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Legion Arts | CSPS
1103 Third St SE
Cedar Rapids, IA  52401

Open 11-6 Weds-Sun
(319) 364-1580

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BOXCUTTER CABARET
CSPS welcomes this touring evening of sundry puppet shows, presented by a ragtag association of cardboard wigglers, horn tooters, trash alchemists, paper-maché chuckers and a human xylophone!
Plus! sweet music from collected brass and string ensembles to tickle your ears and pick up your bones!
And! Feast your eyes on the bell-strapped "Leo the Human Xylophone" as he shakes his way deep into the heart of America!
Featuring the puppet shows Divine Destruction and the Four Nutria of the PreApocalypse; The Story of the Tiny Mouse and the Tiny Cat; The Wonderful and Gruesome Drama of Punch and Judy; The Woodchopper Opera; Public Service Announcements from the Laboratory of Professor D. Wabbit; Old Timey Resistance Manifesto; The
Rural Persons Verbal Reclamation Task Force; and much much more.
And if those spectacles weren't enough, you can also partake of the traveling Cheap Art Gallery and Store. Jam packed with original prints, posters, paintings, subversive booklets and zines, all prices are negotiable and all art impermanent!
The one-night-only, not-to-be-missed, tour de force Boxcutter Cabaret is a collaborative creation of:

 


 

 

Modern Times Theatre from Bellows Falls, Vermont, creating puppet shows for the street, the school, the barn, the pasture and the subway. Modern Times Theatre shows convey a general dissatisfaction with post-modern convenience and promote a return to a life of old-timey difficulty.

R.P.M. Puppet Conspiracy, from Austin, Texas, made up of a bunch of stinky garbage men with trashy ideas, all designed to expose and tear down an apocalyptic vision of global capitalism's disposable planet.

The Dolly Wagglers, from Viroqua, Wisconsin, offering up a new low in lowbrow puppet entertainment, the crankiest of cranky shows, and cantastorias painted on the dirty sheets of America.

 
  The perpetrators and accomplices of the Boxcutter Cabaret are all recent associates of the Bread and Puppet Theater, a Vermont company that performed at CSPS in April 2007. Various members of the Boxcutter troupe have recently been glimpsed at the Honk Fest in Boston; the 2006 Battle of the Jug Bands in Minneapolis; the Barebones Halloween Show in Minneapolis; the Minneapolis Mayday Parade; and other puppetry, theatre and musical events too numerous to name.
The CSPS show will last about 90 minutes. It's appropriate for all ages, though it was made for people old enough to read the newspaper.

Thu Feb 28 | 8 pm
CSPS | 1103 Third St SE | Cedar Rapids
Suggested donation $5 to $10


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