{"id":23650,"date":"2023-08-31T07:37:31","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T11:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=23650"},"modified":"2023-08-31T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T14:49:20","slug":"bread-puppet-circus-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2023\/08\/31\/bread-puppet-circus-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread & Puppet Circus Coming To Cambridge, Lawrence This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend Bread and Puppet Theater<\/a> begins a tour of its “The Heart of the Matter Circus” with shows in Cambridge and Lawrence, Massachusetts. (See schedule below.) Admission is free. Donations are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stilt dancers, papier-mach\u00e9 beasts, and a brass band perform a raucous spectacle of protest and slapstick satire and celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The show, Bread and Puppet co-founder Peter Schumann says, is \u201cin response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation, not only the hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily sacrificed pandemic victims but our culture\u2019s unwillingness to recognize Mother Earth\u2019s revolt against our civilization. Since we earthlings do not live up to our earthling obligations, we need resurrection circuses to yell against our own stupidity.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Circus changes from week to week as it\u2019s performed each Sunday in July and August at the theater’s home in Glover, Vermont, then goes on tour in the fall. In the version I saw in Glover at the end of July, a giant Mother Earth puppet watched as kids successfully sued to stop oil extractors, who complained \u201cBut that would require massive societal changes!?!\u201d The Gates of Hell opened to reveal a dance of flamingos (masked performers and stilters). They called for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be freed. They rejected of climate doom-sayers: \u201cWe are not going to die! Stop this goddamn climate catastrophe!\u201d They demonstrated how women of the Middle East \u201cuse handkerchiefs as a tool of protest.\u201d Peter Schumann played violin and critiqued the Russia versus Ukraine war: \u201cPuppet president of NATO pours in as many weapons as they can to promote peace.\u201d They sang tributes to puppeteers who had died. As puppet animals paraded by, the 19th century Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin urged, \u201cNatural selection always seeks new ways to avoid competition. \u2026 Competition is injurious and unnecessary. Instead combine in mutual aid.\u201d A climate-denier from the Petroleum Institute got swallowed by a giant wave, followed by a tribute to workers repairing Vermont roads after the summer flooding. Honey bees danced “to a better society.\u201d The Rotten Idea Theater Co. unleashed cluster bombs. \u201cAn Ode to the Summer Siesta.\u201d An act noted the 80th anniversary of the debut of Aaron Copeland\u2019s \u201cFanfare for the Common Man,\u201d and the 70th anniversary of Copeland\u2019s interrogation by Republican U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy: \u201cAre you now or have you ever been a communist? Have you ever had an abortion? Have you ever read a banned book?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And, of course, after each show Bread and Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli (free) and Bread and Puppet\u2019s \u201cCheap Art\u201d \u2013 books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press \u2013 will be for sale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tour schedule<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 Friday, September 1, 2023, at 6 p.m. – Hancock, VT
\u2022 Saturday, September 2, 2023, at 4 p.m. – Cambridge, MA
\u2022 Sunday, September 3, 2023, at 4 p.m. – Portland, ME
\u2022 Monday, September 4, 2023 (Labor Day), at 5 p.m. – Lawrence, MA
\u2022 Thursday, September 7, 2023, at 6 p.m. – Vernon, NJ
\u2022 Friday, September 8, 2023, at 4 and 8 p.m. – Brooklyn, NY
\u2022 Saturday, September 9, 2023, at 4 p.m. – Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
\u2022 Sunday, September 10, 2023, at 5:30 p.m. – Easthampton, MA
\u2022 Monday, September 11, 2023, at 6 p.m. – Pittsford, VT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Previously:<\/strong> Lots of earlier coverage of Bread and Puppet Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Peter Schumann (left) performs in Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater performs “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Peter Schumann (center) directing a rehearsal of the giant Mother Earth puppet for Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Peter Schumann (center) directing a rehearsal of Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Puppets lined up for Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater rehearsing the opening of “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rehearsing the giant Mother Earth puppet for Bread and Puppet Theater’s “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater rehearsing “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread and Puppet Theater rehearsing “The Heart of the Matter” Circus, Glover, Vermont, Sunday, July 30, 2023. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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