Maple Corner Community Center

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Modern Times Theater Presents…

The Perils of Mr. Punch, Episode #73: "Let's Disagree to Agree" at the Maple Corner Community Center on Sunday, October 20, 2024 at 3:00 p.m.

Admission by Donation at the Door - Suggested Donation Adults $10-$20 Kids $5-$10

Don't miss it!

ABOUT THE SHOW
Punch and Judy are back for the latest installment of their centuries-old adventure. But, they can't seem to agree on anything. He says tomato, she says eggplant, and they're both looking at a turnip. Meanwhile, the alligator sharpens his teeth, the baby sitter is a fox, and the baby is, well, a baby. Will Punch and Judy put their quarrels aside or will they double down on their trouble?

Happy ending or not, Mr. Punch will perform his traditional grump-ectomee on the audience. In this all ages entertainment extravaganza, children will ascend to new heights of uncontrollable laughter, and parents will actually leave their phones in their pockets. It's a low-tech old-time spectacle, as entertaining to the masses of today as it was three hundred years ago.

The hand puppets are created from up-cycled designer trash and performed in an eccentric itinerant puppet stage. The show is hosted per tradition by a "bottler", the uku-lady Rose Friedman. Justin Lander, showman of the absurd, portrays all the characters.

The program is rounded out with live music played on a variety of instruments, from the cornet to the bicycle pump.

Modern Times Theater has been adapting and updating Punch and Judy puppet shows, creating Vaudeville acts, and writing original novelty songs for over a decade. They pursue a radically divergent model of art making, creating venues in unlikely locations, and revitalizing the historic, run-down, and defunct. Working in populist theater forms, they seek to reinvent and reimagine classic American entertainment that the whole family can enjoy.

Mark Your Calendars!

Here's what is happening at the Maple Corner Community Center!

- Saturday, October 5 from 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. - Fall Foliage Brunch at the Maple Corner Community
Center - Come join your neighbors for a delicious home cooked, a la carte meal including corn chowder,
quiche, cider, baked goods, and more.
- Thursday, October 10 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Intro to Sewing Classes with Carolyn Herz
- Sunday, October 13 from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Drawing Class with Susan Sawyer
- Thursday, October 17 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Intro to Sewing Classes with Carolyn Herz
- Sunday, October 20 at 3:00 p.m. - Modern Times Theater presents The Perils of Mr. Punch, Episode #73:
"Let's Disagree to Agree"
- Sunday, October 20 at 5:30 - Potluck and Happenings at the Maple Corner Community Store Information
Session
- Thursday, October 24 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Intro to Sewing Classes with Carolyn Herz
- Thursday, November 7 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. - Intro to Sewing Classes with Carolyn Herz
- Friday, November 8 at 7:00 p.m. - Film Screening w/ Rick Winston (More details coming soon)
- Sunday, November 9 from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Drawing Class with Susan Sawyer
- Tuesday, November 12 from 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. - Potluck and Presentation by the Vermont Ethics Network:
Putting Together your Advanced Directive
- Friday, November 29 at 7:00 p.m. - Film Screening w/ Rick Winston (More details coming soon)
- Saturday, December 7 starting at 10:00 a.m. - Holiday Craft Fair
- Sunday, December 8 from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Drawing Class with Susan Sawyer
- Saturday, December 14 - Movie Screening of "Just Getting By" and Q&A with filmmaker Bess O'Brien
(More details coming soon)
- Sunday, December 15 from 1:00-4:00 p.m. - Family Holiday Celebration