for Everyone” below, or at dartcritics.com. On a frigid April night, La Scala Ristorante burned hot with talk of…
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This spring, Zuppa Theatre Co. hits the road with the deep and delicious Pop-Up Love Party. First up is In the Soil Arts Festival, a three-day explosion of music, media, theatre, dance, installations, and out-of-the-box performance experiences in St. Catharines, Ontario. La Scala Ristorante will host Pop-Up Love Party–including head chef Dennis Johnston–for performances April…
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Laura Oakley, a.k.a. halifood, reviews the world premiere of Pop-Up Love Party. Read “Zuppa Theatre: Pop-Up Love Party at Lion & Bright” below, or at halifaxbloggers.ca. On opening night for Zuppa Theatre‘s Pop-up Love Party we snuck in just a few minutes before the scheduled start time, grabbing two seats at the bar in a…
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Mel Hattie, documentary storyteller, photographed the world premiere of Pop-Up Love Party. Read “Zuppa Theatre’s Pop-Up Love Party at Lion and Bright in Halifax” below, or at melhattie.com. View photos here, or at melhattie.com. Eros, philia, love and desire served up in a seven-course snacks menu designed by a Michelin-starred chef while Zuppa Theatre reinvents…
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Meghan Hubley reviews the world premiere of Pop-Up Love Party for The Globe and Mail. Read “Halifax’s Pop-Up Love Party pairs Plato with palate-pleasing cuisine” below, or at theglobeandmail.com. If any theatre company were going to adapt and stage The Symposium, Plato’s philosophical text on love, I’d hope it would be a brazenly inventive group,…
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Bocado Blog’s self-processed “food-and-drink-lovers” Kim Humes and Toni Abdo review the world premiere of Pop-Up Love Party. Read “Love Fest at Lion & Bright” below, or at bocadoblog.tumblr.com. Last night at Lion & Bright, we attended the premiere of Zuppa Theatre’s Pop Up Love Party – a unique and up-close culinary slash theatre experience. I…
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On the eve of the world premiere of Pop-Up Love Party, executive chef Daniel Burns and director Alex McLean dish about the collaboration to The Chronicle Herald’s Bill Spurr. Read “Eat, drink and be philosophical with Zuppa” below, or at thechronicleherald.ca. Even the people presenting the Pop-Ip Love Party have a little trouble defining it….
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One week before the world premiere of Pop-Up Love Party, director Alex McLean and executive chef Daniel Burns talk to The Coast’s Melissa Buote about the latest food show from Zuppa Theatre Co. Read “Flavour of love” below, or at thecoast.ca. “A lot of people don’t actually know this, but the word ‘symposium’ in ancient…
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The deadline for submissions of erotic art, to be displayed at Lion & Bright from March 10 to 31, has been extended to 5:00 PM on Monday, March 9. Zuppa Theatre Co. is seeking submissions of erotic art for the world premiere of Pop-Up Love Party at Lion & Bright, running from March 19 to…
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Zuppa Theatre Co. combines the surprising ideas of a 2400-year-old drinking party with the sensory creations of a homegrown Michelin-starred chef in their new production, Pop-Up Love Party, March 19-29, 2015 at Halifax’s Lion & Bright Café Wine Bar. Pop-Up Love Party reimagines Plato’s Symposium in its quest to define love with all its plagues…
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Zuppa Theatre Co. is seeking submissions of erotic art for the world premiere of Pop-Up Love Party in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Based on Plato’s Symposium, the latest creation from this award-winning performance ensemble is a discussion of and tribute to the many forms of erotic love. Eros is defined in myriad ways in the play,…
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Amanda Campbell in her blog TWISI: The Way I See It Theatre Blog reviews Tiny Vaudevilles. Read ‘The Zuppa Sillies & Chekhov Vaudevilles” below or at TWISI. Anton Chekhov, perhaps most well known for his doleful Three Sisters who never make it to Moscow and his Cherry Orchard that never gets saved, always insisted that…
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Elissa Bernard of the Chronicle Herald reviews Tiny Vaudevilles. Read “Theatre review: Zuppa sparkles in Chekhov vaudevilles” below or at The Chronicle Herald. Zuppa Theatre Co. doesn’t often play purely for laughs. It goes right for the funny bone in Tiny Vaudevilles: Two Short Plays by Anton Chekhov, a two-hour evening of drama, song, jokes…
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Kate Watson of The Coast reviews Tiny Vaudevilles. Read the article below or at The Coast Zuppa Theatre’s Tiny Vaudevilles is deceptively simple and definitely delightful. It plays on the idea of “vaudeville” by incorporating two of Chekhov’s funny and astute one-act farces (called vaudevilles) into the vaudeville variety-show format . This gives the talented…
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Thanks, The Coast, Halifax’s Weekly, for naming “Uncle Oscar’s Experiment” your #1 theatre experience this year. Congratulations to Halifax on another full year of theatre! “1. Uncle Oscar’s Experiment (Zuppa Theatre Co.): Quirky, brilliant and gorgeous, this 10th anniversary remount showcased exactly why Zuppa has made an enduring name for itself on the Halifax theatre…
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Short Presents blogs about her experience watching Uncle Oscar’s Experiment. Read “Zuppa Theatre Presents: Uncle Oscar’s Experiment (a review)” below or on her blog Short Presents. Pleasantly macabre, and musically delightful, Zuppa Theatre’s “Uncle Oscar’s Experiment” is not to be missed! I realize that be beginning of that statement is slightly an ironic, but blog…
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Jen Ochej in her blog Sea Legs Collective reviews Uncle Oscar’s Experiment. Read “Uncle Oscar’s Experiment, presented by Zuppa Theatre Co.” below or on her blog,Sea Legs Collective. We don’t often talk about non-music-specific stuff here on Sea Legs, and with good reason– we’re a music blog. However, sometimes something comes up that feels like…
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Amanda Campbell reviews Uncle Oscar’s Experiment in her blog TWISI: Theatre Blog. Read “Uncle Oscar’s Experiment: 10 years later & still defying death” below or on TWISI. The 10th Anniversary production of Zuppa Theatre’s Uncle Oscar’s Experiment is an imaginative and delightful Expressionistic exploration of the traditions of the Grand Guignol and solidifies theatrically and…
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Elissa Barnard reviews Uncle Oscar’s Experiment. Read “Theatre review: Uncle Oscar stirs up frenetic fun” below or at The Chronicle Herald. Much like Uncle Oscar himself, Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Uncle Oscar’s Experiment is a mad scientist’s brew of music, dance, theatre and fairy tale. The unusual, hour-long show, first performed outdoors in 2003, is fun,…
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Kate Watson reviews Uncle Oscar’s Experiment. Read the article below or at The Coast. Gorgeous. Clever. Horrifying. Fantastical. Fun. These are all adjectives that could be used to describe Zuppa Theatre’s 10th anniversary remount of Uncle Oscar’s Experiment. The production is a beautifully choreographed feat of physical theatre, a hummable, strum-able musical mash-up (with a…
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Stephanie Johns talks with Zuppa about the 10 year anniversary production of Uncle Oscar’s Experiment. Read “Oscar’s Ballad” below or at The Coast. Zuppa Theatre Co. presents a milestone production—a 10 year anniversary remount of Uncle Oscar’s Experiment (October 10-20, Fort Massey United Church, 5303 Tobin Street, uncleoscar.eventbrite.com), and lucky you gets to witness how…
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Elissa Barnard talks with Zuppa on the remounting of Uncle Oscar’s Experiment. Read “Uncle Oscar stages comeback” below or at The Chronicle Herald Zuppa Theatre Co. enjoyed doing Uncle Oscar’s Experiment so much 10 years ago, it’s doing it again. “Every once in a while you feel you nail it,” says Alex McLean, director and…
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We are happy to announce that our hit show Uncle Oscar’s Experiment will be ressurected for a special 10th Anniversary Edition production! Originally created in 2003, the show is about Felicity Luckless – a girl who brings bad luck to everything and everyone she encounters. Part clown show, part musical and part grand guignol bloody…
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Amanda Campbell in her blog TWISI:The Way I See It Theatre Blog reviews The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions. Read “Zuppa Attains Gigantick Emotions” below or on TWISI. The first thing that struck me upon entering the Neptune Scotiabank Studio Theatre for Zuppa Theatre’s production of The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions, which closes there tonight, was the gorgeously…
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Kate Watson of The Coast reviews The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions. Read her review below or at The Coast. There’s no doubt that lives are made up of moments mundane and momentous, but for the most part, plays are written about the latter. In The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions, Zuppa Theatre pushes out of that theatrical envelope…
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Elissa Barnard of the Chronicle Herald reviews The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions. Read the review below or on The Chronicle Herald. In its 15 years, Zuppa Theatre Co. has featured an actor eating on a giant, raw onion, a fog-filled subterranean space, a ceiling of hanging records, dense music, intense physicality and highly theatrical storytelling. And…
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“Zuppa Theatre Company won outstanding production for Slowly I Turn: A Parlour Vaudeville in One Act, a play Stone created about fathers and sons in which he starred with his father, John. The play was performed in the living room of Stone and Hamilton’s rented Halifax apartment.” To read more about the night, read Andrea…
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Celebrating 15 years of evocative, dynamic, and utterly original theatre, Halifax’s Zuppa Theatre Co. will premiere their newest creation, The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions, April 12–21, 2013 at the Scotiabank Studio Theatre as part of the Neptune Theatre Open Spaces Program. The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions follows a military translator as he returns to Halifax from Afghanistan to…
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Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Slowly I Turn: a parlor vaudeville in one act won the Theatre Nova Scotia Robert Merritt Award for Outstanding Production on Monday night. Conceived by Ben Stone, the show was nominated for six awards, including Outstanding New Play, and also won for Outstanding Set Design (Leesa Hamilton). This marks the second Outstanding…
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How are audiences captivated, texts animated, theatres brought to life? What can an actor do to light up a stage? Seek Electricity! is Zuppa Theatre Co.’s inaugural two-week workshop for excited aspiring actors. The result of more than a decade’s work together, our approach to performance combines physical and vocal training, a spirit of restless…
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Dear lovers and loners, Thanks for bearing with us. We’re calling off The Gigantick Lovesick Serenade tonight – but all is not lost! We’re only postponing the concert. Mark your calendars for Saturday, March 16, when lovers and loners will be reunited at The Music Room. We’ll have the same silent auction items, the same…
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“Starting tonight, don’t miss the limited run of the acclaimed play”. Stephanie Johns talks to Sue Leblanc-Crawford about the upcoming production of The Debacle. Read “The Debacle’s back” below or at The Coast. Running November 15 to 18 at Armbrae Academy (1400 Oxford Street, Nov. 15-18, 8pm and Nov. 17-18, 2:30pm, info@zuppatheatre.com) is Zuppa Theatre’s…
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Elissa Barnard talks with Sue Leblanc-Crawford about The Debacle‘s return to the stage.Read “One-woman play The Debacle restaged for short Halifax run” below or at The Chronicle Herald. Zuppa Theatre Co. is calling its remount of The Debacle the “always-a-bridesmaid” limited run. That’s because the one-woman play, co-written by actor Susan Leblanc-Crawford and director Ann-Marie…
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The ever-dynamic Zuppa Theatre is staging a special, Always-A-Bridesmaid… run of their 2011 hit play, The Debacle, November 15–18, 2012 at Armbrae Academy Drama Studio. Since premiering in Halifax in April 2011, The Debacle was nominated for four Theatre Nova Scotia Robert Merritt Awards including Best Production; was one of only five nominees for the…
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We are pleased to announce that The Debacle will be on the road in a few short weeks! First appearing at Festival TransAmerique in Montreal (May 29-31 at 7:00 pm) and then at the Saint John Theatre Company in New Brunswick (June 14-16 at 7:30). After its success with both the initial Halifax run and…
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Elissa Barnard reviews Slowly I Turn in her article “Slowly I Turn a wonderful, tender story”. Read the article below, or at The Chronicle Herald. Slowly I Turn a wonderful, tender story: The trick to Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Slowly I Turn is that a real-life father-and-son John and Ben Stone perform a play about fathers and sons…
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Kate Watson reviews Slowly I Turn in her article “The Stones shine in Slowly I Turn”. Read the article below or at The Coast. The Stones Shine in Slowly I Turn: The smell of baking bread greets the audience as they enter the eclectically cluttered living room that serves as a stage for Zuppa’s latest envelope-pushing production….
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Slowly I Turn is Zuppa’s newest creation. Written by Zuppa founder and principle actor Ben Stone, the show is a about a father and son fullfilling a long-time dream of performing together…by putting on a play in their living room. Starring Ben Stone and his real-life father John (a much loved Halifax school teacher), Slowly…
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Various things are coming down various pipes. In the Fall of 2011, Zuppa Theatre Co. collaborated with Cleveland-based playwright Mike Geither to develop a new show titled The Attaining Gigantic Dimensions. The show is maginification of small moments, a close investigation of little things that happen in between big things, and a meditation on the…
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Susan Leblanc-Crawford’s acclaimed solo performance played at Nightwood Theatre’s New Groundswell Festival in Toronto, December 2 through 10, 2011. We thank our friends at Nightwood and Toronto audiences for a great run. “surprising and touching […] a sensitive piece of theatre, highlighted by Leblanc-Crawford’s moving performance and some surprising visual moments that involve the work…
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The year was 2011. Popular unrest was spreading around the world. On November 18, 2011, a group of Halifax’s best musicians and Zuppa Theatre Co. teamed up to present an evening of protest songs in Halifax’s remarkable chamber music venue, The Music Room. The concert featured Rose Cousins, The Heavy Blinkers, Gypsophilia, Ryan MacGrath, Don…
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Five Easy Steps (to the end of the world) ran at the 2011 Magnetic North Theatre Festival in Ottawa at the Arts Court Theatre. And so it was that the world ended, night after night, in our nation’s capital.
Amanda Campbell reviews The Debacle in her article “The Debacle is Anything But” on her blog TWISI. Read the article below or at her blog TWISI. The Debacle is Anything But When I was an undergraduate student at Dalhousie University, Zuppa Circus Theatre, now known most often just as Zuppa Theatre, was the very beating heart…
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Zuppa Theatre Co. was happy to present the Canadian premiere of Australia’s The Ranters. From Tuesday April 12 to Saturday 16, 2011, The Ranters performed their new work Song in conjunction with Zuppa Theatre Co.’s The Debacle at The Plutonium Playhouse. Ranters Theatre is part of a collection of innovative companies that are making significant…
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Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Five Easy Steps (to the end of the world) won three Theatre Nova Scotia Robert Merritt Awards on Tuesday: – Outstanding Production – Outstanding Female Actor in a Leading Role (Susan Leblanc-Crawford) – Outstanding Lighting Design (Louisa Adamson) In addition, Collaborator and Costume Designer Leesa Hamilton won the Mayor’s Award for Emerging…
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Zuppa Theatre Co.’s annual Sport & Social is like the school fair of old. We have classic games like Chicken Toss and Duck-of-War, and modern international games like Ping Pong and Foosball. Saturday, March 19 at 8:00 pm in the Gym at Armbrae Academy, 1400 Oxford St., Halifax. Tickets are $10 and that gets you…
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The Coast has narrowed down their top 10 plays of 2010, and Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Five Easy Steps (to the end of the world) makes it to number one! “Gorgeous and haunting. A true high point,” writes Kate Watson. Read the full list.
In support of Zuppa Theatre Co.’s upcoming one-woman show, to be co-created by Susan Leblanc-Crawford and Ann-Marie Kerr, local musicians will be performing songs titled after women. This is our one big fundraiser of 2010, and we need your help! Saturday, November 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM The Music Room, 6181 Lady Hammond, Halifax. Cash…
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“if you only see one play this year, make it Zuppa Theatre’s Five Easy Steps (to the end of the world)” “an original, haunting piece that will stick with you long after you’ve left the misty confines of its Brewery Market ‘stage.’” “The music by Jason Michael MacIsaac and David Christensen is both catchy and…
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The Coast Zuppa meets the market The Chronicle Herald Zuppa follows friends to the end of the world CKDU 88.1 FM News Collective – Operation Wake Up! “This performance melds […] words, movement, gesture and infuses them with light, space and music to create an inspired piece of theatre. The inexpressible is given voice and…
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Zuppa Theatre Co.’s Five Easy Steps (to the end of the world) returns from its world premiere in Cardiff, Wales. Three actors. An original musical score. The last night on Earth? In the midst of a shop’s dusty backroom, three aging school friends have assembled to bid farewell to the world on the night of…
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Tara Thorne interviews the creators of Poor Boy in her article “Zuppa Powers”. Read the article below or at The Coast. Zuppa Powers Halifax’s most inventive theatre company has a new name and a new production, Poor Boy, set in a pop-music fantasy world. But nothing’s changed about Zuppa Theatre’s physically creative process and their ability to…
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