Let’s break some rules…
Push Up Bar returns in time
for International Women’s Day, 2022!
March 4 & 5
@ Shuswap Theatre
in Salmon Arm
March 8 & 9
@ Pavilion Theatre
in Kamloops
The Break A Leg Collective with…
Push Up Bar
We are here to make a live connection.
We’ve hung out our dirty laundry for all to see, the words we say cast spells in the dark forgotten theatre and our movements shine a light on the state of the world… but the distance is safe and there’s plenty of room for play.
wit & witchcraft
music & movement
marvellous mayhem:
Push Up Bar is a genre-bending tapestry of storytelling
a collective creation
conceived during crazy times
when theatre was illegal and
we had nothing to lose:
a colourful, melodic, fiercely funny, wonderfully weird mosaic-in-motion
“ The powerhouse women of Break A Leg Collective took us all on the most refreshing and desperately needed journey of laughs, female empowerment, tears, self-love, group consensual snacks, and ALL THE JOY of seeing, being and doing live theatre!
I haven’t laughed that hard in over a year and half - and in the closing number all the BIG feelings came up.
Thank you, bitches! What a treat your show was. EVERYONE should see this show! ”
-Lana O’Brien, review from 2021 Kelowna Fringe
creator / cast
Allandra Gardner
Allandra’s Potion
1. Start with laughter-- always
2. Add some well-earned, newly embraced tears
3. Stir in a dash of self-reflection and personal growth
4. Add a lifelong theatre education and some sweet improv skills
5. Let simmer for half an hour (the recipe calls for 20, but always be late)
6. Try out a million different combinations of hobbies and possible career choices, but don’t actually settle on one thing for too long
7. Fold in several instances of social anxiety
8. Sprinkle with a delectable spice blend of imagination, an obsession for all things space-related, beautiful words, deep connection, sci-fi, an intense love for magic, and potato chips
9. Top with a healthy helping of uncertain excitement, a heapload of love, and a dash of awe for the magic of the universe
10. Voila-- one tall, lanky, loveable Allandra
creator / cast
Devon More
A Spell for a Devon
1. Start with music.
2. Add travel.
3. Polyglottery.
4. Diversify instrumentation.
5. Am I educated yet?
6. Take a few knocks on the head.
7. Give up on ‘real jobs’.
8. Work hard.
9. Cry once. Always.
10. Shed that snake skin: less is more.
Voila…! She’s never finished but ever ready enough.
creator / cast
Brittney Martens
Brittney’s potion to be a hot mess:
1. Start your life in Vanderhoof, BC and find a love for the lucrative career of theatre and visual art
2. Be in 23 Disney musicals and slowly gain the courage to sing and act in front of a crowd
3. Develop a habit of not cleaning up after yourself
4. Move to Kamloops and go to theatre school bringing your elderly pup with you
5. Find a love for scenic painting and begin to blend the line between visual art and performing art
6. Have 5 different jobs at the local theatre and hop from one job to the next, getting more and more disorganized
7. NEVER clean your car
8. Procrastinate as long as you can
9. Slap on some winged eyeliner and dye your hair blue and hope for the best
10. Now you’ve got yourself a hot-ass-mess
creator / cast
Jessica Buchanan
Recipe for a perfectly imperfect Jess
Grow up in Kamloops with a wildly vivid imagination that kept you playing pretend until you were too old for that sort of thing
Obtain a degree in Theatre/History from TRU and fall deeper in love with theatre, random historical facts and making people laugh
Be involved in numerous theatre companies in Kamloops and co-create The Freudian Slips Improv Troupe and continue feeding that desire the play
Move to Toronto and experience the magic that is The Second City. Audition for the Conservatory program, be accepted and receive a lovely piece of paper that signifies all your hard work and dedication in the fields of improv, sketch writing and performing; try not to crease it
Learn to kick box
Cut your late 20’s adventure short due to global pandemic only to be warmly received by a beautiful, talented and fearless coven of “bitches”
Teach kids theatre; AKA create those building blocks of confidence, acceptance and encourage the flame of growing older doesn’t mean you have to grow up
Add garlic, lots of tea and a splash nervous energy
Mix in a hot bath
Will be ready eventually
Poof
creator / director
Catriona Leger
Catriona's spell for magic moments:
1. Go to theatre school as much as possible - get a BFA in acting an MFA in directing and go to Paris to study with a French clown master who also taught Borat.
2. Move all across the country working in theatre for 25 years; live in as many diverse environments as possible such as a Van, a 150 year old log home, and as many attic apartments as you can find.
3. Direct a coven of delicious divas in an empowering Kamloops collective.
4. Be the exception to the rule as much as possible, for example, by not actually being available to perform in said collective performance because you moved to Vancouver for a contract with Disney when the pandemic cancelled your teaching job at TRU.
Stir in a cauldron…
Poof !
Magic ?
creator / cast
Morgan Benedict
Sugar 🍭. (pumpkin) Spice 💁🏼♀️ . And everything nice.
These were the ingredients chosen to create a perfectly imperfect female identifying boss bitch 💥.
Just add a few curves we are learning to love.
A sprinkle of sass.
A heavy handed dash of glitter and sparkle✨.
A bottle (or two) of wine🍷.
A few cat hairs on her favourite pair of LuluLemon leggings, but she loves that fur baby too much to care😻.
A whole heck of a lot of laughter.
Maybe a tear here or there because similar to Kristen Bell because “if I’m not between a 3 or a 7 on the emotional scale I’m crying”🦥
And an agenda colour coded to the heavens…
And thus, MORGAN BENEDICT was created. With no help from Professor Utonium because this chick got it all figured out all on her own! 💋
Very Important People
Choreographer & Movement Coach: Nathan Fadear
Stage Management: Terri Runnalls
Set Design: Leon Schwesinger
Special Thanks
First Draft Kick-in-the-Pants: Western Canada Theatre
We the Break A Leggers have so much gratitude to Western Canada Theatre in Kamloops for providing us with the impetus to conceive of the show - and the space to build it in.
Costuming: Sweet Legs
Stage Parentals: Wilma & Lloyd Stonehocker