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Follow on Google News | Bread & Puppet Theater: 3 separate shows, w/"Oratorio" and "Circuses" in Boston area, Labor Day wkndThe award-winning Bread & Puppet Theater takes its annual Labor Day weekend "little big tour" down to the Boston area, this year not only bringing a new "Insurrection Oratorio," but also their new "The Nothing Is Not Ready Circus."
By: Bread & Puppet Theater Detailed listings information: Bread & Puppet Theater: Insurrection Oratorio Saturday, Aug. 30, 7 pm, rain or shine The Quarry, Contemporary Arts International, 68 Quarry Road, Acton, MA 01720 [Closest stop on the Fitchburg Line commuter rail: South Acton Station, 3 miles biking distance.] $20 general admission ("walk-in discount" $10), $35 per carload (over 3 people $10 each); tickets available at the door (cash or check only) or general admission in advance at www.brownpapertickets.com/ For more information: Description: Bread & Puppet Theater: The Nothing Is Not Ready Circus Sunday, Aug. 31, 3 pm, rain or shine Magazine Beach Park (along the Charles River), 719 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 [Located at the foot of Magazine St., across from Trader Joe's and the Micro Center; in close proximity to the Red Line stop: Central Square Station, less than 1 mile walking/biking distance.] Pass-the-hat donation, rain location TBA. For more information: Description: Bread & Puppet Theater: The Nothing Is Not Ready Circus Monday, Sept. 1, 4 pm performance (entire festival runs noon-5pm), rain or shine 30th Annual Bread & RosesHeritage Festival, Lawrence Common, Lawrence, MA 01840 [Located in close proximity to the Haverhill commuter rail stop: Lawrence Station, less than 1 mile walking/biking distance.] The Festival is free & open to all, festival donations welcome. For more information: Description: BRIEF BACKGROUND ON BREAD & PUPPET THEATER Now in its 51st year, the Bread & Puppet Theater is one of the oldest and most unique self-sustaining nonprofit theatrical companies in the United States. 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 & Puppetis based on a large farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. The theater was founded in 1963 on the Lower East Side of New York City by Peter Schumann, a German born artist-dancer, 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. Indoor performances were both simpler and more complex, ranging from quiet, intense masked shows ("Fire", "Man Says Good-Bye") with 4-6 players, to huge, lengthy spectacles ("Cry of the People for Meat"). In 1970, an invitation from Vermont's Goddard College to be theater-in-residence, facilitated a longed-for change to country life. The theater’s renowned "Our Domestic Resurrection Circus," a two day outdoor festival of music, art, puppetry and pageantry, began back then at Goddard, and ran almost every summer – first at Goddard from 1970-1973, then continuing up through 1998 at the theater’s current home in Glover, VT -- drawing crowds of tens of thousands. 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 — with a vengeance! www.breadandpuppet.org End
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