Our friends Bread & Puppet Theater bring their “Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress Circus” to Cambridge Common on Saturday, Sept. 13, 2025, at 4 p.m. in partnership with Cambridge Arts (where I work). Admission is free–donations encouraged. The performance is part of the Vermont company’s fall tour across New England, to Brooklyn, then west to Chicago and New Orleans and San Antonio. (See other Northeast dates below.)
Co-founder and director Peter Schumann says the circus offers “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.”
This circus is a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont, in 1970. As usual, the show draws on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread & Puppet iconography to bring attention to the urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, papier-maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.
After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.
Other Northeast tour dates: Wednesday, September 10 – Montpelier, VT Thursday, September 11 – Ashburnham, MA Friday, September 12 – Easthampton, MA Saturday, September 13 – Cambridge, MA Sunday, September 14 – Portland, ME Tuesday, September 16 – Hartford, CT Wednesday, September 17 – Redding, CT Thursday, September 18 – New Haven, CT Friday, September 19 – Brooklyn, NY
