BREAD AND PUPPET: The Persian & Our Domestic Resurrection Circus

Tickets $18, Students/Seniors/Children $12

Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Saturday 11th at 8 pm
Saturday 11th and Sunday 12th at 3 pm

Thursday 16th, Friday 17th and Saturday 18th at 8 pm.
Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th at 3 pm

Bread & Puppet Theater returns to TNC with Aeschylus’ tragedy The Persians. The show brings together musicians, composers, builders and puppeteers from many eras of Bread & Puppet’s history, and includes giant puppets, flying plastic, Lubberland gesturing, a chorus of screamers, and Johann Sebastian Bach. “When Athens commissioned Aeschylus to write the official celebration piece for the Greeks’ miraculous victory over the vastly superior Persian Empire invasion force they must have expected just that: a glorification of national prowess & skill”, says Peter Schumann. “What they got instead is the opposite: heartrending compassion for the slain enemy, lamentation for the despairing mothers & widows of the slain warriors. Can our own permanently waring military industrial empire learn from this?”

 
Our Domestic Resurrection Circus:

Bread & Puppet returns to TNC with Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, a colorful spectacle of protest and celebration. Flag wavers, boxboard clowns, prancing blue horses and Bread & Puppet’s Doing-The-Best-We-Can Brass Band combine to tell the stories of the moment. “For a second year in a row, we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Our Domestic Resurrection Circus”, says director Peter Schumann. The show is “in response to our totally unresurrected capitalist situation, not only the hundreds of thousands of unnecessarily sacrificed pandemic victims but our culture’s unwillingness to recognize Mother Earth’s revolt against our civilization. Since we earthlings do not live up to our earthling obligations, we need resurrection circuses to yell against our own stupidity.”

COVID Protocol and Etiquette:
As of August 17 2021, people 12 and older are required to show proof they have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine authorized for emergency use by the FDA or WHO.
Proof of vaccination may include the NYC Vaccination Record, CDC Vaccination Card (or photo), Excelsior Pass or NYC COVID Safe App.

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