Reminder: Bread and Puppet Tomorrow and Saturday at St. Stephens!!
Puppet Underground
Friday- https://www.facebook.com/events/1685692501686222/
Saturday- https://www.facebook.com/events/224683307886577/
And please forward the invite email below far and wide! Now with a cool flyer (see attached)!
We hope you can make it and thanks in advance for your help with promotion!
-Puppet Underground
The Public Access Center for the Obvious Presents: The Situation!
Friday April 8th and Saturday April 9th at 8:00 pm
at St. Stephen's Church
1525 Newton St NW, Washington DC 20010
corner of 16th St and Newton St NW
(a few blocks from the Columbia Heights metro)
This is a new work written and directed by Bread & Puppet's founder Peter Schumann. This musical and dark clown-show features cardboard horses, an anti-extinction angel, proletariat broom dancers, a 100 watt lightbulb, a ship of fools, and a swinging brass band: all of whom are urging the Not-Yet-Existing-Upriser-Masses into reality.
The show is appropriate for all ages, but may be more interesting for children ages 10 and up.
Ticket Info: $10-$15 suggested donation at the door. No one turned away for lack of funds.
RSVP for the facebook events:
Friday- https://www.facebook.com/events/1685692501686222/
Saturday- https://www.facebook.com/events/224683307886577/
The Bread & Puppet Theater is one of the oldest non-profit, self- supporting theater companies in the U.S. The theater has been enacting its radical utopian vision in cardboard and cloth for over forty years, from the spectacle of its larger-than-life puppets at Vietnam War protests in New York City, to the pageantry of its annual event, Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, in Glover, Vermont, which ran for over 25 years. The Domestic Resurrection regularly attracted audiences in the tens of thousands up to the late 1990’s.
Dubbed a "living national treasure" by The New York Times, Bread and Puppet Theater, under the direction of German-born sculptor Peter Schumann, has toured internationally for more than 35 years. The Vermont-based troupe performs on urgent social, political, and environmental issues. According to the Christian Science Monitor, "To live in America and never see the Bread and Puppet Theater perform is like living in Egypt and never seeing the pyramids."
Author and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has praised “the genius of Peter Schumann, the prodigious puppet-God,” writing that “the Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America’s conscious struggle for our better selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.”
Schumann founded Bread and Puppet Theater in 1963 in New York City. Hand-puppet shows for children and rod-puppet shows for the street were produced from early experiments. Later, complex stylized compositions with masked performers, over-life-sized effigies, improvised music and narration astounded adult audiences. The company has won distinction at international theater festivals in Italy, Poland, France, Venezuela, and South Korea. Awards include the Erasmus Prize of Amsterdam, two off-Broadway Obie Awards, the Puppeteers of America President's Award, a Guggenheim Award, the Vermont Governor's Award, and numerous trophies from local small-town parades.
The company currently tours new and old productions, on the American continent and abroad, and sells Bread & Puppet Press posters and publications.
WHO IS PUPPET UNDERGROUND?
We are a puppeteer's collective in DC committed to using art and performance to support movements and grassroots organizing for social and economic justice. We offer community art workshops, street theater shows, puppets, stilters, and help developing creative organizing strategies. We also do occasional public performances and bring touring puppet shows to DC.
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