PUTNEY — Inspired by the coming elections, Vermont's own Bread and Puppet Theater will perform a brand new, giant puppet show on Sunday, May 8, at 7 p.m., at Next Stage in Putney.
“The Underneath the Above Show #1” is written and directed by Bread and Puppet founder Peter Schumann, who says his new production is “a puppet-show contribution to the ongoing U.S. presidential election campaign.”
“In our show, the normally slightly overweight three-dimensional electorate is reduced to its proper election year cardboard two-dimensionality,” Schumann says. “Hardhat workers help to demonstrate the elementary dissatisfaction of this cardboard electorate and its desire for a new king who will promote life, health, home, and general protection from evil.”
After the performance, Bread and Puppet will serve its famous, free sourdough rye bread with aioli to the public, and Bread and Puppet's “Cheap Art” - books, posters, postcards, pamphlets, and banners from the Bread and Puppet Press - will be for sale.
This show is appropriate for all ages but contains some loud noises.