{"id":1213,"date":"2010-01-25T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1213"},"modified":"2010-01-26T14:43:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T18:43:55","slug":"bread-puppet-theater-returns-to-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2010\/01\/25\/bread-puppet-theater-returns-to-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread &amp; Puppet Theater Returns to Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1214\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1214\" title=\"IMG_0960\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/IMG_0960.png\" alt=\"Bob Bowes local member of BPT\" width=\"540\" height=\"483\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/IMG_0960.png 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/IMG_0960-300x268.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bob Bowes local member of BPT<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I first saw <a href=\"http:\/\/breadandpuppet.org\/\">Bread and Puppet Theater<\/a> in the basement of the Washington Square Methodist Church in NYC. The Vietnam War was at it&#8217;s height. The performance was nearly silent, but it was the strongest anti-war statement I had encountered. \u00a0Sometimes they appear without warning. For &#8216;Mr. Bhutto&#8217;s Letter&#8217;<sup>1<\/sup> they performed at the Mass College of Art.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This week<\/strong>: All week; free art exhibit.<\/p>\n<p>Monday January 25 free artist talk and reception 6-8PM<\/p>\n<p>Evening Adult Shows <strong>&#8220;Tear Open the Door of Heaven&#8221;<\/strong> Jan\u00a0. 28-31 Thurs.-Sun. 7 PM <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/boston\/shows\/bread-and-puppet-theater-tear-open-the-door-of-heaven_162067\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advance tix<\/a><sup>2<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Family Friendly <strong>&#8220;Dirt Cheap Money Circus&#8221;<\/strong> Matinees Jan 30-31, Sat. &amp; Sun. \u00a04PM \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/boston\/shows\/bread-and-puppet-theater-dirt-cheap-money-circus_162065\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advance Tix<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All right! None of you made the Artist Reception. I know cuz I took attendance. My bad, not enough warning. You&#8217;re all plan your life types. So here are some pictures.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1220\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1220\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1220\" title=\"mainstage\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/mainstage.png\" alt=\"Artists Reception - Bread and Puppet Theater @ Cyclorama\" width=\"540\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/mainstage.png 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/mainstage-300x110.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1220\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists Reception - Bread and Puppet Theater @ Cyclorama<\/p><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1221\" title=\"sidestage\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/sidestage.png\" alt=\"sidestage\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/sidestage.png 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/sidestage-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1222\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1222\" title=\"madonna\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/madonna.png\" alt=\"Now that's a puppet! Massive and yet it moves!\" width=\"540\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/madonna.png 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/01\/madonna-225x300.png 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Now that&#39;s a puppet! Massive and yet it moves!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><sup>1<\/sup> about the tragedy of the IMF as told by a disillusioned leader thereof<\/p>\n<p><sup>2<\/sup>This link has been broken and fixed more than once. Not a scintilla of a clue! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatermania.com\/boston\/shows\/\" target=\"_blank\">This, hopefully will get you to the &#8216;shows&#8217; page.<\/a> Bread and Puppet shows are marked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I first saw Bread and Puppet Theater in the basement of the Washington Square Methodist Church in NYC. The Vietnam War was at it&#8217;s height. The performance was nearly silent, but it was the strongest anti-war statement I had encountered. \u00a0Sometimes they appear without warning. For &#8216;Mr. Bhutto&#8217;s Letter&#8217;1 they performed at the Mass College [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1069],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-feeds-you"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1213"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1216,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1213\/revisions\/1216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}