most recent touring show…
Soldier of Flesh & Cardboard
(Pfc. Manning & Truth)
As everybody knows puppetshows are strictly for amusement or irreverent funmaking. But ever so often puppetshows have to deal with subjectmatter that is either hidden from public view or got distorted on its way to the public.
This show is dedicated to the courageous soldier Bradley Manning, who revealed the truth, where the truth didn’t want to be revealed & now suffers the consequences for it.
The show is in 2 parts.
Part 1: Modern Sky is based on classified Defense Department recordings which document a helicopter massacre of civilians in Baghdad. Life-size, black + white cardboard cut-out puppets & live original music & sound.
Part 2: Manning is about the 23-year old soldier who is accused of leaking this & other secret documents of atrocities to Wikileaks & about the soldier’s incarceration & solitary confinement in the brig in Virginia. A cardboard demonstration & dance of various forms of deprevation & cruelty, ending in a hopeful thought of the soldier Manning.
every Friday night
July 6th- August 24th
in the Paper Mache Cathedral
7:30 pm
Donations accepted
The Lubberland National Dance Company was created in the early 2000′s by Peter Schumann, and he choreographs the dances. Lubberland workshops, led by Maura Gahan, can include from six to sixty participants of all ages and from all walks of life, no dance training required. There are Friday evening performances all July and August on the Bread & Puppet Farm, and occasional tours on the East Coast, Canada, Mexico and now, France.
Lubberland specializes in problem-solving dances, victory dances for victories and collateral damage dances for victims, wedding dances for normally hostile populations and their rulers, national funeral dances in response to the most recent wars of Lubberland, and total peace and harmony dances with no meaning whatsoever.
For more information, please contact:
Maura Gahan
753 Heights Rd
Glover VT
05839
(802)525-3031
