DATES: March 19 +20, 2026
LOCATION: Alderney Landing Theatre
Pop-Up Love Party re-imagines Plato’s Symposium in its quest to define eros and all its plagues and pleasures. The performers must outdo each other in a battle of ideas. They do this with the aid of nostalgia, aerobics, a kangaroo court, conspiracy theories, an infectious pop ballad, and quiet philosophical contemplation...while reclaiming the meaning of the word symposium: drinking party.
Amplifying the experience is a 7-course snack menu created specifically for this anniversary presentation, with flavours and textures to render the show’s central ideas as viscerally as possible. The snacks were created by two legends of the Halifax food scene: Chef Jamie MacAulay (Water and Bone) in consultation with Chef Dennis Johnston (Fid). Chef MacAulay now runs the culinary program at NSCC, Akerley Campus, and Chef Johnston is retired but will get off the couch to lend his expertise to this special anniversary event (Chef Johnston toured with Pop-Up Love Party as Head Chef from 2015 - 2018).The snacks will be prepared during the show by Chef MacAulay with assistance from students of the NSCC culinary program and Chef Johnston.
Pop-Up Love Party stars Ben Stone, Susan Leblanc, and Stewart Legere, and is directed by Alex McLean. Pop-Up Love Party was developed in part through The Collaborations at Canada’s National Arts Centre.
To be certain, this ain’t no dinner theatre. Pop-Up Love Party is a philosophical feast, a sensory slip n’ slide, and a unique theatrical experience from deep in the pulsing Zuppa heart. A theatrical tour de force, it has been presented across Canada and the U.K.
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