{"id":29502,"date":"2026-08-31T20:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T00:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=29502"},"modified":"2026-09-01T02:46:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T06:46:26","slug":"bread-puppet-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2026\/08\/31\/bread-puppet-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread & Puppet\u2019s \u2018Upside Down World Circus\u2019 Coming To Cambridge And Lawrence 9\/6&7"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d<\/a> is a circus of stilters and dancing puppet horses and clowning puppet bears and giant sacred puppets towering over the circus ring. It\u2019s the circus they\u2019ll be bringing to Cambridge Common on Sunday, Sept. 6, and to Lawrence, Massachusetts, on Monday, Sept, 7, before heading out to Wisconsin and Arkansas and Georgia and New York. (Full tour schedule: https:\/\/breadandpuppet.org\/tour<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s circus that has changed, acts added, acts cut, as they performed it at the Bread & Puppet Farm in Glover, Vermont, each Sunday afternoon in July and August. When I saw it at the end of July, it was a circus that mocked AI oligarch Sam Altman. It mocked Trump\u2019s demolition of the East Wing of the White House and self-destructing repairs of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. It criticized the Trump administration’s murderous attacks on boats in the Caribbean, Trump’s attack on Venezuela, Trump\u2019s war on Iran, Trump\u2019s blockade of Cuba. It highlighted the plight of people imprisoned in ICE gulags and the severe sentences given to protesters of the Prairieland ICE gulag in Texas: \u201cThis case is a warning. Whatever is taken from me is taken from you. It might be these 23 strangers now, but it will be you tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a circus of poems and jokes and temptations and curses. “You cannot erase us, no matter how many of us you kill and kill and kill, all day every day,” one act quoted the Palestinian-American writer and activist Susan Abulhawa. “We are not rocks you can clear from the land. We are its very soil. We are her rivers and her trees and her stories. … One day your impunity and your arrogance will end \u2026 and Palestine will be free.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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If this is the kind of coverage of arts, cultures and activisms you appreciate, please support Wonderland by contributing to Wonderland on Patreon<\/a>. And sign up for our free, occasional newsletter<\/a> so that you don’t miss any of our reporting. (All content \u00a9 Greg Cook 2026 or the respective creato<\/em>rs.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Peter Schumann gives last minute guidance backstage before the start of Bread & Puppet Theater\u2019s \u201cUpside Down World Circus\u201d at the company’s Glover, Vermont, farm, July 26, 2026. (\u00a9Greg Cook photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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