Bread & Puppet Theater bringing puppetry to Mazomanie

The circus is coming! The circus is coming! Bread & Puppet Theater is making a rare cross-country tour this fall, with performances coast to coast, from New York to Seattle, Los Angeles to New Orleans, and even in Mazomanie, Wisconsin! The iconic political puppet theater company is bringing The Apocalypse Defiance Circus to over 50 cities and towns. Bread and Puppet Theater will present “The Apocalypse Defiance Circus” on Tuesday Sept. 27, at 6:30 p.m, outdoors in downtown Mazomanie, at the Performing Arts Pavilion. The performance is by suggested donation ($10-25) with no one turned away for lack of funds. The show is approximately one hour long. The Apocalypse Defiance Circus, is a bright, raucous melee of short acts governed by a brass band, addressing the heart of the current moment with diverse puppetry styles and spanning many moods, from slapstick to the sublime. After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale. Bread and Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Believing that theater is a basic necessity like bread, the company frequently brings its work to the streets for those who may not otherwise go to the theater. Its shows are political and spectacular, with puppets often on stilts, wearing huge masks with expressive faces, singing, dancing and playing music. Bread and Puppet’s performance in Mazomanie is hosted by the Wild Rumpus Circus/Mazo Movement Arts Center, which has been creating hands-on circus, theater and movement experiences for youth through seniors since 2001. ”We are honored and excited to share the work that we have been inspired by for decades with our local community,” states Wild Rumpus Circus’ co-director, Marcia Miquelon. Co-sponsors of this special visit include Dane Arts and WORT-FM.