Saturday, September 7, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM - in person at Fort Allen Park, 49 Eastern Promenade, Portland, ME
Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus - The Bread & Puppet Theater
Presented by Mayo Street Arts - Thank you to Ian, Amy, and everyone at Mayo Street Arts for having us
The circus is coming! The circus is coming! The Bread & Puppet Theater will bring its iconic circus to cities and towns in the US Northeast and Midwest August 31-October 12, 2024. The company presents The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, 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.
Director Peter Schumann describes the show as featuring, “tigers teaching the congress of cowards how to jump over billionaires and acquire the courage to not pay for the atrocities of the latest genocide; the proverbial sheep of The system refusing to be sheep and committing revolution against the system; and the blue horses of the peace and harmony terrorists of the Northeast Kingdom breaking through the wall of threatening clouds that hide the truth from the population and then galloping over the ruins of the truth industry.”
After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.
$10-$25 suggested donation (no ticket required). No one turned away for lack of funds. We mean it. At most shows, we are able to accommodate anyone who lack funds. Please email breadandpuppetreservations@gmail.com for assistance. See you at the show!
Source: Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus — MAINE VOICES FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS (mvprights.org)