The Movements
2023-06-06 20:00 - 21:30 (America/Halifax) | Alderney Landing Theatre, 2 Ochterloney St, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 4W1, Canada
By Zuppa
Presented in partnership with STAGES Theatre Festival

Thursday, May 25th @ 8:00pm
Friday, May 26th @ 8:00pm
Saturday, May 27th @ 8:00pm
Thursday, June 1st @ 8:00pm
Friday, June 2nd @ 8:00pm
Saturday, June 3rd @ 8:00pm
Tuesday, June 6th @ 8:00pm

Location: Alderney Landing Theatre (2 Ochterloney St)
Duration: 90 mins
Tickets: $15/$20/$25 (Pay what you can)
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The Movements is a high-octane theatre/dance spectacular and the economics class you never had in school. It’s a show about the global economy in the form of a 90-minute workout routine. Accompanied by a soaring musical score and multi-layered video design, four performers never quit as they transform dry data into aerobic movement before your very eyes. Covering everything from GDP and the WHO to wealth inequality and inflation, The Movements examines the mind-boggling complexity of these hot topics in a way that is accessible and endlessly engaging.
Credits:
Starring (alphabetical):
Stewart Legere
Faly Mevamanana
Liliona Quarmyne
Rebecca Wolfe
Choreographer:
Liliona Quarmyne
Video Designers:
Christian Ludwig Hansen with Anna Shepard
Composer:
Stewart Legere
Lighting Design:
Jessica Lewis
Director:
Alex McLean
Dance Coach:
Rebecca Wolfe
Video Operator:
Christian Ludwig Hansen
Creation Intern: Kate Urquart
Producer: Sophie Schade
Created in partnership with Kinetic Studio and Halifax Dance.
Generously supported by the Craig Foundation and the Black Family Foundation.

Fille de laitier
2024-05-11 19:00 - 20:30 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
Performance Francophone
Fille, filleule et arrière-petite-fille de laitiers, Arleen Thibault présente son 2e solo de conte en puisant, cette fois, dans ses anecdotes familiales et une collecte de souvenirs de livreurs de lait auprès du grand public. Accompagnée sur scène par le musicien Robin Servant, elle nous livre avec humour et tendresse les vérités et les mythes d’un métier sur le point d’entrer dans la légende.
Spectacle de conte et musique – 75 minutes
Sur scène: Arleen Thibault conteuse et Robin Servant musicien.

Une brève discussion “Q&A” prendra place suite au spectacle
>> Enregistrement pour service de garde GRATUIT pour enfants (en anglais) pendant le spectacle

ÉQUIPE DE CRÉATION
Texte, interprétation et mise en scène : Arleen Thibault / Musique et conception sonore : Robin Servant / Assistance à la mise en scène : Cyntia Southière / Conseil à l’écriture : Gigi Bigot (France) / Explorations scéniques : Stéphane Guertin, Andréanne Joubert et Sylvie Faivre (France) / Conseil aux costumes : Viviane Lacombe / Conseil à l’éclairage : Maxine Pétrin
PRODUCTION
Production : Arleen Thibault et Cyntia Southière
Coproduction : Vitrines sur la relève de Québec et Philippe Beaulieu Gestion Artistique
Directrice Technique : Noémie Percy
Directrice de tournée : Cyntia Southière

Daughter, god-daughter and great-granddaughter of milkmen. Celebrated Quebec storyteller Arleen Thibault delves into family lore to share memories of a job and a way of life that generations later is making its way into the realm of myth and legend. Presented in French only.

Flower Bed
2025-05-09 19:30 - 20:00, 2025-05-10 19:30 - 20:00 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
Written and performed by Noella Murphy
Flower Bed is an accessible chronicle of chronic illness. Using puppets, humour, and visual art, it creatively explores what life is like when your full-time job is Living With Pain. Noella Murphy is a clown, a visual artist, a theatre maker, and a medical mystery. From a misogynistic healthcare system that ignores women’s pain to the struggles of being confined to your bed for months on end, Noella reflects on the absurdity, grief, and transformation that comes with chronic illness, creating a place to share her story and allow others to see their experiences reflected onstage. With two complementary components (an onstage performance and an interactive gallery show), this multidisciplinary piece is a visual spectacle, a place for conversation, and a pathway towards empathy for those who have dealt with any form of illness in their lives.
Discounted tickets are sold as a Double Bill with Archive of Loneliness

Flower Bed Team
Noella Murphy – Creator/Performer
Lou Campbell – Director/Dramaturg
Laura Stinson – Puppet Designer/Puppeteer
Ginevra Syperek – Costume Co-designer
Ashley MacDonald and Susie Murphy – Costume Co-designers
Colleen Arcturus MacIsaac – Producer
Thank you to Arts Nova Scotia for their support of this project.
ASL interpretation will be provided for the May 10th performance.
Childcare will be provided for this event. Please use this REGISTRATION FORM.

Bios
Noella Murphy – Creator/Performer
Noella Murphy (she/they) is a mad and disabled actor, costume designer, visual artist, and all-around clown. She holds a BFA from NSCAD University, and is an alum of Kinsale’s Wooden O Drama Program (Ireland). Despite an active visual arts practice of her own, Noella is deeply interested in sharing art as a therapeutic tool, and much of Noella’s professional career has been dedicated to working with folks with varying backgrounds, disabilities, young, and old. Noella uses these various expertises, as well as her background in clowning and visual art, to explore deeper, more challenging subject matter, while simultaneously infusing these discoveries with light, care, and play. Visually, Noella concentrates has been fascinated by the flora that surrounds her. Exploring realism with permission to choose unnatural size, colours, or different materials, Noella never tires of botanical art and using her work to show the viewer a different perspective. Her pieces range from lino cuts, etchings, to watercolour on wood canvases with pen on top and more recently paint marker. Drawn to line and stippling, the style ranges from realism to a more graphic approach.
@noella_murphy
Lou Campbell – Director/Dramaturg
Lou Campbell (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Kjipuktuk/Halifax, NS. Their practice traverses many mediums including performance, clown, stand-up, drag, poetry and sound. They create work that unpacks the inner workings of their own experiences, usually manifesting in the open sharing of mortifying past mistakes. Their award winning solo show PRUDE premiered at EFT at the Stages festival. It has since toured across the country to festivals such as rEVolver, High Performance Rodeo, Outfest, and Next Stage Festival. Lou also co-runs a cross-province collective based in Toronto and Halifax called Probably Theatre. This collective creates performance work devised from poetry, and runs events and exhibitions that facilitate the creation of new work by other artists.⁠ Lou is thrilled to be working on Flower Bed.
Laura Stinson – Puppet Designer/Puppeteer
Laura Stinson (she/they) – Laura crafts images from both found and traditional materials. These creations become narratives, characters and atmospheres in a variety of theatrical spectacles. She began her career in puppetry with Bread and Puppet Theater in 2016. After four years working as a touring member and subsequent resident puppeteer with the company, Laura moved back to Mi’kma’ki and co-founded North Barn Theatre with Ian McFarlane in 2020. Alongside making work with North Barn she continues to collaborate with other artists as a performer, designer and builder. She also shares her specialized knowledge by leading community workshops in both puppet construction and performance across the Atlantic region. She currently lives and works in Mi’kma’ki.

Fallow
Come see Noella Murphy’s Fallow currently on exhibit in the lobby of the Bus Stop Theatre in conjunction with Flower Bed.

The Huns by Matchstick Theatre
2025-08-26 - 2025-09-07 | Neptune Theatre – Craig Boardroom, 1593 Argyle St, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 2B2, Canada
Matchstick Theatre presents Michael Ross Albert’s play The Huns in Neptune Theatre’s Craig Boardroom. A cutting office comedy and nuanced exploration of today’s working world, The Huns is the first piece of Mayworks Kjipuktuk/Halifax’s new MOMENTUM programming. From August 26th to September 7th, experience the Atlantic Canadian premiere of one of the country’s most exciting new playwrights.
Three employees of a tech company—Shelley (Katerina Bakolias), Pete (Liam Fair), and Iris (Gil Anderson)—meet for an emergency conference call. Their office has been robbed and essential equipment is missing, with Gen-Seven set to launch ON MONDAY! The three co-workers have their bosses and colleagues on the line—WHAT COULD GO WRONG?!
The Huns is directed by Jake Planinc and designed by Jordan Palmer, with Chelsea Dickie (Stage Manager) and Alex Mills (House Manager). Matchstick’s 70-minute production has fully accessible, but extremely limited capacity. Tickets are $20 (with one PWYC preview on August 26th).
Performances are at 7:30PM Tuesday through Saturday and 2:00PM on Saturdays and Sundays. Please contact us in advance for accommodation at matchsticktheatre@gmail.com

Am I Ovary-Acting?
2026-05-10 19:00 - 20:00 | The Bus Stop Theatre Coop, 2203 Gottingen St, Halifax, NS, Canada
By Lunasea Theatre
$10 in advance and $15 at the door

If cost is a barrier, please reach out to info@mayworkskjipuktukhalifax.ca and we will accommodate you.

Childcare is available for free and on site during the May 10th reception and Q&A. Please register in advance.
ASL interpretation will be available.

Am I Ovary-Acting? is a work by LunaSea Theatre about reproductive justice that examines commonly held beliefs about health and medical care for those with ovaries/uteruses/vaginas. Through comedy, storytelling, rage and disbelief we explore reproductive health and justice through relevant objects. At Mayworks, our focus will be the history, uses and misuses of the speculum. This 50 minute show is part ted-talk, part conversation, part storytelling. When it comes to health and reproductive justice the political and social landscape right now is rife with misinformation, disinformation and half-truths. We are here to press against that tide with nuanced conversation and evidence-based information in a fun, curious, theatrical way.
Credits:
Created and performed by Kathleen Dorian and Ailsa Galbreath
Research by Claire Horn

KATHLEEN DORIAN (she/her) is a creator/actor based in Dartmouth, NS (Punamu’kwati’jk). She is co-Artistic Director of LunaSea Theatre, Nova Scotia’s foremost feminist theatre company (most recently producing SoloFest, a festival of new one-act works), and one quarter of the clown-troupe-turned-accidental-theatre-company Tea Time Creation Co. (First Date/Last Date, Gina Is Dead, Romeo & Juliet: A Drink Along, Midsummer Night’s Wet Dream). She has had the great pleasure of working with extremely talented Halifax peers as an actor (How Quickly Things Change – xo secret theatre; This is Nowhere, How Small How Far Away – Zuppa Theatre; The Very Hungry Caterpillar, My Favourite Story Book/Guess How Much I Love You, The Rainbow Fish – Mermaid Theatre) as well as an assistant director and director (Some Blow Flutes – HomeFirst Theatre, Booby Trap – Rooks Field Green). Kathleen is interested in puppetry, story through movement and magic, and meeting her audience in the space between performance and reality.
AILSA GALBREATH (she/her) is a theatre artist based in Punamu’kwati’jk (Dartmouth). Ailsa is an actor, creator, and producer. She is passionate about new work. Recently, Ailsa performed as a puppeteer in Gale Force’s ambitious outdoor creation Icarus: Falling of Birds. Ailsa played Flute in Neptune Theatre’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream last season. She performed in Two Planks and a Passion’s season of The Mountain and the Valley and Chased by the Bear. She has worked with Ship’s Company Theatre, Gale Force Theatre, PARC, secret theatre, EFT, HomeFirst, Zuppa Theatre, LunaSea Theatre Co, Halifax Theatre for Young People and Villain’s Theatre. Ailsa is 1/4th of Tea Time Creation Co, a clown troupe who seek to subvert the status quo with wacky fun, through the creation of new work and reinvention of classics. Ailsa is a certified teacher of the Interactive Teaching Method of the Alexander Technique. She is the Co-Artistic Director of LunaSea Theatre Company, a feminist theatre company whose work centres the voices of women, non-binary, and underrepresented genders.

CLAIRE HORN is a writer and researcher with a PhD in law (University of London) and an MA in gender and legal studies (NYU). From 2021-2024, she was a Killam Postdoctoral Fellow at Dalhousie University’s Health Justice Institute, and she has held research fellowships with the Modern Law Review and the Wellcome Trust. She has researched and taught in law and policy governing sexual and reproductive health, rights, and technologies for six years and has published with a variety of nonfiction venues as well as academic journals including Body & Society, Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience, The Journal of Medical Ethics, the Medical Law Review and Feminist Legal Studies. Her first book, Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth, was published in 2023 and was longlisted for the Science Writers and Communicators of Canada Book Award.
