“Captain Boycott” by Bread and Puppet Theater at the Boston Center for the Arts, Jan. 31, 2015, as photographed by Greg Cook.
“The police brutality that serves the state is very similar in the Greek drama as it is now in America,” Peter Schumann, the founder of Bread and Puppet Theater told me the other day.
We were talking about the dark, condensed version of Sophocles’s 2,500-year-old play “Antigone” that the Vermont troupe is bringing to the Boston Center for the Arts as the opening act of their “Captain Boycott” performances from Jan. 28 to Feb. 1.
And one of the underlying questions ultimately was: How does this longtime activist theater respond to the protests going on in our streets? The answer: By reconsidering history.
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