Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse : Event : Bread and Puppet presents the Divine Reality Comedy Circus

Bread and Puppet presents the Divine Reality Comedy Circus

Sunday Apr 20, 6PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)

For decades Bread and Puppet has been at the forefront of political puppetry, so we're exceptionally super-excited to welcome the troupe to 2640 for an early evening, fun-for-all-ages performance of their Divine Reality Comedy Circus. And like all good Bread and Puppet performances, they're depending on you to help them out - they'll need a dozen or two volunteers to help put on the show. Here's what you can expect:

Volunteers will probably wind up being blue horses (an upright job with lots of prancing), turkeys (bending over but stupid and fun), sheep (also bending over and fun), airplanes (cardboard masks on head and a Russian dance), holding big flat cardboard puppets of bureaucrats, being computers (cardboard face masks), singing, dancing round in rooster masks, and heaven only knows what else.

If this sounds like your bag, drop us a line at info@redemmas.org and we'll let you know the details. If you'd rather just watch the show, admission is only $5-$10 (sliding scale).

The Bread & Puppet Theater is one of the oldest non-profit, self-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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800 St. Paul St. * Baltimore, MD 21202 * (410) 230-0450 * info@redemmas.org

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