Since premiering in Halifax in April 2011, The Debacle was nominated for four Theatre Nova Scotia Robert Merritt Awards including Best Production; was one of only five nominees for the prestigious 2012 Lieutenant Governor of Nova Scotia Masterworks Arts Award; and was awarded bronze in The Coast's "Best of Halifax" Reader Survey.
The Debacle has toured to Toronto as part of Nightwood Theatre’s New Groundswell Festival; Saint John, New Brunswick; Charlottetown, PEI; and the internationally renowned Festival TransAmériques in Montréal. Invigorated by the excitement of the open road, The Debacle returns to Halifax with a brand new set and lighting design.
A co-creation of actor and Zuppa Theatre Co-Artistic Director, Susan Leblanc-Crawford, and director, Ann-Marie Kerr with technical direction by Ingrid Risk, The Debacle stars Ms. LeBlanc-Crawford as Margaret, a woman desperate to freeze the memories of her dying sister following a terrible accident. It is a highly theatrical portrait of a woman facing the inevitable reality of being alone.
