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

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

1. Grow up in Kamloops with a wildly vivid imagination that kept you playing pretend until you were too old for that sort of thing

2. Obtain a degree in Theatre/History from TRU and fall deeper in love with theatre, random historical facts and making people laugh

3. Be involved in numerous theatre companies in Kamloops and co-create The Freudian Slips Improv Troupe and continue feeding that desire the play

4. 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

5. Learn to kick box

6. 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”

7. 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

8. Add garlic, lots of tea and a splash nervous energy

9. 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!  💋