The one and only Bread & Puppet Circus is hitting the road! This fall The Upside Down World Circus will tour cities and towns across the country, landing in Oklahoma City on October 10th, 2026! Get ready for a show featuring puppets big and small, acts serious and silly, and performances slapstick and sublime. Stilt dancers, papier-maché beasts, and a riotous brass band make a raucous, colorful spectacle of protest and celebration.

With this show, director Peter Schumann asks, “Is it or is it not? Am I asleep or am I awake? Am I a cockroach or am I me?” He continues with a distinctly Bread & Puppet call to action: “Possibilitarians! We must demonstrate humanity’s upside-down situation in the face of the government’s depraved falsehoods. Luxury silence and despair must be replaced by revolt orchestras that radically oppose the radically wrong system. It is time to unforget the revolution-in-progress and aim for the evermore on the universe’s shore.”

After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.

In addition to the performance on Saturday, October 10th, the Oklahoma City tour stop also includes a hands-on workshop opportunity. On Friday, October 9th, 6-9pm the Bread & Puppet crew will host 30 participants who will go behind-the-scenes of the show. Bread & Puppet’s work features diverse puppetry and street theater performance styles to tell vital stories of the moment. Through the lens of a rehearsal process, participants in the workshop will be introduced to these performance styles and methods. The workshop culminates with participants performing alongside Bread & Puppet company members in the performance the following day.

Now in its 63rd year, Bread & Puppet will tour to some of its regular fall stops including New York, Cambridge, and Baltimore, as well as to cities and towns in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri. The full tour schedule is available at BreadAndPuppet.org/Tour. Join us for a serious and silly circus!

Get tickets and support the Oklahoma City show here!

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This Event/Opportunity is provided by Kelsey Karper and is not in direct affiliation with Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition (OVAC).
The address for this event is: 311 S Klein Ave, OKC, OK 73108

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