Bread and Puppet in Boston January Bread and Puppet Theater is a performing and visual arts troupe based in Vermont. They are known for their political satire and untraditional puppetry and performances. The company has been around since the 1960s and continues to bring audiences to both cheer and scratch their heads with their most unusual performances. This week, Bread and Puppet visits Boston with its “cheap art and political theater.”
The company just opened the art exhibit “NOLANGUAGE” by artistic director Peter Schumann in Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts. The exhibit puts on display some of Schumann’s unique political and religious satire as well as some seemingly nonsensical displays which he calls “No Language” for its use of non-complete thoughts and sentences. At the opening of the exhibit, Schumann introduced his art with a hilarious song he wrote for the fiddle. The performance gave a great deal of prospective to the art on display. The NOLANGUAGE exhibit opened January 24 and will remain open to the public until Sunday, January 30. Additionally, Bread and Puppet Theater will be performing two of its shows in the same space. The first is The Return of Ulysses, which is an adaptation of the Claudio Monteverdi opera. The show will run at 7pm from January 27-30 at Cyclorama. After each show there will be a talk-back with the performers and sourdough rye bread will be served. The show is recomended for ages 12 and above. Tickets are $12 general admission and $10 for students and seniors. The second production is Decapitalization Circus, which is a family-friendly deconstruction of politics. Matinee performances will run Saturday and Sunday this weekend (Jan. 29 and 30) at 4pm also at Cyclorama. Tickets are $10 general admission and $5 for students, seniors, and children 2 and under. To purchase tickets for either of the performances, you can do so by visiting the Bread and Puppet website, calling 866-811-4111 (toll free), or purchasing at the door starting an hour before performance time. All performances take place at Cyclorama, 539 Tremont St. in the South End. Little did I know before attending the opening of NOLANGUAGE that Bread and Puppet shows are often performed by the company as well as a large number of local volunteers. When I introduced myself as the Boston Circus Arts Examiner, I was immediately asked if I would be interested in joining one of the two shows! Who knows, maybe you will see me on stage this weekend in the Decapitalization Circus! If you enjoyed this article, chances are you’ll enjoy others by this author. Why not click that handy “Subscribe” button on the top of the page? Then you will receive all the great new content, hassle free, right to your inbox! -- http://www.examiner.com/circus-arts-in-boston/bread-and-puppet-boston-january Via InstaFetch -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sixties-L" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sixties-l?hl=en.
