The Return of Ulysses
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Dec 2, 2010
Closed Dec 19, 2010
Opened Dec 2, 2010
Closed Dec 19, 2010
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In order to commit genocide on their competitors, the Trojans, the tricky Greeks employ their multitalented sky, full of custom tailored divinities, to justify the crime, just as we employ our Judeo-Christian sky, occupied by a divine air force and permitted by the in-god-we-trust court system, to justify our atrocities in Afghanistan, Palestine and elsewhere. By order of Jove, the boss, and with special help from his daughter Minerva, Ulysses finally returns home, where he has to murder 100 evil suitors in order to be happily reunited with wife and property. The piece comes with two prologues, "Modern Sky" and "Antique Sky."
The Return of Ulysses runs concurrently with Bread and Puppet's children's show The Decapitalization Circus.
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If you're going to provide a 39-year run of radical holiday productions -- as Bread & Puppet Theater founder Peter Schumann has done all these decades at the Theater for the New City -- not every show is necessarily going to be a knockout. The troupe's latest work, The Return of Ulysses, sketchily based on the 1640 Monteverdi opera, Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria, is definitely on the understated side as these spectacles go.
The work begins with two brief prologues, and the first of these, "Modern Sky," represents Bread & Puppet's strong suit: incisive political commentary swathed in unsettling, dreamlike visuals. A cluster of black-hooded figures bounce in an eerie oom-pah-pah as they blo[...]