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Bread & Puppet Theater: The Heart of the Matter Circus

September 8, 2023, 4:00 pm - 9:00 pm

- $10 – $25
Friday, September 8 @ 4pm & 8pm
$10-$25 suggested donation (no one turned away for lack of funds!)

The circus is coming! The circus is coming! Bread & Puppet returns to Brooklyn’s Old Stone House on Friday, September 8, 2023 with The Heart of the Matter Circus. This brand new show build on 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.

The show, says Schumann,  is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation, not only the hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily sacrificed pandemic victims but our culture’s unwillingness to recognize Mother Earth’s revolt against our civilization. Since we earthlings do not live up to our earthling obligations, we need resurrection circuses to yell against our own stupidity.”

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.

Show Length: Approximately 1 hour. No tickets necessary, but bring cash for the hat. $10-$25 suggested donation with no one turned away for lack of funds.

See you at the circus!

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Date:
September 8, 2023
Time:
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
$10 – $25
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Organizer

Old Stone House & Washington Park
Phone
718-768-3195
Email
info@theoldstonehouse.org
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Venue

Old Stone House & Washington Park
336 Third Street
Brooklyn , NY 11215 United States
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Details

Date:
September 8, 2023
Time:
4:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Cost:
$10 – $25
Event Categories:
, ,
Event Tags:
, , , , , , , , ,

Organizer

Old Stone House & Washington Park
Phone
718-768-3195
Email
info@theoldstonehouse.org
View Organizer Website

Venue

Old Stone House & Washington Park
336 Third Street
Brooklyn , NY 11215 United States
+ Google Map