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Bread and Puppet Theaters The Correct Moment Right On Target For November...



Bread and Puppet Theater presents The National Circus and Passion of the Correct Moment. Events run from November 13-20. Performances and Symposium (details below) held at the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre, 820 Massachusetts Avenue, Central Square, Cambridge. Wheelchair accessible. For advance tickets, log onto www.TheatreMania.com or call 866-811-4111 (toll free). For information regarding event specifics, call the Cambridge Family YMCA Theatre (www.cambymca.org/theatre_events.html), 617-661-9622 x707.



Bread and Puppet Theater is targeting Cambridge at the perfectly correct moment. The moment is this moment and exists only now and then no more. But in order for this moment to be the correct moment, the history that shapes this moment has to be summoned. The Architects of the Correct Moment usher in the correct circus acts and national events that make this moment what it is. The Naked Population and the Executive Branch of the Correct Moment are the chief performers of the production.





Featuring Bread and Puppet Theater s signature

masked characters and giant papier-mâché puppets,

The Correct Moment details are as follows:



Evening Shows (adult oriented):

THE NATIONAL CIRCUS AND PASSION OF THE CORRECT MOMENT

Nov. 16-20, Wed.-Sun., 8 pm; an open rehearsal to be held on Tues., Nov. 15, 8 pm

$12 general admission [students, seniors, & groups of 10 or more $10] (open rehearsal on Nov. 15, suggested donation $5)



Family-Friendly Matinees:

THE CIRCUS OF THE CORRECT MOMENT

Nov. 19-20, Sat.-Sun., 3 pm

$10 / $5 students and seniors / children 2 and under free



Political Art Symposium:

THE CORRECT MOMENT:

3RD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON SUBVERSIVE PAPIER-MÂCHÉ

& OTHER TOOLS FOR CREATIVE DISSENT

Sun., Nov. 13, 7 pm

including panelists Peter Schumann (Artistic Director, Bread and Puppet Theater, www.breadandpuppet.org), Bill Marx (Arts Editor, WBUR, www.wbur.org/arts/), Michael Raysson (President, Museum Independent Security Union at Boston s Museum of Fine Arts, www.mfaguards.org), Regie Gibson (poet, author, workshop facilitator & literary performer, www.regiegibson.com), and other panelists drawn from the local political activist community;

moderated by Dr. John Bell (Puppet Historian, Emerson College professor and author of Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects).

Suggested donation $5





Artistic Director Peter Schumann and his troupe of eight Vermont puppeteers will join forces with 20 local puppeteers and the 12-piece Cambridge-based Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band. Bread and Puppet Theater's residency in Cambridge includes two puppet shows (one geared towards adults and one family-friendly) and the Correct Moment political art symposium. Each of these opportunities will include the traditional serving of Schumann s famous sourdough rye bread, drizzled with garlic-laden aioli, and the sale of the theater s cheap art. Though these "Correct Moment" events have a seriousness of purpose8212; there are always a few laughs thrown in! Take note that for the family-friendly events, if some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, accompanying kids can usually explain them.



(Brief background of the theater)

Bread & Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City's Lower East Side. Besides rod-puppet and hand-puppet shows for children, the concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police and other problems of that neighborhood. More complex theater pieces, in which sculpture, music, dance and language were equal partners, followed. The puppets grew bigger and bigger. Annual presentations for Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving and Memorial Day often included children and adults from the community as participants. Many performances were done in the street. During the Vietnam War, Bread & Puppet staged block-long precessions involving hundreds of people. In 1970 Bread & Puppet moved to Vermont as theater-in-residence at Goddard College, 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 Theater 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. The company makes its income from touring new and old productions on the American continent and abroad and from the sales of Bread & Puppet Press's posters and publications. The traveling puppet shows range from tightly composed theater pieces presented by members of the company, to extensive outdoor pageants, which require the participation of many volunteers. Bread & Puppet is one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in this country.

For more information on Bread and Puppet Theater:

www.breadandpuppet.org

www.chelseagreen.com/2004/items/rehearsingwithgods/Preface,

and

www.cbc.ca/ideas/features/bread_puppet/bibliography.html.

For more information on John Bell s Puppets, Masks and Performing Objects:

www-mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.aspsid=784AF1B0-3864-41F2-824C-8947CCC171B&ttype=2&tid=4192.



Take note that Bread and Puppet Theater will also be participating in Brookline 300 on Sun., Nov. 13th, at Larz Anderson Park. For more information on these "family-friendly" shows, call the Puppet Showplace at 617-731-6400.






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