We will have an opening reception for Jesse Azarian’s exhibit in our Woodshed Gallery on Sunday, July 7th after our Circus & Pageant.
Author: Bread & Puppet Theater
Circus & Pageant every Sunday through August!
Our huge outdoor Circus & Pageant festivals will begin on July 7th and run through August 25th in this 2019 summer.
CHECK OUT OUR SPRING TOUR SCHEDULE
SPRING NORTHEAST TOUR
Friday, May 10th, 7 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
Beneficent Congregational Church
300 Weybosset St, Providence, RI
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue website: www.beneficentchurch.org/
Saturday, May 11th, 7 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
The Newmarket Millspace hosted by Wrong Brain
55 Main St. Newmarket, NH
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue website: https://millspace.org/
Sunday, May 12th, TWO SHOWS. 3 p.m. & 6 p.m.
Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis
Mayo St. Arts
10 Mayo St. Portland, ME
Tickets: $15 General Admission/$20 front rows
Venue website: mayostreetarts.org/
Giant Woodcut Banner Exhibit in North Hero, VT, Exhibit Closing Event June 9th
Giant Woodcut Banner Exhibit at GreenTARA Gallery
A variety of Peter Schumann’s most recent giant woodcut banners and paintings will be available for viewing at GreenTARA Gallery closes Sunday, June 9th, with a day of celebratory events.
Events begin at 12:30 with the Film Screenings and Introduction by Robin Lloyd. To quote Robin: “both are extraordinary, portraying a kind of rural primitive drama seen no where else in the world.” www.greenvalleymedia.org/breadandpuppet.
Two Pageants: Gates of Hell (40min) & Men With Teeth (20min) Gates of Hell is a magnificent virtuoso performance by the Bread and Puppet Theater troupe on the grassy amphitheater and hills of their farm in Glover, Vermont. Involving several hundred performers, this last Pageant (1998) portrays the corrupting force of capitalism on humanity, told through fragments of a poem by Bertolt Brecht, which are assembled and crucified on a burning pyre.
“This pageant is about the citizenry who get attacked and sacrificed and resurrected. Out of this population comes the butcher who is professional and obedient, himself a sheep or calf, and also the slaughterer of the calf – the real Nazi and also the proper citizen doing what he is told.” Peter Schumann, Director of Bread and Puppet.
These films were produced by Robin Lloyd. Robin has been a filmmaker, director of the video production company Green Valley Media, and active in the peace and justice movement in Burlington, VT. Her videos of the Bread and Puppet pageants, with Peter Schumann commentary, are unique documentaries of this creative and extraordinary theater. Audience Level: Elementary through Adult.
Film Viewings will be followed by Bluebird Fairycard Readings ($5) by Emily Anderson; sales of Bread + Puppet Art, Woodcut Banners, and Cheap Art; Bread & Aioli; Garbage Man; as well as a short performance by Emily Anderson www.bluebirdfairies.com. Brian Merrill will be playing his carved flutes and Gallery will have various Coffee/Tea drinks. All activities will be ongoing or repeating until gallery closing time at 4pm. For more info: Diane Gayer, [email protected] or www.greentaraspace.org.
Directions to GreenTARA Gallery:
3275 US Rt. 2, North Hero, VT 05474
Contact: 802-355-2150, [email protected]
Venue website: www.greentaraspace.org
Gallery Hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10 – 4 PM
About the Exhibit: Post Apocalyptic Dawn of Possibilitarians
The giant woodcut banner exhibition includes the series Diagonal Life: Theory and Practice; Life Little Life, new work inspired by the incarceration of children at the US /Mexico border; and Post-Apocalypse for a 3/4 Empire, inspired by Young Durer’s 1495 furious apocalypse woodcuts.
“The Dawn is the new republic that brings new light into a crumbling republic of waste and warfare. It is the celebration of the possible light that must confront the current day darkness. The Possibilitarians are the dwarfs of the giantism system, the misfits in the billionaire universe, the-underneath-the-above kids who stand up against the end-of-the-world politics. Possibilitarians of the world unite!”
44th Annual Open House
Sunday, June 2nd , 2-5 p.m. Bread and Puppet Museum Celebrates Opening of 44th Season
The Bread & Puppet Museum celebrates the beginning of its forty-fourth season with a Museum Open House. Visitors will be treated to live music, large and small puppetshows and sourdough rye bread with aioli. After guest performers Bread and Puppet will present Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis, a show that investigates “the leaning power of hurt verticals”.
Bread and Puppet’s Diagonal Life presents the diagonal as a potent and promising opposition to the dominating verticality of our culture. Puppeteers long ago realized that the most aesthetically radical movements for puppets are diagonals, because these movements cannot be sustained by human actors or dancers for more than a moment. Diagonal Life brings all the bewildering, beguiling, and downright funny possibilities and implications of diagonality to life with song, dance, magic, mechanism, and stunning cardboard and paper maché puppets painted in Peter Schumann’s exuberant, slapdash expressionist style.
The Bread and Puppet Museum is located at the Bread and Puppet Farm on 753 Heights Rd./Rt. 122 in Glover, Vermont.
B&P Cross-Continental Tour Fall 2018
Big Big Tour 2018: 3.5 months on the road with The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus and The Basic Byebye Show
A rotating, star-studded, multi-generational B&P touring company of 18-30 will tour around the perimeter of the US (including a few stops in southern Canada) from Sept. 7th to Dec. 16th with The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus and The Basic Byebye Show. Don’t miss us when we come to your town! Come see a show and tell your far-flung friends!
Check out the evolving schedule on the tour schedule page. More dates will be going up continuously. Some openings remain: email Josh at jrkrugman(at)gmail(dot)com with inquiries.
Check Out Upcoming Dates For Our Cross-Country Tour!
Tuesday, December 4th, 7:30 p.m.
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Radford University
801 E Main St. Radford, VA
Free admission
Venue website: https://www.radford.edu/content/cvpa/home/performance-season/tickets.html/
*please note, on Dec 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th & Dec 9th we have 2 different touring shows performing in 2 different cities. Read the schedule carefully!
Wednesday, December 5th, 7:30 p.m. (Doors at 7 p.m.) *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Randolph Community Center
1415 Grayland Ave, Richmond, VA
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Wednesday, December 5th, 8 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Or Else Opera – Eisler/Brecht
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Thursday, December 6th, 7 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Williamsburg Unitarian Universalist Church
3051 Ironbound Rd, Williamsburg, VA
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue website: https://wuu.org/
Thursday, December 6th, 8 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Or Else Opera – Eisler/Brecht
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Friday, December 7th, Doors at 6:30 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
7 p.m. pre-show. Rumput: Indonesian traditional string music and shadow puppetry
8 p.m. Bread and Puppet’s The Basic Byebye Show
High Point Gallery
3300 West Broad Street, Richmond, VA
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Friday, December 7th, 8 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Or Else Opera – Eisler/Brecht
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Saturday, December 8th, 7 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Washington Waldorf School
4800 Sangamore Road, Bethesda, MD
Admission by donation: $10-$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Saturday, December 8th, 3 p. m & 8 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Or Else Opera – Eisler/Brecht
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Sunday, December 9th, 7 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
2640
2640 St. Paul St. Baltimore, MD
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue website: https://www.2640space.org/
Sunday, December 9th, 3 p.m. *Note: 2 shows in different cities on this day!
The Or Else Opera – Eisler/Brecht
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Tuesday, December 11th, 7 p.m.
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Threefold Auditorium at Threefold Educational Center
260 Hungry Hollow Rd. Chestnut Ridge, NY
Admission by donation, $10−$25 suggested, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Venue website: http://www.threefold.org/index.aspx
Thursday, December 13th, 8 p.m.
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Friday, December 14th, 8 p.m.
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Saturday, December 15th, 3p.m. & 8 p.m.
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Sunday, December 16th, 3p.m.
The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus
Theatre For the New City
155 1st Ave. Manhattan, NYC, NY
Tickets: $18 general, $12 students, seniors, and kids. Get tickets here.
Venue website: https://theaterforthenewcity.net/
Look out for more dates soon!
Also, contact Josh Krugman — jrkrugman(at)gmail(dot)com — with booking inquiries. There are still some open dates!
Dec 5th-Dec 16th – Bread and Puppet Performs in New York City!
For the 46th year, Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theater will return to Theater for the New City on December 5-16 with two new works.
From Dec 5th to 9th, the company will present The Or Else Opera -Eisler/Brecht, a show developed at the end of last summer in The Paper Mache Cathedral in collaboration with the New York based Pi Ensemble. Schumann describes it as: “A paper mache puppet opera, punctuated by melting ice drops under a starry sky made of garlic. The composer Hanns Eisler, a major Brecht collaborator, fled the Nazis, joined the Berliner Ensemble and now enters the 21st century’s humanity, it’s giant fears and overcrowded spirit, at the moment of re-occurring fascism.”
From Dec 13th to 16th, the company will present The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus. This will be the last stop on a 3 month tour of this show which traveled around the perimeter of the US with a rotating, star-studded, multi-generational B&P touring company. The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus is a celebration of 6000 years of human revolution against human management, featuring celastic tigers and celestial grasshoppers, and powered as always by the hot sounds of the Bread and Puppet Circus Band.
For more information including times and how to reserve tickets, CLICK HERE
*Both shows rely on a large chorus of volunteers. If you are interested, please email Joe Therrien, NYC volunteer coordinator, at [email protected]
Bread & Puppet in Paris through September 30th
Bread & Puppet Tours Austria & France Sept 12-30
Bread & Puppet returns to Europe with stops in Austria and France! Please email [email protected] with questions about the tour.
Austria Schedule:
September 12 – 20: Workshop and Parade, commissioned and produced by steirischer herbstfestival, Graz, Austria
The Underneath the Above Parade #1 September 20th at 5pm. Meeting point: Europaplatz
Participants Welcome!
Public Workshop September 12 through September 19, daily 13:00–16:00, 18:30–21:00, Helmut List Halle
Questions and registration: [email protected]
The workshop is for free. It is not necessary to attend all sessions to participate.
France Schedule:
Sunday September 23rd: Insurrection Mass in Strasbourg, France. Private house show! For address please write to [email protected] . 7:30pm
Tuesday September 25th: Insurrection Mass show at Les Voutes, 19 rue des frigos 75013 Paris, 8:30pm (doors 7:00)
Thursday September 27th: Street Shows at Chaudron Lavoir, 6 square Amicie Lebaudy 75020, Paris, 6pm
Friday September 28th: Street Shows at Place Sorbier at 6pm and Place Martin Nadaud at 7pm, 75020, Paris, France Portes Ouverts 2018
Saturday September 29th Street Shows at Place Sorbier at 1:30pm and Place Martin Nadaud at 2:30pm, 75020, Paris, France Portes Ouverts 2018
AND
Short Set at Le Chapiteau de la Fontaine aux images before AGAMA, Stade Roger Caltot, av de Sévigné 93390, Clichy-sous-bois at 8pm
Sunday September 30 Street Shows at Place Sorbier at 4pm and Place Martin Nadaud at 5pm,75020, Paris, France Portes Ouverts 2018
ADDITIONALLY,
Bread and Puppet Cheap Art for sale at Théâtre des ateliers du Chaudron, 31 passage de Ménilmontant 75011 Paris. September 28th – 30th from 2pm to 6pm
B&P Cross-Continental Tour Fall 2018
Big Big Tour 2018: 3.5 months on the road with The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus and The Basic Byebye Show
A rotating, star-studded, multi-generational B&P touring company of 18-30 will tour around the perimeter of the US (including a few stops in southern Canada) from Sept. 7th to Dec. 16th with The Grasshopper Rebellion Circus and The Basic Byebye Show. Don’t miss us when we come to your town! Come see a show and tell your far-flung friends!
Check out the evolving schedule on the tour schedule page. More dates will be going up continuously. Some openings remain: email Josh at jrkrugman(at)gmail(dot)com with inquiries.
