Friday August 26th at 6:30pm
University of Majd outside the Bread & Puppet Dirt Floor Cathedral.
University of Majd tells the tale of Majd Ziadeh, a young Palestinian man, was detained at age 19 with all the other men in his building, tortured, sentenced to 30 years in an Israeli military prison in 2002. Thanks to the work of lawyers and activists, his sentence was commuted and he was released earlier this year. University highlights the conditions that allowed for Majd’s unjust imprisonment, and celebrates his release.
The play draws its title from the fact that many Palestinians refer to time spent in Israeli prisons, with dark irony, as “University,” a grim rite of passage for a significant percentage of young Palestinians.
University of Majd will play Friday evenings this August at 6:30 p.m. outside The Paper Maché Cathedral at Bread & Puppet Theater.
You can purchase tickets in our Ticketing tab or put money in the hat! $10-$25 suggested donation, no one turned away for lack of funds.
Sunday August 28th at 3pm
Saturday September 3rd at 3pm
The Apocalypse Defiance Circus in the Bread & Puppet Circus Field.
Bread & Puppet presents Our Domestic Resurrection Circus and Pageant, 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.
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 in the Pageant Field. **This year’s Pageant is a collaboration with Steve Paxton**
Guest Performances on 8/28 at 5:30pm by former Poet Laureate of Belfast, Maine Toussaint St. Negritude
You can purchase tickets in our Ticketing tab or put money in the hat! $10-$25 suggested donation, no one turned away for 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!
