Listen in as longtime Bread & Puppet Theater collaborator John Bell discusses the history and activism of the company, bringing together collaborators from disparate locations, an “accessible and unpretentious” style of theater,” the use and meaning of different kinds of chairs, survival & mutual support, and the magical precarity of live performance.
“…it’s a different type of theater work than what I think of as ‘straight theater’…it’s different, it’s looking around and making due with what’s there…creating from your own experience, using what you’ve got, not being hampered or set back by the challenges, but just sort of making it happen with whatever you have with you…”
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Bread & Puppet Theater presents
The Persians
written by Aeschylus
directed by Peter Schumann
and
Our Domestic Resurrection Circus
directed by Peter Schumann
thru December 19, 2021
Theater for the New City
155 First Avenue
Manhattan
tickets: $18, or $12 for students, seniors, and children
photo by Joseph Gresser
thank you robert gonyo for your open enthusiasm in this interview with john bel –
very inviting for another new generatio0n of bread and puppeteers to join the geezers
“i feel like going on” (song in the repertoire of ysaye barnwell, of sweet honey in the rock)
Thanks John