Bread & Puppet returns to Barre with "Diagonal Man"
The bewildering, beguiling, and downright funny implications of diagonality will spring to life when the internationally-acclaimed Bread & Puppet Theater returns for its annual performance at Barre's Old Labor Hall Sunday, April 14th at 6 PM with "Diagonal Man: Theory and Praxis."
Featuring song, dance, magic, and stunning cardboard and paper maché puppets, "Diagonal Man," according to Bread and Puppet, "presents the diagonal as a potent and promising opposition to the dominating verticality of our culture." Modern Westerners experience verticality everywhere: in the architecture of cities, in ladders of success, and in "the incessant wakefulness required of us, postponing the horizontal pleasures of sleep."
"Puppeteers," the theater adds, "long ago realized that the most aesthetically radical movements for puppets are diagonals, because these movements cannot be sustained by human actors or dancers for more than a moment."
Founded in 1963 on New York City's Lower East Side, Bread &Puppet has become a Vermont institution since moving to Goddard College in Plainfield and then to Glover, in the early 1970s.
In keeping with tradition, the performance will be followed by Bread and Puppet's famous free sourdough rye bread with aioli butter and the Old Labor Hall's delicious soup.
Doors open at 4:30
Admission to "Diagonal Man" is a sliding scale of $10-$25. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Tickets will be available at the door.
For reservations and more information email info@oldlaborhall.org, call (802) 479-5600, or text (802) 331-0013. The Labor Hall Web site is http://oldlaborhall.org/. Proceeds benefit the Old Labor Hall and Bread & Puppet Theater.
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