TEMPLE — The Temple Stream Theater Bakery will present “Bitter Fruits and Combat Boots: a Hip Hopera” with renowned puppeteer Amy Trompetter and hip-hop artist Zero Prophet at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 11.

Text sources for the show include Medieval Mystery Plays, Punch and Judy and the news coming from Black Lives Matter protests in Ferguson, Mo., and Baltimore. The innocence of the hand puppet is well-paired with the justified rage that gives birth to rap.

Trompetter designs, directs and performs puppet shows. Her roots are in the Bread and Puppet Theater in 1960s New York City. Recent work include an exhibit at the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry in Storrs, Conn. She also created giant puppets for the Women’s Pentagon Action, inspired by Vermont activist, writer and feminist Grace Paley.

Zero Prophet, known as Not4Prophet, creates and performs hip-hop honed afro aesthetic indigenous-inspired political poetry, militant music and subversive sounds. He is an experimentalist, performance poet, singer, songwriter, agitator and Neo Rican-style emoter, with dirt roots in the streets of New York City. His keen awareness of civic power marks Not4Prophet as a public poet, or what he likes to call himself, a “barrio bard.”

The cost is a $10 donation and includes wood-fired pizza and the performance.

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