The Flying Rutabaga Cycle Circus!
BIKE CARAVAN CIRCUS ACROSS THE CORNBELT!
DEPARTURE: May 19, 2003 World Agricultural Forum, St. Louis, MO.
ARRIVAL: June 19, 2003 Biotechnology Industry Organization Convention, Washington, DC
"We are members from the Puppetual Motion Cycle Circus, Liberty Cabbage Theater Revival, and a few more clown coalitions, who together comprise a rag-tag ensemble of circus acts, puppet shows, jugglers and musical numbers. Join in on the low-tech, high-energy, rough-and-tumble action that will spring up in unlikely places: street corners, farmers markets, farms, community centers, the steps of your city hall, or the National Mall. We’ll also offer lectures, debates, panel discussions and workshops for the heady and information hungry."
"Lets make one thing clear, this is not a ride for sport. This is transport. We will move approximately 40-50 miles a day, while carrying loads of puppetshows, musical instruments, and other gear that we will need for survival. But most importantly, we are carrying a message to the people and to Washington to say to say, “Stop Playing With Our Food!” Everyone knows that Monsanto’s former execs now sit pretty in the FDA. We challenge them to a food fight! "
"We are a group of concerned bicyclists, puppeteers, musicians, farmhands, clowns, cheerleaders, activists, eaters of food and drinkers of water. We are united in a quest to seek out food (thats our fuel) that is not tampered with by biotechnology corporations. We ride for diversity, organic farming, and biojustice everywhere!"
-The Flying Rutabaga Cycle Circus
Photos by: BxB
CYCLOPS : cycling-oriented puppet squad based in Toronto
Written & Directed by David Anderson & Amira Emma Routledge
Design by Amira Emma Routledge
Music Direction by Chris Wilson & Nuno Cristo
Design by Amira Emma Routledge
Music Direction by Chris Wilson & Nuno Cristo
Clay & Paper Theatre proudly presents our first ever bicycle-based mobile play: The Pedaler’s Wager. This original comedy features puppetry, live music, and our very own CYCLOPS: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad. Each weekend audience members are invited to cycle from act to act alongside performers, literally following the troupe to the show’s conclusion.
We invite you on a journey through an epic tale of modernity, as spun by a peddler and his troupe who risk their livelihoods to tell this story of societal transformation. When a small family is forced to leave their riverside home, cajoled by developer Baron Boots, his consort Lady Grabsome, their disastrously hungry son Otto, and a smooth-talking PR Department, where will they go? Pushed into the new life of the Future, how will the family survive?
This ambitious undertaking is the culmination of three years of development establishing Clay & Paper Theatre’s CYCLOPS: Cycling Oriented Puppet Squad. This show will take Clay & Paper’s unique brand of theatre to the streets; animating and energizing Toronto’s public spaces, promoting active living, and drawing attention to urban environmental issues through original bicycle-infused theatre.
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