THE BENTON'S OUTDOOR FILM SERIES BEGINS Wednesday, September 2, at 7:30pm
Showing Brother Bread, Sister Puppet -- a tremendously engaging documentary on Bread & Puppet Theater, known for its street theater and political satire.
Enjoy this teaser clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyudUEuHF0c
Speak Up! Speak Out! Bread & Puppet Theater is on view at the Benton through October 11. The 50-year retrospective of the theater company’s work features their activist responses to fundamental political and social issues that have defined American culture, including the war in Vietnam; Central American turmoil and Liberation Theology; the politics of black liberation as represented by the Attica prison uprising and the M.O.V.E. family in Philadelphia; opposition to nuclear weapons and nuclear power; and the war in Iraq.
Admission to the film is FREE.
THE WILLIAM BENTON MUSEUM OF ART
University of Connecticut
School of Fine Arts
245 Glenbrook Road
Storrs, CT
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For more information, contact: The Benton at 860-486-4520