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.

 

Tuesday, December 4^th, 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 5^th, 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 5^th, 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 6^th, 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 6^th, 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 7^th, 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 7^th, 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 8^th, 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 8^th, 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 9^th, 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 9^th, 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 11^th, 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 13^th, 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 14^th, 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 15^th, 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 16^th, 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!

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 Tours Austria & France Sept 12-30

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.

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 herbst festival, 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

https://www.ateliersduchaudron.net/

SILENT AUCTION AT BREAD&PUPPET
August 15 7:30pm- August 19 7pm
at Bread&Puppet’s Woodshed Gallery
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Bread and Puppet is raising money towards pressing repairs on its buildings. We will be presenting some very exciting posters, prints, paintings and other art objects from puppeteers from all over the world.
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–High quality cheap art!
–Low quality cheap art!
–Rare, archival Bread and Puppet paraphernalia!
–Mystery boxes!

THE PLAINFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER PROUDLY PRESENTS:

“Bread&Puppet: an Emergent Mosaic” in 2 Parts.

 

Part 1: The Emergent Mosaic Panel: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 at 7 p.m.
The 7th annual Emergent Mosaic Panel, an ongoing oral history project seeking to capture bits of Bread &Puppet history in the participants’ own words. This year’s focus is: Puppet Kids. Kids have been part of Bread &Puppet shows almost from the beginning of its work. Kids of all ages have been puppeteers, musicians, and dancers. The panel will include puppet kids from the 1970s on through the 2010s.
Plainfield Community Center, above the Coop, 153 Main Street, Plainfield, VT.

 

Part 2: The Emergent Mosaic Exhibit, opening on July 30th, running until August 26th.
The 7th annual Emergent Mosaic Exhibit, which this year features photographs by photographer and former Bread&Puppet company member Mark Dannenhauer. The exhibit will feature photographs of Bread&Puppet’s recent work and archival photos featuring puppet kids.

 

Plainfield Community Center, above the Coop, 153 Main Street, Plainfield, VT open during regular Coop hours.
For more information, please contact:
Mark Dannenhauer
[email protected]
617-939-1925, cell and voicemail

BURT PORTER SINGS AT BREAD AND PUPPET

Poets Burt Porter and Lindsay Knowlton will present a poetry reading on Sunday, August 5th at 5:45 after our Circus&Pageant, in the Paper Maché Cathedral behind the B&P Museum.

Burt taught English at Lyndon Institute for many years and was head of the English Department there. His poems are in traditional rhythm-and-rhyming style, include many sonnets, and cover a broad range of subjects from country living skills and hardships to classical mythology, from Northeast Kingdom nature and seasons to Shakespeare’s legacy.
Burt has published six books of poetry, the latest in 2014 is “Rhymes from the North Country”. An accomplished musician on guitar, fiddle and banjo, Burt set many of his poems and the poetry of others to music, performing at fairs and festivals all over Vermont. For over forty years he has played at Bread&Puppet’s Museum Open House, and given poetry readings solo and with poets Galway Kinnell and Lindsay Knowlton.