Bread & Puppet Theatre Trip

On September 24-28, 2008 (Wed-Sun), Professor Heinlein will be taking a group of students to Maryland to participate in rehearsals and a performance with the iconic Bread and Puppet Theatre. B&P will be performing a short residency at Saint Mary’s College of Maryland, and the faculty at SMCM have been so good as to invite a group of us to join them for this once in a lifetime opportunity. Bread and Puppet entered popular culture during the war protests in the early 1970’s and has since become the nations longest surviving, and most attended, not-for-profit theatre company. Known for their oversize “puppetry” and socio-political posturing, they were most recently featured in the film Across the Universe.

SMCM is close to Washington D.C. It is quite likely that we will utilize a bit of our time to visit the Folger Shakespeare Library or view a production at the Shakespeare Theatre or Arena Stage.

Please contact Kurt Heinlein (kurtheinlein@missouristate.edu) a.s.a.p. if you are interested in attending.

At this point we need to get estimated numbers to see if there is interest to justify hard planning. The trip is open to all Theatre and Dance students and faculty, with the exception of those cast in The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines. Those cast in Succeed would need to attain prior permission from Michael Casey, as it may conflict with those early rehearsals. There will be some nominal cost for the trip, notably your airfare to Washington D.C. and your food costs. There should be no cost for lodging or participation.

This truly is a once in a lifetime opportunity to work with a company straight out of your history book. Take advantage of it! Space is limited.

Some relevant links about B&P and SMC:

http://www.breadandpuppet.org/

http://www.jiffysite.com/gpdesigns/puppets/