Bread & Puppet: The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus

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The circus is coming! The circus is coming! The Bread & Puppet Theater will bring its iconic circus to Chicago on September 19, 2024. The company presents The Beginning After the End of Humanity Circus, a brand new show in the tradition of the iconic Bread & Puppet Circuses that began at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont in 1970. As usual, the show will draw on traditional circus tropes and familiar Bread and Puppet iconography to highlight urgent issues of the day. Stilt dancers, paper maché beasts of all sizes and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration. After each show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale. Director Peter Schumann describes the show as featuring, “tigers teaching the congress of cowards how to jump over billionaires and acquire the courage to not pay for the atrocities of the latest genocide; the proverbial sheep of the system refusing to be sheep and committing revolution against the system; and the blue horses of the peace and harmony terrorists of the Northeast Kingdom breaking through the wall of threatening clouds that hide the truth from the population and then galloping over the ruins of the truth industry.” Important Notes: Space is limited! Please book your tickets early and be prepared to sit close to others. Seating will be on the Haymarket House lawn. Bring a blanket to sit on for the show! Tickets are sliding scale. Please consider purchasing a ticket at a higher rate if you can to offset the cost of bringing Bread & Puppet to Chicago!