Tuesday, November 30, 2010
Café DaPoPo Bounces Back
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Café DaPoPo Returns to Potsdam
Monday, October 18, 2010
From Our Ducky's Café Menu
Prologues
Prologues are available for the table, shared, or intimate.
Shakespeare's Sonnets $3
Ye olde verse, performed with your choice of Duck Puppets, pretentious or plain.
Delicious Ditty $3
A monthly variety of simple unaccompanied songs, performed right at your table.
Duck of the Draw $3
A surprise pick performed by our talented Duck Puppets!
One free Prologue per table! Choose from a variety of sonnets, ducks and ditties.
Songs
Suitable for sharing, comes with accompaniment available with Duck Puppetz.
Chanson du Jour $4
Ask your server about this month's featured song.
Pretentious Song $5
Heady, songs in exotic tongues, accompanied with a generous touch of passion, melodrama and Sturm & Drang.
For Translations add $1
Broadway Belter $5
Catchy tunes, sharp lyrics and a wide range of emotions, your choice of comedy or torch song.
DaBIG Ensemble Number
A generous performance of melody with enjoyable lyrics, performed with pizazz by the ensemble for the entire room. No extra cost!
Speeches
Ye Olde Monologue $4
Seasoned prose or verse with hints of character, situation & emotion.
Modern/Contemporary Monologue $4
Strong, modern characters with mixed intentions, rich subtexts & a hint of urbane and universal themes.
Canuck's Corner $5
Teary or cheery Canadian Content with worlds of meaning, a variety of local flavours and hints of maple.
DaPoPo Rant $3
Home-made rants and local beefs, performed with outrage and genuine disbelief, and a side of social commentary.
Enjoy any three menu items at a special table rate for only $12! Extra charges may apply for groups of five or more patrons.
Entr'actes
Conversation Piece $4
Outrageous characters, improvisation and fresh humour, shtick & moxie.
Happening $4
Performance art stylings with more than a hint of the avant-garde.
Sextangle $5
Improvised musical fun with a harmonious blend of melody, counterpoint, theme & variation.
DaPoetry $4
Carefully crafted text, declaimed with finesse.
Scenes
Selections will be performed for the entire table.
Ye Olde Scene $6
A medley of emotions, conflict, aged language, poetic inflection and a monthly variety of humours. Ask about our world-famous Shakespeare selections.
Slice of Life $5
Modern or contemporary scene with fresh, relatable themes and subjects, your choice of comedic or dramatic.
DaBIG Ensemble Scene
A blend of characters in juicy conflict, for the room, varies monthly – this one's on the house!
Epilogues
Bed-Time Story $4
Variety of tuck-me-in fare read at your table with pictures, narrative and loveable, huggable friends!
Please pay for your performances with cash. Remember to tip your food server separately.
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
DaPoPo Descends On Dartmouth!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
DaPride 2010
"WOW! Last night was amazing. Congratulations to you and the entire cast. The pieces I ordered/had the fortune of enjoying last night were superb."
– Aaron Andreino
"What an exceptionally good time we had last night at Café DaPoPo – you guys are really dynamic and original and you continue to blow me away."
– Holly Arsenault
"My large table of friends had a great great time! I am sure that many more will be attending the next Café DaPoPo."
– Brendan Sangster
"The crêpes [courtesy of Crêperie Mobile]… yum!"
– Anonymous
"Café allowed me to play in a way that I never had before. I did all that I could, maybe more than I should, and now oh, how I want to do more."
– Ira Henderson
"I really enjoyed being able to share an incredibly personal performance with friends and enthusiastic strangers. It was the most energetic audience I've ever had. And I loved the ensemble numbers!"
– Zach Faye
"The performances I cherish are the unpredictable ones. Filling an order for a 'song by Cole Porter with vocal harmonies', unrehearsed, I found myself improvising a sextangular homage to Cole Porter with Keelin and Eric."
– GaRRy Williams
"As someone who has been involved with Cafe for three years, it was amazing for me to see a house jam-packed with so many new patrons… I enjoyed experiencing the Cafe through them and re-appreciating it's novelty, quirkiness and fundamental awesomeness. Also great were the decidedly communal moments in the otherwise buzz of individual table talk and performance - the shared laughter over the surprise reveal of Ira in drag or the princes in Faux Disney, the implicit agreement in the room to be quiet during singing performances and the erupting and enthusiastic applause after the ensemble pieces. My favorite performances of my own were a boisterous Miss Congeniality improv with a crowd of eight and, in stark contrast, a quiet recitation of Pam Calabrese McLean's poem 'Dragons' for Hugo at the bar."
– Kim Parkhill
The Sex Play: Actor and Politician scene. Ira and I were able to perform the double seduction of the actor and the politician at the small bar at the back of Menz. The audience all stood behind, almost like bartenders, while we performed the scene. It was very intimate – quiet flirtation for the audience/voyeurs. A very strange experience, and an interesting one for all.
– Eric Benson