GLOVER – The Bread & Puppet Theater is taking its circus to cities and towns in the US Northeast and Midwest September 1 to October 14.
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The company presents Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses that began in 1970 while in residence at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. The show will draw on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread & Puppet iconography to highlight urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration. After each show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and “Cheap Art”, books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press will be for sale.
Director Peter Schumann reminds us that this year’s circus brings, “Anti-Empire Art that acknowledges our beloved Mother Dirt, who makes us and unmakes us, and who presents urgently needed domestic resurrection services for the victims of this latest genocide. We are joined by Palestinian cranes on their way to Washington to replace the excrement in the White House with organic bird droppings, green frogs who teach the art of hopping over seemingly insurmountable problems, and gaggles of kindergarten butterflies who frolic to their hearts’ desire.”
Now in its 62nd year, Bread & Puppet will tour to some of its regular fall stops including New York, Cambridge, and Baltimore, as well as to cities and towns in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. In all, Bread & Puppet will play the circus 37 times in 34 places. The full tour schedule is available at BreadAndPuppet.org/Tour.
