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Summer Circus, Mass and Pageant 2024 – Tickets On Sale Now!

Photo credit: Garrett MacLean

EARLY SUMMER SHOWS & EVENTS

MUSEUM OPENING – an afternoon of music and puppetshows to celebrate the opening of the B&P Museum for the summer
2 p.m. June 2nd

JUNE SUNDAY SHOWS
3 p.m. June 9th-July 7th in the Papier Maché Cathedral
Show Title(s) TBD

JULY -AUGUST

EVERY SATURDAY SHOWS
July 13th-August 31st in the Circus Field
2 p.m. Sideshows
3 p.m. Circus (title TBD) followed by Mass (title TBD)

EVERY SUNDAY SHOWS
July 14th-August 25th in the Circus Field
2 p.m. Sideshows
3 p.m. Circus (title TBD) followed by Pageant (title TBD)
5 p.m. Possible guest performer

FALL SCHEDULE

POLITICAL LEAF PEEPING – our last event of the season with music and puppetshows
2 p.m. October 6th

Please click here for Tickets.

A bit about our summer circus: This summer Bread & Puppet will once again proudly present our traditional summer Circus, a brand-new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970. As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes as well as beloved Bread & Puppet characters and iconography to draw attention to the urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.

The show, says Schumann, is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation…our culture’s unwillingness to recognize Mother Earth’s revolt against our civilization. Since we earthlings do not live up to our earthling obligations, we need resurrection circuses to yell against our own stupidity.”

After the show we will serve our 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 at the Circus Field Store as well as in the Bread & Puppet Museum, right across Rt. 122. 

We hope to see you this summer!

Sincerely,

Bread & Puppet Theater

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ALL SHOWS will continue Rain or Shine but will Cancel for Flooding.

Friends, travelers and neighbors.

Bread and Puppet will continue to put on our performances Every Saturday and Sunday at 3 PM rain or shine. But, due to the unprecedented amount of rain that has been hitting Vermont will have to cancel for major Flooding. A major issue we face is that our parking lot, which is mainly a grassy field, keeps getting compromised from all of the consistent rain and flooding. We are currently working on improving our drainage infrastructure and coming up with creative ideas to tackle this issue.

Any tickets purchased for any Cancelled performance will be accepted for all future circuses and performances, no check-in or logistical work required.
If anyone is in need of a refund, please feel free to email [email protected]

We are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience and disappointment this might cause in the future . We hope that the weather will lighten up as the summer goes on and this doesn’t continue to be a problem.

Thank You

Bread and Puppet Theater

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Kompass String Quartet:  Every Saturday July 15th – August 26th at 2pm in the Paper Mache Cathedral

Come join us for an afternoon of chamber music and puppetry every Saturday of the summer! This event is free, no tickets required and is a prologue to our 3pm show!

Beginning at 2 PM, the KOMPASS String Quartet will be performing Charlie Morrow’s recomposition of Beethoven’s ‘Große Fuge’ – The Grand Fugue, one of the 6 late string quartets, which were composed when Beethoven suffered from complete hearing loss. Morrow emphasizes the temporal contradictions of the original piece by adding what he calls 7 lifts – parts of the Beethoven piece stretched in time.

The performance will happen in our Paper Mache Cathedral and will run for 40 minutes, followed by a short 20 minutes break before our 3 p.m. Idiots of the World Unite Against the Idiot System show and our 4:30 p.m. Mother Dirt Church Services, held in the same venue. We request that visitors stay for the entirety of the KOMPASS quartet’s piece, in order to respect the intensity of the work and craft of the performers. We will not be admitting late comers.

The members of the string quartet are Jessica Gehring and Jade Schoolcraft on violin, Matthew Ryan on viola and Victoria Lin on cello. We are so excited to have them!

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THE CIRCUS AND PAGEANT will continue Rain or Shine but will Cancel for Flooding

Friends, travelers and neighbors.

Bread and Puppet will continue to put on our performances Every Saturday and Sunday at 3 PM rain or shine. But, due to the unprecedented amount of rain that has been hitting Vermont will have to cancel for Flooding. A major issue we face is that our parking lot, which is mainly a grassy field, keeps getting compromised from all of the consistent rain and flooding. We are currently working on improving our drainage infrastructure and coming up with creative ideas to tackle this issue.

Any tickets purchased for any Cancelled performance will be accepted for all future circuses and performances, no check-in or logistical work required.
If anyone is in need of a refund, please feel free to email [email protected]

We are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience and disappointment this might cause in the future . We hope that the weather will lighten up as the summer goes on and this doesn’t continue to be a problem.

Thank You

Bread and Puppet Theater

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What’s Happening at Bread and Puppet (updated 7/28/22)

Summer Schedule

The Anti Apocalypse Propaganda Circus

Will be performed every Sunday starting July 10th thru August 28th

(Volunteer Rehearsals will be at Saturday Volunteer Rehearsal @ 2:30pm and Sunday Kids/Volunteers rehearsal and 10am  Run in the circus ring)

Sideshows at 2pm Throughout the Parking Lot.

Circus at 3pm in the Circus Ring

Pageant at 4:10pm  Starting July 17th in the Pageant Field

Followed by Guest Performances throughout the summer in the Dirt-Floor Cathedral

You can buy tickets by clicking here or you can pay by Donation at the entrance

No one turned away for a lack of funds!

*COVID PROTOCOLS*

Masks are required in all indoor spaces (Museum and Dirt-Floor Cathedral).

Masks are also highly recommended when walking around through crowded paths and spaces.

We ask that all audience members be vaccinated or test Negative for Covid within 48 hrs of the performance. For Covid testing resources in Vermont click here.

All Covid Protocols are subject to change based on recommendations by the CDC and the State of Vermont. Thank you for your understanding!

The University of Majd Every Friday at 6:30pm through the rest of the summer!

Bread & Puppet to premier new show, University of Majd, this August. Majd Ziadeh, a young Palestinian man, was detained at age 19 with all the other men in his building, tortured, sentenced to 30 years in an Israeli military prison in 2002. Thanks to the work of lawyers and activists, his sentence was commuted and he was released earlier this year. University highlights the conditions that allowed for Majd’s unjust imprisonment, and celebrates his release.

The play draws its title from the fact that many Palestinians refer to time spent in Israeli prisons, with dark irony, as “University,” a grim rite of passage for a significant percentage of young Palestinians. 

University of Majd will play Friday evenings this August at 6:30 p.m. outside The Paper Maché Cathedral at Bread & Puppet Theater. 

Admission to “The University of Majd” will be by suggested donation of $10-$25 at the door. Tickets will not be sold online for this show. 

No one will be turned away due to a lack of funds!

In case of rain the show will be performed inside the Cathedral with limited seating capacity (110 seats) and a strict masking required policy.

Memorials:

Memorial sing for Elka Schumann and Larry Gordon Tuesday August 2nd at 7pm 

Remi Pillard and Genevieve Memorial Wednesday August 3rd at 4:30pm

Woodshed Gallery Exhibitions:

Maria Bueno July 3rd – July 30th

Jonas Fricke July 31st – August 28th

Weekly Events:

Shape Note Sing every Tuesday in/front of the Cathedral @ 7:30pm (Mask Required)

Volunteer Poster Painting Every Friday 3-5pm for more info email [email protected]

Band Rehearsal Every Saturday at 730pm in front of the Paper Mache Cathedral vaccination required for more info email [email protected]

For any questions please contact [email protected]

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The Theory Of Our Needs will be at 6:30pm every Friday through the rest of the summer!

The Theory Of Our Needs will be at 6:30pm every Friday through the rest of the summer!

The Theory of Our Needs is about the fake and real needs as we inherit them and as we are educated to them. Our childish capacity to see no distinction between need and want has been sold into slavery by our merchant culture. Singing the hymn of need and dancing pragmatic utilitarianism into the moment-at-hand is reserved for toddlers only. The mature homo sapiens has lost that intelligence. We need dirt on our feet and whistles to drive our brain from its prison into the void.

Admission to “The Theory of Our Needs” will be by suggested donation of $10-$25 at the door. 

No one will be turned away due to a lack of funds!

In case of rain the show will be performed inside the Cathedral with limited seating capacity (110 seats) and a strict masking required policy.