Author: Bread & Puppet Theater

Summer Schedule

Our Domestic Resurrection Circus 

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

(Volunteer Rehearsals will be at 10 am Sunday mornings in the circus ring)

Sideshows at 2pm Throughout the Parking Lot and in front of the Pine Forest

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!

Woodshed Gallery Exhibitions:

Em Hexe June 5th – July 2nd

Maria Bueno July 3rd – July 30th

Jonas Fricke July 31st – August 28th

The Divinity Supply Company at La MaMa in /NYC 

June 30th, July 1st, and July 2nd at 8pm (Sat. At 3pm & 8pm)

A collaboration between The Boxcutter Collective and Bread and Puppet.

Join Us for the world premiere of Divinity Supply Company at La MaMa Experimental Theater  Club, Downstairs Theater 

Parades: (Line up is 1 hour before Parades for Volunteers)

Cabot Parade Monday July 4th at 11am 

Lyndonville Parade Saturday July 16th at 10 am

Weekly Events:

 

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

Memorials every Wednesday June 29th @ 7pm in the Pine Forest. (Accessibility parking available) 

Paper Mache Festivities will be every Thursday in the Clay Yard located to the left of the Main Museum Entrances @ 2:10pm starting June 16th

Volunteer Poster Painting Every Tuesday and Friday 3-5pm starting June 14th. For more info email [email protected]

For any questions please contact [email protected]

 

 

Peter Schumann founded the Bread and Puppet Theater in 1963 on New York City’s Lower East Side. Fifty-nine years later it remains one of the United State’s oldest non-profit, self-supporting theater companies, leaving an indelible stamp on the world of theater and the American cultural landscape. Schumann’s puppet shows range from tightly composed theater pieces presented by members of the company to extensive outdoor pageants which require the participation of many community volunteers.  Guided by a philosophy of living and working within the means available, Schumann’s aesthetic is inextricable from the paper maché  burlap, twine, and staples, that make up and literally hold the puppets and the shows together. This installation of masks, puppets, books, paper maché relief work, and paintings conveys Schumann’s deep commitment to the creative and political work which unites artists and communities in celebration and protest. Schumann says: “Ecstatic Decrepitude is presented on two floors. Bulky, big, oppressed and oppressive decrepitude obviously belongs upstairs, way above ecstasy, which hides in book pages and requires diligent reading on the 1st floor. The faces, idols, agitators and sufferers of the Naked Humanity Republic get entertained by Father Time who strikes the clock for them relentlessly…”

Fall 2022 Tour – Basic Information Booking Release

Booking inquiries please contact Paul Bedard [email protected]

Bread and Puppet’s Our Domestic Resurrection 

Fall Cross-country Tour, September-December 2022

The circus is coming! The circus is coming! The 58-year-old, Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater is currently seeking venues across the country to present its iconic puppet circus Fall 2022. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus is a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by a brass band, addressing the heart of the current moment with diverse puppetry styles and spanning many moods, from slapstick to the sublime. 

The show, director Peter Schumann says, is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation, not only the hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily sacrificed pandemic victims but 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 each show, Bread and Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread and Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press – will be for sale. 

Show Length: Approximately 1 hour. 

WEATHER

In general, we will perform through a light rain, pause a performance if heavy rain comes, and end a show prematurely if heavy rain persists. If consistent heavy rain is forecasted for the scheduled time of a performance, we may decide to cancel in advance. 

VIDEO 

See a video, created for last year’s HONK! Festival, with two circus acts and our raucous band at https://vimeo.com/463240597 . 

BOOKING INQUIRIES 

Bread and Puppet is currently seeking out venues to perform in across the country. Please contact Paul Bedard (860-918-0850, [email protected]). 

 

Bread & Puppet welcomes the public to our Annual Political Leaf Peeping, where we will celebrate the glorious fall landscape and the completion of another summer season with an afternoon of music, puppet shows and potato pancakes. The event will take place Sunday, September 26th at the Bread & Puppet farm in Glover.

The event will begin at 2pm in the Pine Forest with a Memorial sing for Elka Schumann, who passed away August 1st. The sing will be followed by side shows performed by friends and neighbours, including Banjo Bob, Merry-Go-Round  and Clare Dolan, leading into a short combined Circus and Pageant in the circus amphitheater. We’ll then parade up the hill to witness the official landscape opening ceremony, and director Peter Schumann will serve his traditional potato pancakes with fresh applesauce. “Our Annual Political Leaf Peeping at the time of general Maple leaf admiration will also treat coinciding politics and propose a new politically motivated viewing of our endangered Mother Earth”, says Peter.

The Bread & Puppet Museum—showcasing one of the largest collections of big puppets in the world—and the Museum Store—featuring a selection of new and old posters, books, and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press—will be open throughout the afternoon. An exhibit of watercolor landscapes by stalwart Shape Note Singer and friend of the theater Scott Luscombe will be on view in the Woodshed Gallery, which adjoins the museum. The Bad Bedsheet Existability Exhibit – large format paintings on old bedsheets by Peter Schumann – will be featured at Remi’s Wall, located on the walkway from the circus parking lot to the Pine Forest. The Bread & Puppet Museum will remain open daily from  9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  

Masks are required and available to visit the museum and we strongly encourage the public to wear them while moving around the grounds. This event will not be ticketed. Suggested donation $10, no one turned away for lack of funds. All events take place at the Bread & Puppet farm, 753 Heights Rd., Glover VT.

Camp Meade hosts two powerful exhibits and a musical performance featuring bawdy
songs and stand-up comedy this weekend.

On Saturday, September 25 Bob Wolk, (Banjo Bob) joins Bread and Puppet at Camp Meade in Middlesex for an afternoon and early evening double-header. Gates open at 3:00 p.m. for the event. Wolk will be performing on the green while people are perusing two exhibits, checking out a Cheat Art sale, enjoying Bread and Puppets bread and aioli along with libations and refreshments offered at Camp Meade Summer Shack, Red Hen Bakery Café and the Filling Station restaurant.

The Bread and Puppet Bad Bedsheet Philosophy & Existibility Show breathes new life into discarded old bed sheets. Troupe founder Peter Schumann uses cast off, landfill-bound textiles to create several series of king-sized painted Handouts & Mitigations – paradoxical, sometimes dream-like reflections on current global political crises and their possible transcendence.

In addition to a performance of Schumann’s Bedsheet Cantastoria – this exhibit
features his recent paintings in honor of the life of the late Elka Schumann, whose
personal and artistic partnership with her husband was a guiding force of Bread
and Puppet Theater for over 60 years. Banjo Bob’s New Migration Sideshow – American Success Story features mannequins attired in the clothing abandoned by immigrants that he finds in Arizona where he lives 1.5 miles from the border.

“When he was describing this show to me he said he goes out and walks around in
the desert and finds clothes that immigrants left behind. He starts his show,
making a joke about immigrant fashions and style, and ends up somewhere else.,”
explained Russ Bennett, one of the partners in Planetary Matters which owns Camp
Meade. “He played this as part of several Bread and Puppet events this summer and people found it very moving,” Bennett added.

Bread & Puppet’s themes about social justice are a good match for the philosophy
of Bennett, Alan Newman and Mike Pelchar, the three owners of Planetary Matters
which owns Camp Meade. “Bread and Puppets work always touches on the broader
societal and topical currents in our society…is always relevant and offers an
excellent perspective on where we are and where we might go,” Bennett explained.

He said he and his partners are striving to build community at Camp Meade, to
provide a privately-owned public space for gathering, for theater, for music, for
food and for fellowship and more. Our core values align,” Bennett said of Bread &
Puppet. “We’re about strengthening community and supporting businesses that
are creating products in ways that respect the planet and each other.”

The show runs until 6:00 p.m. Admission is by donation. Those interested in volunteering to be in the show or help out with the exhibit contact Alexis Smith: [email protected]

 

The 1,111 Copper Nail Exhibit, a 35 Year Retrospective on the Bread and Puppet Calendars, has officially extended its dates through the Fall Season.

What: Triple Location Exhibition in Hardwick, Vermont:

When: Now through the end of Fall

Where: Exhibition in 3 Fully Accessible & Covid-Safe Mask-Required locations

1. The Hardwick Inn, 4 S Main Street, Exhibit on the 1st and 2nd Floors, 8am – 6pm Mon-Sat
2. Front Seat Coffee, 101 S Main Street, B&P Calendars & Art for Sale, 7am – 3pm Mon-Fri & 8am – 2pm Sat-Sun
3. Birdsong Beer and Wine, 101 S Main St, 10am – 6pm Tue-Wed, 10am – 7pm Thur-Sat, 9am – 4pm Sun

Contact:

• Alexis Smith, Curatrix: [email protected]
• Olive Ylin, Gallerist: [email protected]
• Bread & Puppet: BreadandPuppet.org

Dedicated to Elka Schumann, who conceived, edited & printed Peter Schumann’s Calendar Art at the Bread and Puppet Press over the last 36 years ~ with thanks to Lila Winstead.

Watch for a Virtual Tour of 1111 Copper Nails currently in production at:

Link to Jerome Lipani B&P Playlist

 

 

Bread & Puppet welcomes the public to our Annual Political Leaf Peeping, where we will celebrate the glorious fall landscape and the completion of another summer season with an afternoon of music, puppet shows and potato pancakes. The event will take place Sunday, September 26th at the Bread & Puppet farm in Glover.

The event will begin at 2pm in the Pine Forest with a Memorial sing for Elka Schumann, who passed away August 1st. The sing will be followed by side shows performed by friends and neighbours, including Banjo Bob, Merry-Go-Round  and Clare Dolan, leading into a short combined Circus and Pageant in the circus amphitheater. We’ll then parade up the hill to witness the official landscape opening ceremony, and director Peter Schumann will serve his traditional potato pancakes with fresh applesauce. “Our Annual Political Leaf Peeping at the time of general Maple leaf admiration will also treat coinciding politics and propose a new politically motivated viewing of our endangered Mother Earth”, says Peter.

The Bread & Puppet Museum—showcasing one of the largest collections of big puppets in the world—and the Museum Store—featuring a selection of new and old posters, books, and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press—will be open throughout the afternoon. An exhibit of watercolor landscapes by stalwart Shape Note Singer and friend of the theater Scott Luscombe will be on view in the Woodshed Gallery, which adjoins the museum. The Bad Bedsheet Existability Exhibit – large format paintings on old bedsheets by Peter Schumann – will be featured at Remi’s Wall, located on the walkway from the circus parking lot to the Pine Forest. The Bread & Puppet Museum will remain open daily from  9 a.m. to 6 p.m.  

Masks are required and available to visit the museum and we strongly encourage the public to wear them while moving around the grounds. This event will not be ticketed. Suggested donation $10, no one turned away for lack of funds. All events take place at the Bread & Puppet farm, 753 Heights Rd., Glover VT.

Bread & Puppet goes on a short but sweet tour with Our Domestic Resurrection Circus!

Check out our touring schedule here: https://breadandpuppet.org/tour-schedule

Bread & Puppet returns to Putney August 25th at 6pm with Our Domestic Resurrection 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 and familiar Bread and Puppet 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.

 

“For a second year in a row, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus”, says director Peter Schumann. The show, says Schumann,  is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation, not only the hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily sacrificed pandemic victims but 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 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.

Get your tickets here: https://nextstagearts.org/event/bread-puppet-theater/

Saturdays and Sundays in July and August.

Sideshows start at 3pm.

Circus starts at 4pm.

Click Here for Tickets.

Bread & Puppet presents Our Domestic Resurrection 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 and familiar Bread and Puppet 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.

“For a second year in a row, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus”, says director Peter Schumann. The show, says Schumann,  is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation, not only the hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily sacrificed pandemic victims but 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 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.

Click Here for Tickets.