Bread & Puppet Theater

The Upside Down World Circus Wednesday, December 2 @ 8pm

Thursday, December 3 @ 8pm

Friday, December 4 @ 8pm

Saturday, December 5 @ 3pm & 8pm

Sunday, December 6 @ 3pm

Get ready for a paper mache spectacle featuring puppets big and small, acts serious and silly, and performances slapstick and sublime. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts, and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful circus of protest and celebration. In this year’s circus, director Peter Schumann asks “Is it or is it not? Am I asleep or am I awake? Am I a cockroach or am I a me?” He further urges us Possibilitarians to “demonstrate humanity’s upside-down situation in the face of the government’s depraved falsehoods. Luxury silence and despair must be replaced by revolt orchestras that radically oppose the radically wrong system. It is time to unforget the revolution-in-progress!” Woyzeck Thursday, December 10 @ 8pm

Friday, December 11 @ 8pm

Saturday, December 12 @ 3pm & 8pm

Sunday, December 13 @ 3pm

Nearly 200 years after Georg Büchner wrote his searing social critique and 50 years after Peter Schumann adapted it for a tour of Germany, Bread & Puppet presents an urgent revival of Woyzeck . "When the whole world seems to be going up in flames I've heard a terrible voice talking to me" cries Woyzeck. The script remains "unfortunately more than relevant" notes Schumann, who says of Büchner, "I don’t know how he does it, but what he does is totally real, it’s the language of the proletariat, of poverty, of deprivation. Obligatory viewing for all citizens and migrants to this country.” After each 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.