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The Divinity Supply Company
From out of nothing, an ancient god’s divine laughter creates the universe, then promptly abandons the scene. Ruled over by flimsy paper authorities, the newly created masses attempt to escape the darkness of the suffering valley with help from The Divinity Supply Company. But can The Divinity Supply Company produce the exact god for the exact dilemma, as they advertise? Also featuring: clouds, Santa Claus, an Idiot Manifesto, a brass band, and a 100 watt lightbulb. The Divinity Supply Company is a new puppet show collaboration between Peter Schumann of the Bread and Puppet Theater and Boxcutter Collective. It was produced by and premiered at The La MaMa Experimental Theater Club in June 2022.
The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side. The concerns of the first productions were rents, rats, police, and other problems of the neighborhood. In 1974 Bread and Puppet moved to a farm in Glover, Vermont. Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, a two day outdoor festival of puppetry shows, was presented annually through 1998. Today the shows range from tightly composed theater pieces presented by members of the company to extensive outdoor pageants. Bread and Puppet continues to be one of the oldest, nonprofit, political theater companies in the world.
Boxcutter Collective is a Brooklyn based puppet theater collective made up of 5 core members: Sam Wilson, Jason Hicks, Ali Dineen, Tom Cunningham and Joseph Therrien. It was established in 2016 by members who had met and worked together at the Bread and Puppet Theater. Since then the Boxcutters have been hell-bent on making all kinds of shows to confront the humanity-threatening dilemma of the status quo. Boxcutter Collective performs regularly in Brooklyn at the fabulous Jalopy Theater and beyond.
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This performance is an official part of the Puppeteers of America Northeast/Mid-Atlantic PUPPET HOMECOMING Regional Festival. For more information, and the full schedule, please visit www.puppethomecoming.org