Bread & Puppet in New York City!
For the 38th year Bread & Puppet
returns to Theater for the New City
from December 3-13, 2009
presenting two shows:
Tear Open the Door of Heaven
Wednesday - Sunday, December 3 - 13
8PM
A pink and blue puppet show about Heaven and its effects on the Underneath, presented by the practitioners of the brand-new paper maché religion. The play features over life size puppets representing God, his daughter and stepdaughter, a US president and his war-waging office, mountaintop removal protesters, money printing artists and stargazers of the North East Kingdom of Vermont. The six acts of the play are supplemented by six dance interventions performed by the Lubberland National Dance Company, whose members are mostly local volunteers.
AND
The Dirt Cheap Money Circus
Saturday & Sunday 5-6 & 12-13
3PM
It features the billionaire bonus celebration dance, the logic of the US Healthcare System, the history of humanity and the removal of a mountaintop, interspersed with appearances by Karl Marx, who confronts the 2009 economic situation with his existential thoughts about money and our relationship to it. As always, there is a live band.
If you would like to volunteer to be in the shows, email puppetsecretary@yahoo.com.
Tickets & Directions are available at http://www.theaterforthenewcity.net/bread.htm
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The Lubberland National Dance Company
NOW BOOKING!
B&P presents… The Lubberland National Dance Company’s, “13 Dirt Floor Cathedral Dances“
The 13 Dirt Floor Cathedral Dances originate in the paper mache cathedral in Glover, VT, but can also be performed anywhere, provided there is a sprinkle of dirt from the cathedral floor.
The dances include: a forest admiration dance, danced by a NYC rushhour crowd, a deforestation dance, danced by the deforestors to make place for their cars, the dance of the foolish woman, who tries to bring back to life the victims of the bombardments on Gaza, a sermon dance danced by the deeply superstitious practitioners of the paper mache religion and also seven 7-second dances, danced to the sounds of the We-Do-As-Good-As-We-Can Orchestra.
All dancers are professional non-dancers who excel in the advantages of non-professionalism and all are members of the Lubberland National Dance Company. This show is learned and performed in one day by 10-30 local volunteers.
BRING LUBBERLAND TO YOU!
Fall Tour 2009: Appalachian Tour, Sept 19- Oct 11th (check Tour Schedule for venues)
Spring BIKE Tour 2010: Pacific Northwest, May-June (now booking)
For more information, please contact:
Maura Gahan
753 Heights Rd
Glover VT
05839
lubberland@riseup.net
(802)525-3031
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Bread and Puppet Museum Hours
Bread and Puppet Museum, one of the largest collections of some of the biggest puppets in the world, continues to be open daily from 10 am - 6 pm until November 1st, and after that, by appointment. Free admission. Donations welcome.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF MAJD
The Story of a Palestinian Youth
The University of Majd is an exhibit of 7 large latex paintings on lightweight fabric and 80 small flower paintings that are meant to surround or separate the panels.
I learned about Majd’s fate from his family whom I met on a recent visit (September 2007) to Ramallah. The text on the panels is from emails which Ed Mast of Seattle, an old friend of Majd’s family, sent home as the case unfolded. I used shroud fabric for the large paintings and discarded window shades and other scrap materials for the flowers to pay my respects to the gigantic garbage problem of Palestine.
Five panels measure approximately 12’ x 7’; one 7’ x 4’; the title panel 10’ x 5.5’.
The exhibit is available on loan for the price of shipping. If you are interested please email Linda Elbow at breadpup@together.net
Peter Schumann
Bread and Puppet Theater
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