Bread & Puppet Theater: Total This & That Circus
| Hours: | Held outdoors rain or shine on Sunday, September 1st at 3 pm. |
| Ages: | Infants, Toddlers, Kids, Teens, Adults |
| In/Outdoor: | Outdoor |
| Cost: | Free see below |
| Category: | Theater & Shows |
As part of a world-wide 50th birthday celebration, the award-winning Bread & Puppet Theater from Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom presents their 'Total This & That Circus' on the Cambridge Common.
The theater champions a visually rich slapstick style of street-theater that is filled with huge puppets made of paper maché and cardboard, combined with masked characters, improvisational dance movement, political commentary, and a lively brass band for accompaniment.
The company’s performances are described by The New York Times as 'a spectacle for the heart and soul.'
Bread & Puppet is based on a large farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom.
It was founded by Peter Schumann, German born artist-dancer, in 1963, and for the next decade his giant puppets figured prominently in anti-Vietnam War demonstrations in New York City, Washington DC and other cities in the US and abroad.
In 1970, an invitation from Vermont's Goddard College to be theater-in-residence, facilitated a longed-for change to country life.
'Our Domestic Resurrection Circus,' an outdoor festival of music, art, puppetry and pageantry, began then, and ran almost every summer, growing to crowds of tens of thousands, until 1998.
Since then, a smaller (but with giant puppets intact), more dispersed version continues on Sundays in July and August; the company continues touring and workshopping the rest of the year in New England and around the globe; and Schumann continues as director and artist — and bread baker.
Bread & Puppet is one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-sustaining theatrical companies in this country.
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Free performance [pass-the-hat donations welcome].
| WEBSITE | ↑ top |
breadandpuppet.org/tour-schedule
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Mass. Ave. and Waterhouse St., Cambridge, MA, 02138 map
Phone: 617-286-6694
On the Cambridge Common, near the intersection of Mass. Ave. and Waterhouse St., Cambridge. MA 02138.
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- Please take note that if some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, accompanying children can usually explain them. The audience is welcome to examine all the masks and puppets after the performance, and Cheap Art will be for sale
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