THE MOONDOG MADRIGAL PUPPET SHOW
In the 1940s, two famous vagrants were meandering through the streets of New York City. Both of them were willfully homeless. Both were artists. The first man, Joe Gould – subject of a notorious New...
View ArticlePUPPET POWER VS. POLLUTED POLITICS
The People’s Rally for Clean Air It was high noon on Friday when a huge 15-foot Scott Brown puppet and his two money-grubbing fat cat toadies, dubbed “Coal” and “Oil,” rose into the air like fossil...
View ArticleFREE FOR ALL: PUPPETS ON THE COMMON
As if the Boston Common couldn’t get any older. The Friends of the Public Garden, the group who helped outlaw the erecting of buildings which cast a shadow on the Common, have apparently grown weary of...
View ArticleRUDYARD KIPLING PUPPETS @ BROOKLING BOOKSMITH
We can forgive Rudyard Kipling for the whole contributing-to-institutional-racism thing (well, okay, forgive is a strong word … more like, “put within perspective of how goddamn racist everybody...
View ArticleSUBCULTURED: PROTEST PUPPETEERS
It’s safe to say that The Muppet Show is one of the first things that comes to mind when puppetry is mentioned. Jim Henson, the creator of The Muppet Show, is a cultural icon, a real accomplishment...
View ArticleFROM THE AISLE: AVENUE Q
The central conceit at the heart of the humor of Avenue Q is simple: what if puppets were vulgar, cynical and honest instead of cutesy, encouraging and happy? What if they cursed and drank and had sex?...
View ArticleSEX ADVICE FROM ENGLISH MAJORS: DON’T DO ME LIKE THAT
Dear Ken and Ariel. My boyfriend of five months and I just started sleeping together, and I gotta tell you, the sex is beyond bad. It’s almost comically weird. He makes very odd gestures, like an...
View ArticleTHE POSSIBILITARIANS: HEADS UP FOR BREAD AND PUPPET’S INSURRECTION CIRCUS
Photos courtesy of Bread and Puppet Theater There are puppet shows. There are circuses. And then there’s Bread and Puppet’s Our Domestic Insurrection Circus, which is not likely to be so recognizable...
View ArticleTHE POSSIBILITARIANS: HEADS UP FOR BREAD AND PUPPET’S INSURRECTION CIRCUS
"I think the show is meant to shake city slickers and country cornstalks alike out of their complacency in the face of the destruction of the planet and the political and economic tyranny under which...
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