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The Bread and Puppet Theater Presents Storm Office: A Storm Poem with Implementation Machine
Wednesday Nov 5, 7:30PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)
We're thrilled to welcome the puppeteers of Bread and Puppet Theater back to 2640! Storm Office: A Storm Poem with Implementation Machine is a puppet and mask show, performed in and around a two-curtain box stage, using recent newspaper comments on recent storms and their relationship to politics. The performance will be a dumb show, speaking with pictures instead of words. The eye's understanding of the pictures goes by its own rules and does not comply with our word-oriented logic. Bread and Puppet Dumb Shows rely on a big collection of masks and puppets, representing all archetypal traits of the ancient and contemporary worlds. In this show, masked characters are joined by an airplane, a typewriter, a deer, a big fist and a little boat on a big ocean.
The show is in 3 parts:
Part 1 takes place in the Office Stage + the Storm Stage
Part 2 is a cantastoria presented by the Bread & Puppet Storm Orchestra
Part 3 is a sailboat called: We Are All in The Same Boat, which will take the audience on a journey through the streets.
"They are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise." - Hamlet
$5 - $10 sliding scale donation requested. Hope to see you there!
supporting theatrical companies in the U.S. The theater has been enacting its
radical utopian vision in cardboard and cloth for over forty years, from the
spectacle of its larger-than-life puppets at Vietnam War protests in New York
City to the pageantry of its long-running (over 25 years) annual event, "Our
Domestic Resurrection Circus" in Glover, Vermont. The latter event regularly
attracted audiences in the tens of thousands up to the late 1990's. Author and
NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has praised "the genius of Peter Schumann
[artistic director], the prodigious puppet-God," writing "the Bread & Puppet
Theater has been so long a part of America's conscious struggle for our better
selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious."
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