Description
Vermont’s famous rabble-rousers perform their outdoor Circus at Magazine Beach Park. The Overtakelessness Circus presents the most popular races and competitions of modern life and its economy, including the race between the proletariat and the CEOs, and the race between the limping city pedestrian and the sports car in a typical traffic jam.
The Circus will also commemorate several historic events that do or do not influence modern life, such as the 800th Anniversary of the Magna Carta and the 30th Anniversary of the federally supported firebombing and destruction of the MOVE Family in Philadelphia.
A poem by Emily Dickinson serves as inspiration for the variety of "overtakelessness" themes and slapstick comedies that make up this year's Bread & Puppet Circus.
Presented by Cambridge Arts Summer in the City in partnership with Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association, Inc. and The Friends of Magazine Beach. www.cambridgeartscouncil.org/summerinthecity
Bread and Puppet Theater "The Overtakelessness Circus" photo by Mark Dannenhauer