Bread & Puppet Theater will present The Divine Reality Comedy Circus in Monroe Park at 3pm on Sunday, October 28th! THE DIVINE REALITY COMEDY CIRCUS features famous rats leaving a sinking ship, the triumph of the small farmer, smart advice on where to get your water, a celebratory ballet by a flock of roosters, the Rotten Idea Theater Company’s distillation of political issues and much more, all accompanied by the Bread & Puppet Circus Band.

From the Press Release:

Take note that if some of the circus acts are politically puzzling to adults, accompanying kids can usually explain them.
This new work from Bread & Puppet Theater will be performed by nine puppeteers from their company and a group of volunteer performers from your local community! Admission: Donations strongly suggested! The performance in Richmond is co-produced by Candyland Music and the Fan District Association. For more information please write ALL THE SAINTS THEATER COMPANY @ allthesaints@comcast.net.

The Bread & Puppet Theater is one of the oldest non-profit, self-supporting theatrical companies in the U.S. The theater has been enacting its radical utopian vision in cardboard and cloth for over forty years, from the spectacle of its larger-than-life puppets at Vietnam War protests in New York City to the pageantry of its long-running (over 25 years) annual event, “Our Domestic Resurrection Circus; in Glover, Vermont. The latter event regularly attracted audiences in the tens of thousands up to the late 1990’s. Author and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has praised “the genius of Peter Schumann
[artistic director], the prodigious puppet-God,” writing “the Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America’s conscious struggle for our better selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.”