Bread & Puppet Theater performs Captain Boycott in Boston :: part 1 (of 2)
Learn the origin and power of boycott, and the delights of exquisite puppeteering
3 chapters:
1) A Thing Done In A Seeing Place – a modern re-telling of Antigone
2) The Horizontalists – the anti historic philosophy of horizontalisim, which casts light on historic events
3) Captain Boycott – the story of the boycot’s victory over the Captain who bears that name: Captain Charles Boycott, who in 1880 was pulled off his high horse by his own peasants and had his name removed from his self and repossessed and fitted to thousands of rebellions and protests. The issue is the endless re-occurrences of captainly oppression, whether military or economical. The title of the backdrop of this chapter, Men And Women With Sticks, refers to the 15th and 16th century precedents to captain Boycott: the peasant revolts in the Black Forest and The Upper Rhine Valleys.
photos from last year's performance of the "shatterer"
photos by skip schiel & teeksa photography
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