Rainy weather led to Bread and Puppet Theater performing its satirical, papier-mache “Domestic Insurrection Circus” inside First Church in Cambridge on Sept. 3, 2017. Acts mocked Donald Trum (though not by name) and called for the “fall of capitalism,” “the dismantling of the prison-industrial complex,” “the liberation of Puerto Rico,” and the toppling of “monuments that serve as a reminder of oppression and white supremacy.” Acts spoke of Yemen, of thousands of migrants dying as they try to cross the Mediterranean, and of the prisoners Oscar Lopez Rivera and Chelsea Manning gaining freedom.
Photos copyright 2017 Greg Cook.
“Rotten Idea Theater Company” act during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Domestic Insurrection Circus” at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)Horse act during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Domestic Insurrection Circus” at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)Backstage before Bread and Puppet Theater performed its circus at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Domestic Insurrection Circus” at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Domestic Insurrection Circus” at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Domestic Insurrection Circus” at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)“For the liberation of Puerto Rico” act during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Domestic Insurrection Circus” at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)A giant washerwoman confronts fiery demons in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Domestic Insurrection Circus” at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)Bread and Puppet Theater tears down a “Confederate Monument” during its circus at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. “We ask whose lives and which histories do we honor in public.” (Greg Cook)Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Domestic Insurrection Circus” at First Church, Cambridge, Sept. 3, 2017. (Greg Cook)
