World Famous Bread Puppet Theater Company to Perform Outdoors at Drexel Tomorrow

World Famous Bread & Puppet Theater Company to Perform Outdoors at Drexel Tomorrow
What: The Bread & Puppet Theater Company, one of the country’s oldest non-profit theatrical companies, will perform “Divine Reality Comedy Circus” outdoors at Drexel University on Saturday.At the University for a two-day residency, the Bread & Puppet Theater Company held workshops this week for students that taught the art of street theater, including how to create puppets and how to generate public awareness for a cause.Visuals: The Theater champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art. Its shows are political and spectacular, with puppets made of papier-maché and cardboard. The Theater has been enacting its radical utopian vision in cardboard and cloth for over 40 years. When: Saturday, April 19, 2008 from 4 to 5 p.m.Where: The Drexel Quad, 33rd Street between Market and Chestnut Streets News Media Contact: Niki Gianakaris, Assistant Director, Drexel News Bureau 215-895-6741, 215-778-7752 (cell) or ngianakaris@drexel.eduOn-site Contact: Zeek Weil, Director of Communication, Westphal College 215-360-7600 (cell)