The KO Creative Arts Department and
The Goodman Banks Artist-in-Residence Program
proudly present
Bread and Puppet Theater:The 50 Years Cabaret
Roberts Theater, Kingswood Oxford School
Friday, Oct. 25, 2013, 7:30pm(Doors open at 7pm)
Complimentary admission
Please reserve your seats at:
https://www.kingswoodoxford.org/cf_forms/view.cfm?formID=210 https://www.kingswoodoxford.org/cf_forms/view.cfm?formID=210
www.kingswoodoxford.org/puppets
www.breadandpuppet.org
Questions; please contact Katherine Nicholson at Nicholson.k@k-o.org
50th Anniversary Cabaret is a series of five short shows that span the fifty years that Bread & Puppet Theater has been in existence. King Story, an early anti war piece, was performed at the March on Washington in October 1967. President and Chair was created in 1982 and is a ridiculous puppet show which makes fun of puppet shows and election campaigns. The Foot, was also created in 1982 for the march and rally in New York City where one million people demonstrated against nuclear weapons. Courage is a show from the mid - late 90s and includes a flying lesson. A Man Says Goodbye to His Mother, originally created & performed during the Vietnam War Era and sadly, still pertinent.
Brief Background on Bread & Puppet:
Bread & Puppet Theater is based on a large farm in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom. It was founded by Peter Schumann, German born artist-dancer, in 1963, and for the next decade his giant puppets figured prominently in anti-Vietnam-War demonstrations in New York City, Washington DC and other cities in the US and abroad. Indoor performances were both simpler and more complex, ranging from quiet, intense masked shows ("Fire", "Man Says Good-Bye") with 4-6 players, to huge, lengthy spectacles ("Cry of the People").
In 1970, an invitation from Vermont's Goddard College to be theater-in-residence, facilitated a longed-for change to country life. "Our Domestic Resurrection Circus," an outdoor festival of music, art, puppetry and pageantry, began then, and ran almost every summer, growing to crowds of tens of thousands, until 1998. Since then, a smaller (but with giant puppets intact), more dispersed version continues on Sundays in July and August; the company continues touring and workshopping in the rest of the year in New England and around the globe; and Schumann continues as director and artist--and breadbaker--with a vengeance!
