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| | Hello from a highway on the way from Portland, ME to Hartford, CT! Tour is off to an exciting start. We have played seven shows so far, to some really great audiences. Bread & Puppet touring is largely impossible, but we Possibilitarians and a wide network of community supporters find a way to host our bus, rally a crowd, feed us, house us, and cheer at the final bow. Below, check out some recollections from our first week on the road. Thank you to everyone who is making this tour possible!
We’re still on tour through the end of October. Check out our website for details and tickets. |
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| | | | Quick Changes Backstage
“This is my first tour with Bread & Puppet. I’ve loved running in and out of puppets, costume changes, and trying to take my stilts off as quick as possible. I especially love being a dancing bear in the Creation act. After the show, I share the treasures at the Cheap Art Emporium and interact with the audience. Full of gratitude!” - AK |
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| | Dispatch from Bread Crew
“Peter Schumann says that the theater is just a vehicle for serving bread, not the other way around. We serve bread after the show, we're all sharing bread. We're eating together. It’s so meaningful!” - Hilo |
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| | A Possibilitarian Rescue
“On our way to Ashburnham, MA, our bus would not go past 5mph… Luckily we were able to limp the bus to a nearby shop who got her back running a day later. Our hosts from New Dawn Arts drove an hour to our rescue with a UHaul and rides for the puppeteers so that the show could go on!” - Gil |
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| | Huge Crowds
“We’ve had some huge audiences! Our dear friend Russell at Park Hill Orchard counted 800 cars, and we think it was about 1,500 people seeing the Easthampton show. The cheering for the Washerwoman, the booing at The System, it was so much sound and so fun to play to.” - Paul |
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| | Go Packers!
“We learned the Genevieve Method of box-packing from Caitlin and El, and we’ve fallen in love with backstage.” - Abi
“It’s crazy! People brought so much stuff. Like, five instruments per person! It’s impossible but we make it possible!” - Pia
“I didn’t choose to have a big instrument! It chose me.” - Sari |
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| Tour continues through October! |
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| | Ladles and Jellyspoons! The one and only Bread & Puppet Circus is hitting the road with Anti-Empire Art that acknowledges our beloved Mother Dirt, who makes us and unmakes us, and who presents urgently needed domestic resurrection services for the victims of this latest genocide. We are joined by Palestinian cranes on their way to Washington to replace the excrement in the White House with organic bird droppings, green frogs who teach the art of hopping over seemingly insurmountable problems, and gaggles of kindergarten butterflies who frolic to their hearts’ desire. Join us for a serious and silly circus: Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress!
After each show, Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale. |
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| Tour Schedule Tuesday, September 16 – Hartford, CT Wednesday, September 17 – Redding, CT Thursday, September 18 – New Haven, CT Friday, September 19 – Brooklyn, NY Saturday, September 20 – Hopewell, NJ Sunday, September 21 – Wallkill, NY Wednesday, September 24 & Thursday, September 25 – Baltimore, MD Friday, September 26 – Seeking a venue between Baltimore and Akron! Saturday, September 27 – Akron, OH Sunday, September 28 – Ypsilanti, MI Tuesday, September 30 – Chicago, IL Wednesday, October 1 – Urbana, IL Thursday, October 2 – Cincinnati, OH Friday, October 3 – Cincinnati, OH Saturday, October 4 – Valparaiso, IN Tuesday, October 7 – Louisville, KY Wednesday, October 8 – Seeking a venue in or near Nashville, TN! Thursday, October 9 & Friday, October 10 – Tuscaloosa, AL Saturday, October 11 – New Orleans, LA Tuesday, October 14 – Houston, TX Wednesday, October 15 – San Antonio, TX Thursday, October 16 – Austin, TX Friday, October 17 – Seeking a venue in or near Dallas! Saturday, October 18 – Oklahoma City, OK Sunday, October 19 – Fayetteville, AR Tuesday, October, October 21 – Seeking a venue in or near Kansas City! Thursday, October 23-Sunday, October 26 – St. Louis
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| | Autumn Screams + Possibilitarian Hallelujahs of the Servants of the Abyss
Sundays, September 21 and 28 at 3pm
We the involuntary servants of the abyss, both: the wounded universe abyss and the abysmal empire abyss, are charged with the possibilitarian task of revolutionizing the human abyss – not to allow the empire’s rotten apples to spoil the Autumn’s applesauce, because of the invincible because! Because we children of mother dirt need to be nourished by real applesauce while spreading poppy flag wisdom throughout the hills and valleys of the here, not succumbing to empire normality. All our banners say Yes and kick the arse of the No and can’t be stopped from marching even when thunder and lightning threaten the day. Whether the weather is good or whether the weather is bad, whatever the weather we’ll weather the weather, whether we like it or not.
Join us for a new show, and weather the weather with us. $15 tickets, no one turned away for lack of funds. |
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| | | Later this fall on the B&P Farm |
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| | Graphic images chiseled into masonite, printed, and painted on cloth and paper have been an integral part of Bread + Puppet Theater’s shows since the early sixties. Peter Schumann, Bread + Puppet’s founder, director and artist, created and continues to create the contents – both pictures and texts – of nearly all our publications and posters. |
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| | | | Help sustain our cardboard radicality! |
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| | Founded in 1963 by Peter & Elka Schumann, Bread & Puppet is one of the oldest nonprofit, political theater companies in the country.
“We have two types of puppet shows: good ones and bad ones, but all of them are for good and against evil.” -Peter Schumann |
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