Bread and Puppet Theater

Description

The circus is coming! The circus is coming! Bread and Puppet Thea-tre’s circus, that is. On Sunday, September 7th, Town Hall Theater presents the premiere of Bread + Puppet’s annual circus tour at the Addison County Fair Grounds in Vergennes, Vermont. The performance of Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution in Progress! will be set against the iconic Bread + Puppet hand-painted bus – and begin with Bread & Puppet’s brass band at 4:10pm, with the show to start at 4:30pm.

This year’s show will be a spectacle of protest and celebration that addresses the urgent themes of the moment using paper maché, dance, and a live brass band. In Bread & Puppet’s words: “The Circus is back with Anti-Empire Art that acknowledges our beloved Mother Dirt, who makes us and unmakes us, and who presents urgently needed domestic resurrection services. Join us for a serious and silly circus!”

Circus is perhaps the most iconic of the many performance genres for which Bread & Pup-pet is known. A Bread & Puppet Circus is a large-scale political puppet show which borrows from traditional Circus tropes and is performed in-the-round. Made up of a bright, raucous melee of short acts using diverse puppetry styles, it spans many moods, from slapstick to the sublime. After the show, Bread and Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale.