Ophelia and Apocalypse Rally Shows: December 8 – 11
Run Time: 90 minutes
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM Saturday at 1:00 PM & Sunday at 3:00 PM
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In Ophelia, the mysterious Ophelia is not an attachment to Hamlet, but the center around which all other elements spin,death, ghost, king, and population, all of them puppets, cardboard giants or dwarves. Only Ophelia is real, played by director Peter Schumann’s grandson and frequent B&P collaborator, 15-year-old Ira Karp.

The Apocalypse Defiance Circus: December 14 – 18
Run Time: 60 minutes
Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday at 8:00 PM,  Saturday & Sunday at 3:00 PM

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The following week Bread & Puppet will present The Apocalypse Defiance Circus, a rollicking spectacle of protest and celebration. The 60-minute show addresses the heart of the current moment with a bright barrage of acts spanning many moods, from slapstick to the sublime, all powered by a riotous brass band. Help is provided by stilt-dancers, blue horses, paper maché clouds and tigers. Building on the tradition of the Circus as spectacle for the people, performed in the round, and somehow encompassing the ecstasy, sadness and absurdity of the world as a whole, Bread & Puppet’s circuses have become an iconic form in their own right, 51 years running!