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Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003
7:30
AH! THE HOPEFUL PAGEANTRY OF BREAD AND PUPPET
Mother Earth, a towering Uncle Sam, a giant mournful refugee-these are just a sampling of the large-scale puppets created from papier mâché and paint for the Bread and Puppet Theater. DeeDee Halleck, founder of Paper Tiger TV, and Tamar Schumann, a playwright and daughter of Bread and Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann, have assembled a joyous array of intimate documentation surrounding the last ten years of the Theater's annual summer event, The Domestic Resurrection Circus, held outdoors at the Theater's Vermont farm. Puppet making, music rehearsals, bread baking, even moving the new outhouse into place are all part of the communal activity that fuels this spirited political art. Selections from the circus and accompanying pageants and sideshows reveal that, as Peter Schumann proclaims, puppets “provide the world with an unfragmented and uncontrollably large picture of itself, a picture that only puppetry can draw, a picture that praises and attacks at the same time.”
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