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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"
align="center"><strong><b><font color="black"
face="Arial" size="6"><span
style="font-size:25.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;letter-spacing:3.0pt">BREAD
AND PUPPET THEATER</span></font></b></strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold"><br>
</span></font></b><font color="black"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:
11.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
</span></font><st1:place w:st="on"><b><i><font
face="Arial" size="5"><span
style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Attica</span></font></i></b></st1:place><b><i><font
face="Arial" size="5"><span
style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:
bold;font-style:italic"> <br>
</span></font></i></b><font face="Arial"
size="5"><span style="font-size:19.0pt;
font-family:Arial">and<b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">
<br>
Man of Flesh and Cardboard</span></i></b></span></font><b><i><font
face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic"><br>
<br>
</span></font></i></b><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="5"><span
style="font-size:19.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">along
with<br>
</span></font><b><i><font face="Arial"
size="5"><span style="font-size:19.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Man = Carrot
Circus<br>
</span></font></i></b><font face="Arial"
size="5"><span style="font-size:19.0pt;
font-family:Arial">(family-friendly)</span></font><b><i><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><br>
<br>
</span></font></i></b><st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on"><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black">Boston</span></font></b></strong></st1:placename><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> <st1:placetype
w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></span></font></b></strong></st1:place><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black"> for the Arts</span></font></b></strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-weight:bold"><br>
<strong><b><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial">Cyclorama</span></font></b></strong><br>
January 23 through</span></font></b><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:15.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">
<strong><b><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial">January
29</span></font></b></strong><b><span
style="font-weight:bold"><br>
<br>
</span></b>presented<b><span
style="font-weight:bold"> </span></b><strong><b><font
face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">in
partnership
with the</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial">Boston
Center for
the Arts </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">as
part of the</span></font></b></strong><br>
<strong><b><font face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial">Cyclorama
Residency
Series</span></font></b></strong><b><span
style="font-weight:bold"><br>
<br>
</span></b></span></font><i><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;font-style:italic">“Part
carnival,
part protest, all pageant, <br>
Bread and Puppet productions<br>
express political outrage and s<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ire
… <br>
</span></font></i><i><font face="Arial"
size="4"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;
font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">Mr.
Schumann shows th<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname> he
remains<br>
urgently invested in the politics of the
age.<font color="black"><span
style="color:black">”<br>
</span></font></span></font></i><font
color="black" face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black">[<st1:state
w:st="on">New York</st1:state> Times,
review of <br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-style:italic">Attica</span></i></st1:place>
and <i><span style="font-style:italic">Man
of Flesh and Cardboard,</span></i><br>
Dec. 12, 2011]<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black"
face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
<br>
</span></font><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:
Arial">(<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on">Boston</st1:city>, <st1:state
w:st="on">MA</st1:state> <st1:postalcode
w:st="on">02116</st1:postalcode></st1:place>) <strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Bread
and
Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er
</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
normal">presents</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black">
</span></font></b></strong><st1:place
w:st="on"><b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Attica</span></i></b></st1:place><b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"> </span></i></b>and<b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"> Man of Flesh</span></i></b><i><span
style="font-style:italic"> <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">and
Cardboard</span></b></span></i><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
normal">, along with</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><i><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-style:italic">
</span></font></i></b></strong><b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Man = Carrot Circus<strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></font></b></strong></span></i></b><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
normal">(family-friendly):
performances presented in
partnership with the </span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Boston
Center
for the Arts</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">
</span></font></b></strong>as
part of the Cyclorama Residency Series.
Performances, as well as an Art Exhibit
and Cheap Art Sale, run the week of
January 23 through January 29. All held in
the Cyclorama <st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
the Boston Center
for the Arts (BCA), 539 Tremont St., South
End, Boston <font color="black"><span
style="color:black">[conveniently loc<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ed
near the MBTA Orange Line & bus
connections]</span></font>. Wheelchair
accessible. Tickets for the performances
available for purchase [cash or check
only] in the Cyclorama one hour before
each performance. For advance tickets,
log onto <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.breadandpuppet.org/">www.breadandpuppet.org</a>
or
call 866-811-4111 (toll free). For further
inform<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion
regarding the
week’s events, call the BCA’s Bread and
Puppet
The<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er
inform<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion
line
<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
617-800-9539 or visit <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bcaonline.org/"><font
color="black"><span
style="color:black">www.bcaonline.org</span></font></a>.<br>
<br>
The award-winning <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">Bread and
Puppet The<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er</span></b>,
fe<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>uring
Artistic
Director <strong><b><font color="black"
face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Peter
Schumann</span></font></b></strong>
and his troupe of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Vermont</st1:place></st1:state>
puppeteers, returns for a sixth year to
the BCA’s Cyclorama bringing
their sign<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ure
powerful imagery,
masked characters, and giant papier-mâché
puppets. This year, their residency
includes the evening program, <b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:
italic">Attica</span></i></b><strong><b><i><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal;font-style:italic">
</span></font></i></b></strong><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
normal">and </span></font></b></strong><b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic">Man of Flesh and
Cardboard<strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></font></b></strong></span></i></b><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
normal">(</span></font></b></strong>January
26-29, recommended for ages 12
& older), the m<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>inee <b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Man = Carrot Circus<strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black"> </span></font></b></strong></span></i></b><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:
normal">(January 28-29, for </span></font></b></strong>children
of all ages),
along with <b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic">Upriser
Calisthenics</span></i></b>, a
week-long political art install<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion
(running January 23-29, with an art
opening on
January 23), and the sale of Bread and
Puppet’s legendary <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">Cheap Art</span></b>.<br>
<br>
Although all Bread and Puppet events have
a seriousness of purpose —
a few laughs are always thrown in!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:center"
align="center"><i><font color="black"
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;font-style:italic">“… </span></font></i><i><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial;font-style:
italic">surprisingly warm and lively, <br>
despite the grim subject m<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ter
… <br>
It’s hard not to be charmed by <br>
[Schumann’s] twinned passions <br>
for puppetry and lefty politics, <br>
still vibrant after all these years</span></font></i><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">.<i><font
color="black"><span
style="color:black;font-style:italic">”<br>
</span></font></i><font color="black"><span
style="color:black">[Village Voice,
review of <br>
<st1:place w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-style:italic">Attica</span></i></st1:place>
and <i><span
style="font-style:italic">Man of
Flesh and Cardboard,</span></i><br>
Dec. 7, 2011]<o:p></o:p></span></font></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black"
face="Arial" size="4"><span
style="font-size:
13.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black"><br>
</span></font><u><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial">Detailed listings
inform<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion</span></font></u><font
face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Arial">:<br>
<br>
<u>Evening Performances</u> [recommended
for ages 12 & older]:<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Bread
and Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er:
<st1:place w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-style:italic">Attica</span></i></st1:place><i><span
style="font-style:italic"> </span></i></span></b>and<b><i><span
style="font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"> Man of Flesh and Cardboard<br>
</span></i></b><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:
Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">Jan. 26</span></font></b></strong>-Jan.
29,
Thurs.-Sun., 7:00 pm<br>
$12 general admission [$10 students,
seniors, & groups of 10 or more]<br>
<u>Description</u>:<br>
<span class="apple-style-span">The
evening's prologue <i><span
style="font-style:
italic">Attica</span></i> marks the
40th anniversary of the prison riots <st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname> the
Attica Correctional Facility in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New
York</st1:placename> <st1:placetype
w:st="on">St<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>e</st1:placetype></st1:place>.
<i><span style="font-style:italic">Attica
</span></i>was cre<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ed in
1971 in direct response to the prison
uprising, and was first performed in
Bread and Puppet's <st1:place w:st="on">Coney
Island</st1:place> the<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er. The
second part of the program is <i><span
style="font-style:italic">Man of
Flesh
and Cardboard</span></i>, the story
of PFC Bradley Manning who is charged
with
supplying restricted m<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>erial to
WikiLeaks. Bread and Puppet confronts
the irony of a soldier who faces
conviction of a war crime for bringing
war crimes to the light of day. This
piece will be performed by director
Peter Schumann and the Bread and Puppet
resident company, along with a large
number of local volunteer puppeteers and
musicians. After each performance, the
audience is invited to join an informal
talk-back with the artists, to e<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
the company's home-made sourdough rye
bread spread with garlic-laden aioli, to
view the art exhibit, and to peruse the
Cheap Art, posters and banners for
sale.<font color="navy"><span
style="color:navy"><br>
</span></font></span><font
color="black"><span style="color:black">Evening
performance
segments taken by DeeDee Halleck: <br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQ71VDwU6w&feature=youtu.be">www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHQ71VDwU6w&feature=youtu.be</a>
(<st1:place w:st="on"><i><span
style="font-style:italic">Attica</span></i></st1:place>),
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDQ8u7tW1DY&feature=youtu.be">www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDQ8u7tW1DY&feature=youtu.be</a>
(</span></font><i><span
style="font-style:italic">Man of Flesh
and Cardboard</span></i><font
color="black"><span style="color:black">).</span></font></span></font><font
size="2"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Arial" size="2"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;
font-family:Arial"><br>
<u>Family-Friendly M<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>inees</u>:<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Bread
and Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er:
<i><span style="font-style:italic">Man
= Carrot Circus</span></i></span></b><i><span
style="font-style:italic"><br>
</span></i>Jan. 28 & Jan. 29, S<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>.
& Sun., 2:00 pm<br>
$12 general admission [$6 students,
seniors, and pre-school children (2 &
under free)]<br>
<u>Description</u>: <br>
The family-friendly <i><span
style="font-style:italic">Man = Carrot
Circus </span></i>is
based on the revel<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion th<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname> an upright
man rooted in dirt was cre<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ed in the
image of the upright carrot rooted in
dirt. The production is recommended for
audiences ages 1 to 101. Performed by
Peter
Schumann and the Bread & Puppet
Company, along with a large number of
local
volunteer puppeteers and musicians. Take
note th<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
some of the circus acts are politically
puzzling to adults, but
accompanying kids can usually explain
them. After each performance, the
audience is welcome to examine all the
masks and puppets and to peruse the art
exhibit and Cheap Art, which will be for
sale.<font color="navy"><span
style="color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font color="black"><span
style="color:black">Circus performance
segment taken by DeeDee Halleck: <br>
</span></font><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ISHcfeLVA&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1">www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ISHcfeLVA&feature=youtu.be&noredirect=1</a>
(opening sequence).]<br>
<br>
<u>Visual Art Exhibit</u>:<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Bread
and Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er:
<i><span style="font-style:italic">Upriser
Calisthenics</span></i></span></b><i><span
style="font-style:italic"> </span></i>visual
art install<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion
cre<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ed
by <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Peter
Schumann</span></b><br>
Jan. 23-Jan. 29, Mon.-Sun.<br>
Free and open to all.<br>
<u>Description</u>: Bread and Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er
Artistic Director Peter Schumann’s most
recent visual art explor<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion, a
collection of large posters with offbe<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname> slogans
which speak to m<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ters
th<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
concern us all.<br>
<u>Exhibit details</u>:<br>
—Mon., Jan. 23, 6:00-9:00 pm: opening
reception, with refreshments, an
art talk given by Schumann, short skits
performed by the touring company, and
live music performed by the touring
company and members of the <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">Second Line
Social Aid & Pleasure Society
Brass
Band</span></b>. <br>
—Tues.-Fri., Jan. 24-27: regular Cyclorama
hours: 9:00 am-5:00 pm
[Thursday & Friday hours extended up
to and after the evening performance].<br>
—S<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>.
& Sun., Jan. 28
& 29: one hour before and after each m<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>inee
and evening performance.<br>
<br>
For this residency <st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname> the
Cyclorama,
the Bread and Puppet touring company
includes Schumann, along with <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">Maura Gahan</span></b>,
<b><span style="font-weight:
bold">Greg Corbino</span></b>, <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">K<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>herine
Nook</span></b>, <b><span
style="font-weight:
bold">Susie Perkins</span></b>, among
others. Both the evening and m<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>inee
performances will be performed by the
company
and a large number of local volunteers and
musicians, including the popular
Somerville-based <strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black">Second
Line Social Aid & Pleasure
Society Brass Band</span></font></b></strong><strong><b><font
color="black" face="Arial"><span
style="font-family:Arial;color:black;font-weight:normal">
(<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.slsaps.org/"><font
color="black"><span
style="color:black">www.slsaps.org</span></font></a>),
which
serves as the house band for Bread
& Puppet’s <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Boston</st1:city></st1:place>
performances and is also the host
band
for the annual HONK! Festival (<a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.honkfest.org/">www.honkfest.org</a>)
held in <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Davis Square</st1:address></st1:street>.</span></font></b></strong><br>
<br>
All the visuals are cre<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ed by
Schumann, including sculpting and painting
of all the major masks and puppets,
with input from the company. After each
evening performance there will be an
opportunity to savor Schumann's famous
sourdough rye bread, smeared with garlic
aioli; and there will also be many
opportunities during the week to purchase
the the<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er's
legendary "cheap
art."<br>
<br>
Bread and Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er is an
intern<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ionally
recognized company
th<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
champions a visually rich,
street-the<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er
brand of performance
art th<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
is filled with music, dance
and slapstick. Its performances are
political and spectacular, with huge
puppets made of paper maché and cardboard,
a brass band for accompaniment, and
anti-elitist dance. Most are morality
plays — about how people act toward
each other — whose prototype is
"Everyman". There are puppets
of all kinds and sizes, masks, paintings,
buildings and landscapes th<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname> seemingly
bre<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>he
with
Schumann's distinctive visual style of
dance, expressionism, dark humor
and low-culture simplicity.<br>
<br>
<u>A SHORT HISTORY OF BREAD AND PUPPET
THEATER<br>
<br>
</u><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Bread
and Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er</span></b>
is one of the oldest, nonprofit,
self-supporting the<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>rical
companies
in this country. It was founded in 1963 by
Peter Schumann on <st1:city w:st="on">New
York City</st1:city>'s <st1:place
w:st="on">Lower East Side</st1:place>.
Besides rod-puppet and hand-puppet shows
for children, the concerns of the
first productions were rents, r<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>s,
police and other problems of th<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
neighborhood. More complex the<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er
pieces, in which sculpture, music, dance
and language were equal partners,
followed. The puppets grew bigger and
bigger. Annual present<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ions for
Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and
Memorial Day often included children and
adults from the community as
participants. Many performances were done
in the street.<br>
<br>
During the Vietnam War, Bread and Puppet
staged block-long processions and
pageants involving hundreds of people. The
the<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er
was
briefly loc<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ed
in Coney Island,
in a building th<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
formerly housed <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city
w:st="on">Boston</st1:city></st1:place>'s
hotel and
restaurant. The insider's history, "<st1:place
w:st="on">Coney Island</st1:place>:
Lost and Found" by Charles Denson rel<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>es,
"The the<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er
became a hangout
for curious young people who stopped in to
see the avant-garde productions. A
children's workshop on bread and puppet
making was held on weekends... Before
each weekend performance, the puppeteers
used to 'bally' on the streets of <st1:place
w:st="on">Coney Island</st1:place>.
Oddly dressed performers be<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ing drums
marched down <st1:street w:st="on"><st1:address
w:st="on">Surf Avenue</st1:address></st1:street>
with giant dancing
marionettes, <st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>tracting
a crowd th<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
followed them to the the<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er.
Bally was a traditional Coney art form th<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
hadn't been used since the days of the
sideshows in the 1950's, and no one knew
wh<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
to make of it."<br>
<br>
In 1970 Bread & Puppet moved to <st1:state
w:st="on">Vermont</st1:state> as
the<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er-in-residence
<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename
w:st="on">Goddard</st1:placename> <st1:placetype
w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
combining
puppetry with gardening and bread baking
in a serious way, learning to live in
the countryside and letting itself be
influenced by the experience. In 1974 the
The<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er
moved to a farm in Glover in
the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. The
140-year-old hay barn was transformed
into a museum for veteran puppets. "Our
Domestic Resurrection
Circus," a two-day outdoor festival of
puppetry shows, was presented
annually through 1998.<br>
<br>
Through invit<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ions
by Grace Paley,
Bread and Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er became a
frequent <st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>traction
<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
anti-Vietnam War events in the '60s and
'70s. By
the '80s, the puppets had become emblem<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ic
of activist pacifism and a sine qua non of
American political the<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er, as
exemplified by the massive, ascending
figures th<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>
are burned into the
memory of anyone who marched with or saw
the haunting, massive June 12, 1982
Disarmament Parade in New York City.<br>
<br>
<font color="black"><span
style="color:black">For more inform<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion on
the Bread and Puppet The<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>er, log
onto <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.breadandpuppet.org/"><font
color="black"><span style="color:
black">www.breadandpuppet.org</span></font></a>.<br>
<br>
<u>ABOUT THE <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename
w:st="on">BOSTON</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">CENTER</st1:placetype></st1:place>
FOR THE ARTS<br>
<br>
</u></span></font>The <b><span
style="font-weight:bold">Boston Center
for the
Arts</span></b> is a not-for-profit
performing and visual arts campus th<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname> supports
working artists to cre<st1:personname
w:st="on">at</st1:personname>e, perform
and exhibit new works, develops new
audiences, and connects the arts to
community. Visit <a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.bcaonline.org/">www.bcaonline.org</a>
for more inform<st1:personname w:st="on">at</st1:personname>ion.<font
color="black"><span style="color:black"><br>
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<st1:address w:st="on"><st1:street
w:st="on">PO Box 290703</st1:street>,
<st1:city w:st="on">Charlestown</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">MA</st1:state> <st1:postalcode
w:st="on">02129</st1:postalcode></st1:address><br>
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