Goodbye To Bread And Puppet’s Remi Paillard
Goodbye to our friend Remi Paillard, a part of the Bread and Puppet Theater for decades. He died Monday. Here are photos I took of him over a number of…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread & Puppet’s ‘Honey Let’s Go Home! Opera’
When people think of Bread and Puppet Theater, they naturally tend to think of the giant puppets and the garlic-slathered sourdough bread that the company serves after performances. But it…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life’ Challenges Baby Jails, Global Warming, The Unthinkable
“Reality is either horizontal or vertical or both,” a woman explains early in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis,” which the Vermont troupe performed at First Church…Continue Reading →
Photos: Honk Parade From Somerville To Cambridge
Honk!—the infectious street party and festival of activist street bands—paraded from Davis Square in Somerville to Harvard Square in Cambridge this afternoon and we where honored to be there. Photos…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread And Puppet’s ‘Diagonal Life Circus’ in Cambridge
Bread and Puppet Theater brought their “Diagonal Life Circus” to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon, as the culminating performance of Cambridge Arts’ free, annual Summer In The City series. (I work…Continue Reading →
Photos: Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life Circus’
Bread and Puppet Theater performed its “Diagonal Life Circus” at its home base in Glover, Vermont, at 3 p.m. each Sunday afternoon from July 7 to Aug. 25, 2019. I…Continue Reading →
Bread and Puppet Theater’s ‘Diagonal Life’ Addresses Politics, Migration, Global Warming
Three large brown papier-mâché puppets arrive on the blue curtained stage early on in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis.” The puppets depict head and hands, perhaps…Continue Reading →
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 →