Bread and Puppet is proud to host: The Corrugated Spectacles this Sunday July 24th in the Paper Mache Cathedral with a limited capacity of 115 audience. Masks are required for all audience members. Entry by Donation.

The Corrugated Spectacles are puppeteers Caitlin Ross and Denise Rogers Valenzuela. United by their interest in cardboard, political puppetry, and whimsy, they got together to create Variety Box. They develop shows that address ecosocial and feminist topics with glitz, humour and everyday materials—especially corrugated cardboard.

Variety box is a blend between toy theater, puppet circus, and vaudeville performance. A Variety show, if you will. They take the standard corrugated cardboard box as set, performer, and theme to explore various dimensions of this mundane yet alluring object. Drawing from the aesthetic and structure of traditional circus, they present several self-contained acts. These include: a cardboard box burlesque, a strong man act, a sawing act, and a dream-like surrealist commentary on the packaging industry. Through them, they dig into the relationship between the patriarchy, colonialism, and western modernity to the ecosocial climate crisis; the profane and sacred dimensions of ordinary cardboard boxes; and the role of corrugated containers in late-capitalism. They lace their feminist anti-capitalist critique with humour, silliness, live music and cardboard puppets.