Live-In Basics
For Live-In 2013 click here! DaPoPo Theatre welcomes you to share in a celebration of living theatre!
The Live-In is a month-long festival of performances, play readings, skill-share workshops and special events, aimed at bringing artists and community members together. Each day in October, we’ll come together to discover, experience and create theatre together.
This year, we’re “Telling (Our) Stories” and asking: How do we find stories, how do we shape them, and how do we share them?
Check out our exciting line-up of events by clicking on the following:
Go to Performances
Go to Play Readings
Go to Workshops
Go to Special Events
Whether you are theatre loving, supporting, curious or making, your presence will help create the story of this year’s Live-In!
Click on the image below to check out the calendar, and plan your Live-In story!
REGISTRATION AND RESERVATIONS
The Living Room is an intimate space, perfect for bringing artists and community members together; reservation or registration is strongly recommended as noted.
WHAT'S IT COST?
DaPoPo is committed to making theatre accessible to all community members. Therefore, most events are by donation and no one will be turned away. However, we value our artists and their art, so we would like to fairly compensate them for their time and expertise. We suggest a minimum donation of $10 per event / workshop session from those who are able (cash only please). Tax receipts may be available for donations of $10 or more.
Save time and money by booking a Festival Pass! For $75, you get a punch card good for 10 events*. (limited number available. Not valid for "Two Hours in a Madhouse" performances).
Save time and money by booking a Festival Pass! For $75, you get a punch card good for 10 events*. (limited number available. Not valid for "Two Hours in a Madhouse" performances).
Thank Yous
The Live-In is supported by:
and the Writers' Federation of Nova Scotia.
Our sponsors include:
and
The European Pantry
Chronological Events List
September
30, 7:00 pm
Performance:
Prologue: Opening Night Cabaret
Come
enjoy a cabaret of performances, personal anecdotes and readings that
foreshadow the Live-In 2012 story. A taste of the Live-In, with
workshop facilitators, special guests, playwrights and actors plus
refreshments and socializing.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
1, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: The
Best Brothers by
Daniel MacIvor, read by Daniel MacIvor and John Beale
Ardith
“Bunny” Best has just died in an accident, leaving her sons
Hamilton and Kyle to mourn in their very different ways. As each
struggles to understand the other, the brothers begin to see more
deeply into themselves and the unconventional woman who gave them
birth.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
2, 6:00 - 9:30 pm
Workshop:
Physical Theatre - Grotowski Inspired
Facilitator:
Gina Thornhill
Using
rigorous physical training, this workshop will introduce you to a
creation process based on Jerzy Grotowski's Theatre Laboratory work.
The idea of the actor as the creator instead of the director as well
as the connection of body and imagination are the concepts we will
explore during this Training session. Come prepared to run and sweat.
(Min
4 / Max 12 participants).
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
3, 8:00 pm
Performance:
Flight
School
presented
by Steph Berntson and YOU (yes, you...if you want)
Flight
School is, at once, a creative approach to performance theorising and
a critical approach to creativity – both a show and a
show-and-tell. After witnessing examples of ways to learn and
teach, we will write in a series of short, timed bursts. Then, we
read. In vivo and all together, we augment, extend, and revel in
those stories and lessons you've been harbouring. You need only
share material if you feel so inclined -- or so inspired -- but let's
see what magic
intersects.
We'll learn to fly by leaping.
**Attendees
are asked to bring a picture of themselves in elementary school, a
favourite song or nursery rhyme, and/or a personal credo or motto.**
Admission: Suggested donation of $10. Reservations strongly
recommended. Contact: dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
5 & 6 @ 8:00 pm, October 7 @ 2:00 pm
Performance:
Two Hours in a Madhouse: An Evening with the Notorious Nellie Bly
Written
and directed by Gary L. Blackwood, co-presented with Writers'
Federation of Nova Scotia
The
story of the pioneering reporter and feminist, told mostly in her own
words. Bly was an extraordinary woman who earned international
recognition for her gritty exposes and daring escapades—especially
her record-breaking solo journey around the globe.
Tickets:
$20 regular / $15 artists / $10 students. Reservations strongly
recommended. Contact: dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
6, 13, 20 & 27, 10 am - 1 pm
Workshop:
The Song Is You
Facilitator:
Garry Williams
In
a series of four
sessions
held over brunch each week, participants will write the songs they
want to write. Working, playing, collaborating and sharing ideas, we
will explore how songs function, and develop original songs to be
performed at the end the Live-In. Based on interest, we'll have
tutorials on metre, rhyme, chord finding, structural elements and
analysis. Participants should bring a keyboard + stand or a guitar,
if possible. (Max 12 participants).
Admission:
$10 suggested donation per session. Reservations strongly
recommended. Participants are expected to attend all four sessions.
Contact: dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
6, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Workshop:
Laban Laboratory
Facilitator:
Eric Benson
We
will create a laboratory, of sorts, in which we will experiment with
movements created by Rudolph Laban as they relate to character, and
investigate how posture, body position, and internal movement can be
used as a key for character and text. (Max 10 participants).
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
7, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm
Workshop:
Kids' Creation Lab
Facilitators:
Zach Faye & Kim Parkhill
Calling
kids aged 5 - 9 for a few hours of adventuring in theatre! We'll be
experimenting with theatrical storytelling in a playful way. You'll
make sound and music, move your bodies and use your imagination!
Parents are invited for the last part of the session to see
what you’ve been creating! (Min 4, Max 14 participants).
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
7, 5:00 pm
Special
Event: Thanksgiving Potluck
Bring
food and stories to share as we gather around a big table to be
grateful for friends, food and art.
October
8, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: Kayak by
Jordan Hall (Vancouver, BC)
Alone
on a vast stretch of water, Annie Iversen recounts the strange chain
of events that left her stranded in her son’s old kayak. A doting
mother, Annie is blindsided when her son, Peter, falls in love with
Julie, a passionate environmental activist, and finds herself
struggling to keep Peter safe from the young woman’s dangerous
world.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
9, 7:00 pm
Workshop:
Blowhard! From Suck to Suck-cess: How to Tell a Story the
Blowhard Way
Blowhard
is an occasional night of story-telling and performance based on a
theme, curated by Andrea Dorfman, Tara Doyle, Stephanie Domet and
Jackie Torrens. Suck to Suck-cess is our story-telling workshop! With
storytelling instruction and advice including How To Know If You Have
A Story, How To Structure That Sucker and How To Get Up In Front Of A
Group Of People And Tell It!
Admission:
$5. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
10, 6:00 - 10:00 pm and October 14, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Workshop:
Stories Out of Stuff - An Introduction to Found-object Puppetry
Facilitator:
Chris Little
Create
fun, inventive theatre about things that are important to you.
Found-Object Puppetry (FOP) is the art of manipulating everyday
objects as characters in a play. The story advances when the
audience recognizes what each new object is as well as what it
represents in the story. This ‘joy of recognition’ allows us to
tell stories that explore values, culture, and topical
issues. During this two-session
workshop, participants will create their own short FOP shows that
they will perform for multiple small audiences during a Found-object
Cabaret to follow the final workshop. Participants are asked to
bring three objects that they can throw in the pile for all to draw
from. (Min 6/ Max 12 participants)
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
11, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: Shannon/Joanna
by
Andrea Dymond (Halifax, NS)
Raven
and her best friend Shannon have always been inseparable… until
something threatens their friendship. Glenda thinks she knows
what’s best for her daughter, Joanna. The only problem is…
Joanna doesn’t agree. Shannon/Joanna explores the
journey of two women whose lives intersect as each learns how to cope
with the sudden death of a loved one.
October
13, 6:00 pm - Midnight
Performance:
The Living Museum
An
installation specially created by DaPoPo for Nocturne. Characters
from theatre history will inhabit a cordoned-off exhibit to live out
fourteen minutes of their daily life within the context of the
emotional richness of their own timeless stories. Visitors
can simple observe, or act, potentially affecting the character's
storyline.
Admission:
Free. No reservations required
October
14, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Performance:
Found-Object Puppetry
A
presentation of works-in-progress created during the Found Object
Puppetry workshop. Come enjoy some table-top theatre! Admission by
donation.
October
14, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: Madokht:
Daughter of the Moon by
Aisha Sommer Zaman (Halifax, NS)
This
work, by one of DaPoPo's Acting Out! participants ("a fresh and
formidable voice on the Halifax theatre scene” -The Coast: July 22,
2012), is about the tribulations a young woman living in Iran faces
when she unintentionally outs herself to her strict father. She must
confront her fears and decide whether or not breaking the sacred bond
of a father and his daughter is worth the chance at a life with her
soul-mate.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
15, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: All
About Nothing
by David Rimmington (Halifax, NS)
A
physics professor at a university has made a profound discovery. He
has proved, through a brilliant mathematical calculation that the
universe does not exist. There follow many dramatic and comic
twists as people are forced to re-evaluate their beliefs about the
meaning of existence.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
16, 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm
Workshop:
Let
Me Sing You A Story: how
to perform character-driven story songs from musical theatre and
opera
Facilitator:
Nina Scott-Stoddart
For
singing actors of all levels and ages, this workshop combines a
performing masterclass with discussion and questions. Discover how to
make your sung story telling more vivid and focused through practical
techniques that explore the intersection of singing and acting.
Whether you're a singer who wants to act or an actor who wants to
sing, get tons of suggestions for story song repertoire and build
your skills in this fun and supportive workshop! Singers must bring a
prepared story song (Max 9 singers plus 10 auditor spots)
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
17, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: Woyzcek
by Georg Büchner, English translation by Eric Benson
An
impoverished German soldier whose mental instability is pushed to a
breaking point by the people around him, kills his common-law wife in
a fit of jealousy and madness. Buchner’s 1837 script, unfinished at
his death, is being interpreted and adapted for production by DaPoPo
as a play with puppets. This early public reading will serve to
introduce the text and help dramaturgically with the adaptation.
October
19, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: Galicia
by
Guillermo Verdecchia (Toronto, ON), read by the playwright
A
man falls down: A stand up lecture. Galicia
is a work-in-progress about globalization and subjectivity, about
eating one's way into the world, and the Centre for avant-garde
geography.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
20, 8:00 pm
Performance:
The Drinking Game
The
return of DaPoPo's theatrical experiment. Part intimate dialogue,
part interactive performance event, the Drinking Game is about asking
questions and forging authentic human relationships. It combines
elements of mediated conversation with technical interventions, as
well as spontaneous dramatic and musical performances. As the actors
ask each other difficult questions about their lives, work and
everything in between, the audience is invited to participate, and
join the party!
Tickets:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
20-21, 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Workshop:
Embracing Your Inner Stereotype and Saying the Wrong Thing
Facilitator:
Guillermo Verdecchia
An
invitation for actors and writers (and actor-writers and other hybrid
performance creatures) to take on micro-managed discourse, media,
corporate, and political distortions of all kinds by speaking
uncomfortable truth. Working physically and creating text,
participants will explore their Fool / Jester / Goof. Not for the
overly polite or hyper-sensitive. Bring your anger, your irony, your
wits, your sense of humour (Two cumulative sessions. Max 12
participants).
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
21, 8:00 pm
PANEL
DISCUSSION: Whose Story Is It Anyway?
Considering
that theatre is a mode of representing identities other than our own,
how do the choices we make in terms of what we create and present say
about our culture? What responsibility do we have to embody others
when creating theatre? A discussion with Guillermo Verdecchia,
Mary-Colin Chisholm, Ken Schwartz, Lee-Anne Poole and others (tba),
moderated by Clare Waque.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Contact: dapopolivein@gmail.com for more
info.
October
22, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: Black
Dragon Mountain by
Roy Ellis (Halifax, NS)
Funny,
racy, poetic and brash, a tragicomic road story about a young Chinese
scholar whose search for physical perfection lands him in the court
of a brutal Chinese Emperor. He soon discovers that in the Forbidden
City of Peking, the games of conquest that men play are more severe.
As betrayal, lust, power and threat of war begin to exert their
influence on events, Shentong must answer the age old questions that
all of us ask: who am I, why am I here, what should I do and how
should I be in the world.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
23, 6:30 pm - 10:30 pm
Workshop:
Of Projecting - Creating and Exploring the Digital Image on Stage
Facilitator:
Nick Bottomley
Representation
of images, textures and symbols through manipulation of light is an
essential component of theatre and the digital projector is becoming
an essential tool in the arsenal of the creator. We will creatively
and collaboratively explore the essential elements, possibilities,
and restraints of working with projection on stage. All levels of
familiarity with projections welcome -- computer savvy or shy --
we'll be playing with tools everyone can use.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
25 - 27, 8:00 pm
Performance:
MAKING
IT by
DaPoPo Theatre
Art.
Love. Success. And everything that gets in the way. DaPoPo's latest
ensemble creation tells our story – the story of working artists in
Halifax. Using interviews, dialogue, monologue and song, artists
share their struggles, their triumphs and their failures, as they
dare to live and make art on the Nova Scotian peninsula.
Work-in-progress presentation with Kristi Anderson, Andrew Chandler,
Ann Doyle, Zach Faye, Kim Parkhill and Garry Williams.
Tickets:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
27, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Workshop:
Upstream Music’s Noisy Narratives Workshop
Facilitators:
Arthur Bull and Paul Cram
Noisy
Narratives playfully explores the arranging of improvisational sound
textures with storytelling to create multi-layered sonic events .
Your short stories are welcome as are sound sources with wide
textural possibilities eg: guitar - plucked /strummed/ scraped, or
two rocks. We will conclude with a recital featuring the
participants. Max 10 participants
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
28, 1:00 - 5:00 pm
Special
Event: The "It's All Fun and Games" Challenge
The
gloves are coming off, the flip flops are going on. Run, skip, leap,
trip, twist, laugh and jive at DaPoPo's finest games challenge (and
we are not talking board games here, son). If "unhealthily
competitive" SHOULD be on your resume, do not miss this!
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Contact: dapopolivein@gmail.com for more
info.
October
28, 8:00 pm
Performance:
Notes and Stories: Paul Cram/Arthur Bull Duo in Performance
co-presented
with Upstream Music Association
Unexpected
and inventive perspectives derived from a mix of storytelling,
long-form melodic architecture and textural accompaniment. Upstream
Music Association presents entertaining concerts of international
artists featuring free improvisation, original compositions, and
intensive performances.
Tickets:
$10. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
29, 7:30pm
Play
Reading: The
Tragedy of the Manic Pixie Dreamgirl
by Kristin Slaney (Halifax, NS)
What
happens when art imitates life... and vice versa. Daniel is dealing
with a case of writer’s block, a deteriorating relationship, and an
unruly muse in fairy wings who bears more than a little resemblance
to his current partner. When he begins to write a play about love,
the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur, until the
idealism he utilizes when writing female characters starts to reveal
itself in his real life.
In
a double bill with...
Abettor
by
Malcolm Murray (Stratford, PEI)
A
play about murder and corpse disposal – explores the ease in which
normal people can so quickly fall from grace by mere inertia. A bit
comedic, but a bit creepy, too.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
30, 7:30 pm
Performance:
Showcase: The Live-In 2012 Story
co-presented
with Local Tasting Tours
Featuring
work-in-progress presentations of pieces created during Live-In
workshops over the month, including the first public performances of
songs from "The Song Is You" songwriting group. The evening
will be interwoven with storytelling and tasty treats provided by
Emily Forrest of Local Tasting Tours.
Tickets:
$10 suggested donation. (Reserve early to guarantee you have a spoon
for the tastings!) Contact: dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
31, 7:30 pm
Play
Reading: Shadows
on Oak Island
by Garnet Hirst with Deborah Preeper
Shadows
on Oak Island is a gripping, psychological thriller exploring the
themes of guilt, love, betrayal and obsession.
Admission:
$10 suggested donation. Reservations strongly recommended. Contact:
dapopolivein@gmail.com
October
31, 9:30 pm
Special
Event: Epilogue: Closing Night Party
Immediately
following the reading of "Shadows on Oak Island" we'll
close off the month with a last hurrah party, giving the Live-In
story a very happy ending. Costumes optional, good times
guaranteed.
Guillermo Verdecchia: Live at the Live-In
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| Guillermo Verdecchia |
DaPoPo is thrilled to host writer, director and actor Guillermo Verdecchia at the Live-In, October 19-21nd for a play reading, a workshop and a panel discussion.
Guillermo Verdecchia is a writer of drama and fiction as well as a director and actor. He is the recipient of a Governor-General's Award for Drama for his play Fronteras Americanas and a four-time winner of the Chalmers Canadian Play Award. His work, which includes the Governor-General shortlisted Noam Chomsky Lectures (with Daniel Brooks), the Seattle Times' Footlight Award-winning Adventures of Ali & Ali (with Marcus Youssef and Camyar Chai), A Line in the Sand (with Marcus Youssef), bloom, and Another Country has been anthologized, translated into Spanish and Italian, produced in Europe and the US, and is studied in Latin America, Europe and North America. As a director and actor he has worked at theatres across the country, from the Stratford Festival, where he directed Sunil Kuruvilla's Rice Boy to Vancouver's East Cultural Centre.
An Associate Artist with Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre, Guillermo is also a theatre scholar, currently completing a PhD at the University of Toronto. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on aspects of intercultural theatre practice in Canada, and is a recipient of a Governor-General's Gold Medal for Academic Achievement.
An Associate Artist with Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre, Guillermo is also a theatre scholar, currently completing a PhD at the University of Toronto. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on aspects of intercultural theatre practice in Canada, and is a recipient of a Governor-General's Gold Medal for Academic Achievement.
Guillermo Verdecchia's reading and visit are made possible by support from the Playwrights Guild of Canada and the Canada Council for the Arts.
For more information on these events, follow the links below:
October 19, 7:30 pm
October 20-21, 2:00 pm - 5:30 pm
WORKSHOP:
Embracing Your Inner Stereotype and Saying the Wrong Thing
Max. 12 participants.
Note: this is a two-session workshop, reservations required
Embracing Your Inner Stereotype and Saying the Wrong Thing
Max. 12 participants.
Note: this is a two-session workshop, reservations required
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