[Antiracism] BREAD AND PUPPET, SEPTEMBER 29! -- Please spread the word

[jo comerford]

For Immediate Release
Contact: Serena Day Himmelfarb, sdh05 at hampshire.edu / 773.513.9693


BREAD AND PUPPET DIVINE REALITY COMEDY CIRCUS
Third Annual Visit to Western Massachusetts!
29 September 2007
4:30PM

AMHERST, MA – On Saturday, September 29, 2007, Bread and Puppet Theatre will 
grace our region for the third year with its riotous, explosive World 
Insurrection Circus.  The circus is an engaging and accessible distillation 
of current, pressing social and political issues featuring the Bread and 
Puppet troupe of dancers and puppeteers accompanied by the B&P Circus Band.  
Its last two visits to western Massachusetts have drawn more than 1,000 
members of the community for an evening of giant puppets, dancing, political 
analysis, conversation and incredible bread and aioli.

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."

As with all its large, outdoor shows, Bread and Puppet welcomes/needs 
volunteers to rehearse with company the day of the show to perform that 
evening.  Musicians with instruments are especially desired/needed.  
Contacting Tara Jacobs at tamj05 at hampshire.edu if you want to participate.

Bread and Puppet will perform on the Enfield Apple Orchard Lawn.  Please use 
the main Hampshire College entrance (off Rt. 116) and look for signs.  The 
performance is accessible and free and open to all.  Donations are welcome!  
Directions: www.Hampshire.edu.

Information: Serena Day Himmelfarb, sdh05 at hampshire.edu.

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