Pop-Up Love Party by Eastern Front Theatre + ZUPPA

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…