Photos: Honk Festival Parade 2018
In this afternoon’s Honk Parade, dozens of bands and activist and community groups marched from Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge. Thousands lined the streets for this…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread & Puppet’s ‘Grasshopper Rebellion Circus’ In Cambridge
Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus,” which they performed yesterday on Cambridge Common, offered slapstick and social criticism along with “celestial grasshoppers” who come to earth “when the…Continue Reading →
Photos: In Bread & Puppet’s ‘Grasshopper Rebellion Circus,’ Slapstick And Giant Puppets Challenge ICE, Global Warming, Capitalism
This summer’s version of Bread and Puppet Theater’s celebrated circus—“The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus”—has been criticizing the federal Immigration Customs Enforcement agency (ICE), global warming and capitalism. It’s been honoring a…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Or Else’ Channels The Forebodings Of Fascism Across The Land
Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Or Else” is a show about dark times in the land, channeling a national sense of things gone dangerously wrong, of wicked people in charge who…Continue Reading →
Paradox Teatro’s Shadow Puppet Show ‘Migraciones’ Illuminates The Harrowing Journeys Of Refugees
“Refugee puppetry and poetry in English and Español,” is how Paradox Teatro has described their shadow puppet show “Migraciones.” “In light of expanding border walls around the globe, ‘Migraciones’ follows…Continue Reading →
Bread & Puppet’s ‘Out-Of-Joint Hamlet’ Unearths The Play’s Strongmen To Reframe Shakespeare For The Trump Era
Bread And Puppet Theater’s “Out-of-Joint Hamlet”—which the legendary experimental, activist puppet and mask troupe is performing in their Paper Mache Cathedral in Glover, Vermont, on Friday nights at 7:30 through…Continue Reading →
When A Gun, ‘Symbol Of The Free,’ Turns On A School—Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Basic Bye-bye Show’
“When a legally purchased gun, symbol of the free, turns on a school and takes 17 lives, are the free still free? Or are they irresponsible and stupid?” The performer,…Continue Reading →
Responding To The Stoneman Douglas Massacre, Bread And Puppet’s Show Imagines Saying Goodbye To Guns
When “The Basic Bye-bye Show,” which Bread and Puppet Theater performs at Boston’s Spontaneous Celebrations from April 19 to 22, was developed in performances at the troupe’s Glover, Vermont, farm…Continue Reading →
Bread And Puppet Theater’s ‘Domestic Insurrection Circus’ in Cambridge
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…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Whatforward Circus’
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Whatforward Circus’ as photographed by Greg Cook in Glover, Vermont, during the weekend of Aug. 21, 2016. The family-friendly satirical, slapstick show poked at Donald Trump…Continue Reading →