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Peter Schumann

PETER SCHUMANN

  
Nationality:    USA
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Peter Schumann's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates

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below is a list of Peter Schumann's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Attica/Man of Flesh and Cardboard         Bread and Puppet theater         Man = Carrot Circus

Attica/Man of Flesh and Cardboard

Synopsis:
For the 40th anniversary of the Attica prison uprising, Bread and Puppet presents "Attica," which was created 40 years ago in direct response to the massacre and first performed in Bread and Puppet's Coney Island theater. the second part of the program, "Man of Flesh and Cardboard," is about PFC Bradley Manning, the soldier who was incarcerated for supplying restricted material to WikiLeaks. He is accused of war crimes because he brought war crimes to the light of day.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First AVenue, New York, NY 10009    01 Dec 2011

Organisations:
Bread and Puppet Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
puppet Drama

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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Bread and Puppet theater

Synopsis:
For the 39th year, Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet theater will return to theater for the New City with two new works, one for adults and one for family audiences. For adults, there will be Bread and Puppet's own, "respectfully truncated" version of Claudio Monteverdi's opera, the Return of Ulysses. the production has been developed out of a collaboration that Schumann and his company did in June with the theatre Department of Concordia University in Montreal and the Montreal Baroque Festival. Schumann describes the plot writing, "In order to commit genocide on their competitors, the Trojans, the tricky Greeks employ their multi-talented sky, full of custom tailored divinities, to justify the crime, just as we employ our Judeo-Christian sky, occupied by a divine air force and permitted by the in-god-we-trust court system, to justify our atrocities in Afghanistan, Palestine, and elsewhere. By order of Jove, the boss, and with special help from his daughter Minerva, Ulysses finally returns home, where he has to murder 100 evil suitors in order to be happily reunited with wife and property." the piece comes with two prologues, "Modern Sky" and "Antique Sky." the show for family audiences will be the Decapitalization Circus, a play that demonstrates in numerous death-defying stunts the phantastic effects of the capitalization of life in the U.S. and citizens' courageous efforts of decapitalization. the performers represent the whole scale of the social spectrum from benign billionairism to despicable homeless anti-social-elementarianism. All the acts are FDA and FBI certified displays of patriotic correctness and defy all imaginable forms of terrorism. the Possibilitarians, a multi-instrumental variety ensemble, provide the appropriate-inappropriate sounds for the circus. Both shows will be performed by the Bread & Puppet Company and a large number of local volunteers, who will also be part of the Brass Band. the theater will be decorated with the unique Bread and Puppet collection of powerful black-line posters, banners, masks, curtains, programs and set-props.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First AVenue, New York, NY 10009    02 Dec 2010

Organisations:
-

1st Published:
Ny: Routledge   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Piece

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
http://www2.iath.virginia.edu/sixties/HTML_docs/Resources/Bibliographies/VN_drama_bib.php

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Man = Carrot Circus

Synopsis:
Man = Carrot Circus is based on the revelation that an upright man rooted in dirt was created in the image of the upright carrot rooted in dirt.
- nytheatre.com

Notes:
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1st Produced:
Theater for the New City
155 First AVenue, New York, NY 10009    01 Dec 2011

Organisations:
Bread and Puppet Theater

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
puppet Drama 55 min

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

Further Reference:
-

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