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November 6th, 2019, 4:30-6:30pm Fine Arts Center, UMass Campus

Free and Open to the Public Sponsored by the

Social Thought and Political Economy Program

Bread and Puppet is a world renowned anti-capitalist theater company thathas peformed with their signature

puppets for over 50 years. It is one of the oldest street and protest theater companies

in the world. The troupe will perform: The Essential Furthermore.

The show draws on the peasant rebellions of the 1400 and 1500s to

address the need for insurrection against the status quo of planetary ecological collapse, and hostility to the refugees created by natural and human-made disasters. The show demonstrates the

power of mass political and social movements with massive dances in

Bread and Puppet’s pedestrian expressionist “Lubberland” style, building

momentum as the piece grows into a multivocal fugue on several themes of

the moment: totalitarianism, extinction and “the normalization of the

unthinkable”.

Bread+Puppet Theater

Presents

The Essential Furthermore

Volunteers Wanted: If you are interested in performing in the show please contact Eli Bondar: ebondar@umass.edu. No theater skills needed (STPEC)