{"id":13248,"date":"2019-09-01T13:47:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T17:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=13248"},"modified":"2019-09-07T10:41:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T14:41:37","slug":"bread-puppet-circus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2019\/09\/01\/bread-puppet-circus-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Bread And Puppet’s ‘Diagonal Life Circus’ in Cambridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bread and Puppet Theater<\/a> brought their “Diagonal Life Circus” to Cambridge Common yesterday afternoon, as the culminating performance of Cambridge Arts\u2019 free, annual Summer In The City<\/a> series. (I work part-time for Cambridge Arts.)<\/p>\n

“Reality is either horizontal or vertical or both. The horizontal produces us, and eventually takes us back into its giant arms\u2019 embrace. The vertical is the exceptional human predicament, the up- and forward-striding ambition that makes history and warfare,\u201d Bread and Puppet Director Peter Schumann has said. “The diagonal results from the hurts that the vertical suffers in the process. It is our common human fate, the hard-to-sustain-in-between life, neither up nor down that needs to muster all its strength to lift itself up and the courage to invent tricks that keep it from falling.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Death rides during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The circus honored \u201ctrans lives cut short\u201d and the ideals of the Haitian Revolution of 1804. It challenged pipeline development that threatens water (\u201cWater is life!\u201d performers shouted), the treatment of migrant families, winter depression, and court rulings limiting access to abortion. The circus featured an \u201cInternational Coalition of Swimmers Against the Economic Tide\u201d (they were washed away by a tidal wave), flags, stilters, a brass band, and puppet ponies, tigers and deities. After the performance, the troupe served the audience their famous sourdough rye bread with garlic aioli.<\/p>\n

Bread and Puppet’s \u201cFall 2019 New England Little Big Tour\u201d<\/a> is bringing the circus to towns across New England: to the Bread and Roses Labor Heritage Festival in Lawrence, Massachusetts, at 4:20 p.m. Sept. 2; to the Sanctuary at Shephardsfield in East Haddam, Connecticut, at 7 p.m. Sept. 5; to Bard College at Annendale-on-Hudson, New York, at 3 p.m. Sept. 7; and to Park Hill Orchard in Easthampton, Massachusetts, at 3 p.m. Sept. 8.<\/p>\n

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The opening of Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tiger act during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A migrant mother is threatened by birds during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Immigration agents kidnap a migrant mother’s baby during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A giant water puppet during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A call to “Celebrate and Protect Trans Lives” during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Stilters-burglars swipe a giant diamond during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The Bread and Puppet Theater band plays during its “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Anti-pipeline act during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tiger act during Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A garbage man greets an audience member before Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs its “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater’s “Diagonal Life Circus” at Cambridge Common, Aug. 31, 2019. (Greg Cook)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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