This is Nowhere September 26-30 reserve free tickets at thisisnowhere.ca “What would somebody in 1968 have hoped the city of 2018 might look like? What were the blind spots? What were the things that the people of 1968 weren’t thinking about when imagining cities of the future?” Those are the questions that Zuppa Theatre’s co-artistic […]
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“Should we go on? Yeah, let’s go on”: Shakespeare By The Sea and Zuppa Theatre in conversation
Zuppa Theatre’s 20th anniversary bash featuring Pop-Up Love Party Friday, April 20, 7pm Murphy’s Restaurant, 1751 Lower Water Street $25-$40 25 Years by The Sea Wednesday, April 25, 6:30pm Halifax Central Library, 5440 Spring Garden Road $25 This week, two Halifax theatre companies are celebrating milestones: Shakespeare By The Sea—founded in 1994 by Elizabeth Murphy […]
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In the room where it happened
The Zuppa Theatre Co. has made plays set locally before—Penny Dreadful takes place in a Nova Scotia mansion circa 1863; How Small, How Far Away happens in the north end in 2010—but At This Hour: The Deposition of Harbour Pilot Francis Mackey takes a different approach: It’s a piece of verbatim theatre that will be performed in the room […]
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Missing + you
The Archive of Missing Things May 15-27 Dalhousie Killam Library 6225 University Avenue, $25-$30 stages.tickethalifax.com Dalhousie’s Killam Library is the setting for Zuppa Theatre’s latest creation, The Archive of Missing Things, the company’s first new show in two years. Described as an “ambient drama,” it’s part-game and part-live performance, where audience members are given tablets and […]
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Top 5 local theatre productions
The Weekend Healer By Bryden MacDonald KAZAN CO-OP A devastating family drama from Nova Scotian playwright Bryden MacDonald boasted potent performances from Stephanie MacDonald and Kathryn MacLellan as mother and daughter with a dark past, and even darker future. Let’s Try This Standing By Gillian Clark Keep Good Theatre Company Personal, funny solo show chronicling […]
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Father and son play father and son in Zuppa’s Slowly I Turn
An ailing father and his actor son sit around a living room discussing life and death while attempting to perform vaudeville routines. This is the premise of Zuppa Theatre Co’s Slowly I Turn: A Parlour Vaudeville in One Act, performed by real-life father and son John and Ben Stone and joined by Jess Lewis, third […]
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Best Theatre Production
Gold Winner The Addams Family, Neptune Theatre Silver Winner Pop Up Love Party, Zuppa Theatre Co. Bronze Winner Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare by the Sea The Addams Family’s entertainment juggernaut began to grow as a cutesy (black and white!) television series in 1964, then a few movies in the ’90s and, five years back, a […]
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Flavour of love
“A lot of people don’t actually know this, but the word ‘symposium’ in ancient Greek actually means drinking party,” says Alex McLean of Zuppa Theatre Co. And it’s a party they have planned for the last two week of March. Zuppa’s Pop-Up Love Party is a contemporary interpretation of Plato’s philosophical text, Symposium, which focuses […]
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Oscar’s ballad
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 the company has aged like a fine wine. “I’m waiting to see what people who saw the show ten years ago think,” says […]
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For Zuppa Theatre Co., size matters
If you’re looking for a big ticket show chock-full of drama, romance, magic and exotic destinations…you might want to head next door to Neptune’s Fountain Hall. Set in present-day Halifax, The Attaining Gigantick Dimensions follows Francis, a military translator coming home from Afghanistan after receiving news of a family crisis. “The whole play takes place […]
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The Debacle’s back
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 “always a bridesmaid” remount of The Debacle, referencing their multiple nominations, four Theatre Nova Scotia Robert Merritt Awards, including Best Production; one of five nominees for the 2012 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia […]
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Zuppa Theatre’s Protests
Citypages.com overcome Zuppa Theatre’s latest fundraiser Get Thee Behind Me Satan: Songs of Protest is well-timed; as the fallout from the Occupy NS eviction last weekend continues, it might do some of us good to air our grievances through song. The show, taking place at the Music Room on Friday November 18, will present some […]
