Step inside Lupinder’s Tent, an interactive performance where lost things have stories, but these stories are never truly lost. With the help of tabletop puppets, Lupinder’s Tent is a tender and imaginative celebration of connection, care, and the curious journey of lost things trying to find their way home.
Guided by Lupinder—the Bog’s expert in Lost and Found—and her no-nonsense associate Ms. Grismunda, children and grownups alike are drawn into a participatory tale of rediscovery, memory, and magic on a miniature scale. From runaway mittens to forgotten songs, each item in Lupinder’s Tent has a mystery, and each audience member becomes a helper, a seeker, a finder.
Performers and Co-creators : Lily Falk and Franziska Glen
Co-creator: Jane Wells
Photographer : Greg Ellison
About Gale Force Theatre
Gale Force Theatre was started by Mount Allison University graduates, Franziska Glen and Lily Falk. It was in blustery Sackville, NB in 2015 over hot bowls of ratatouille that Lily and Franziska began to dream up plans of creating theatre together that were as handmade as their ratatouille, as strong and sturdy as the winds that whipped off the Tantramar Marshes and as filled with heart as their friendship.
Based both in Kjipuktuk/Halifax and Upper Lahave, Nova Scotia, their work spans productions for children and adults that includes new works, devised productions, and puppetry. Their production Crypthand, written by Lily Falk, won Outstanding Emerging Production at the Nova Scotia Merritt Awards (2022) and the Playwright Guild of Canada’s Emerging Playwright Award (2022). For younger audiences, Gale Force recently premiered While We Wait, a contemplative and playful puppetry performance about a child’s perspective about living with change. They also regularly perform Lupinder’s Tent, a pop-up performance that takes place in a beautiful patchwork tent. Alongside creating and producing new work, Gale Force Theatre also runs outdoor theatre making courses for teens and pre-teens in partnership with local outdoor centres. Gale Force Theatre is an artistic associate with the River Clyde Pageant and frequently collaborates with North Barn Theatre.
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