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  Bread and Puppet Theater
The Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 on New York City's Lower East Side by Silesian-born sculptor and choreographer Peter Schumann.
Peter Schumann and The Bread and Puppet Theater have received the Obie Award, the Erasmus Award from Amsterdam, the Vermont Governor's Award for Excellence in the Arts, and the Puppeteers of America Award.
Bread and Puppet's performance is sponsored by the William J. Cooper Serendipity Fund, the Departments of English Literature, Religion, and Theater, the Dean's Office, Drama Board, and the School in Rose Valley.
www.swarthmore.edu /news/releases/03/breadandpuppet.html   (431 words)

  
  Bread and Puppet Theater - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name Bread and Puppet derives from the theater's practice of sharing its own fresh bread, served for free with a strong garlic aioli, with the audience of each performance as a means of creating community, and from its central principle that art should be as basic to life as bread.
Bread and Puppet volunteers were among the 79 people arrested at a warehouse in Philadelphia during the 2000 Republican National Convention.
The Bread and Puppet Theater is a regular participant in New York's Village Halloween Parade, noted for its use of giant puppets.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bread_and_Puppet_Theater   (1005 words)

  
 CBC Radio | Ideas | Features - Bread & Puppet Theatre
In New York City, in the early 1960's a new theatre was born - the Bread and Puppet Theatre - named for the coarse, flavourful sourdough bread that was given out at its performances, and for the grave, evocative puppet figures that were the theatre's main performers.
Bread and Puppet has also been one of the sources of the current efflorescence of political puppetry.
The circuses and pageants were held on the Bread and Puppet farm in a large field with a natural amphitheatre for the audience at one end.
www.cbc.ca /ideas/features/bread_puppet   (1454 words)

  
 WAC | Press Release | 1999 | Bread & Puppet Theater
The residency is copresented by In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre.
Bread and Puppet's massive spectacles, performed in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America, address social, political, and environmental issues as well as the common urgencies of our lives.
Tickets for the Bread and Puppet Theater performances are $12 ($8 Walker members) and are available by calling In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre at 612.721.2535.
www.walkerart.org /archive/6/BBA391CDFD0E88536170.htm   (657 words)

  
 Unity College - Bread & Puppet
The Bread and Puppet Theater is scheduled to perform “The Insurrection Mass with Funeral March for a Rotten Idea” at the Unity College gymnasium on Sunday, March 28, at 6:30 p.m.
Bread and Puppet is known for its massive spectacles, which it performs in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America.
The Vermont farm that is Bread and Puppet’s base of operations became the destination for many a summer pilgrimage to witness and participate in the annual Domestic Resurrection Circus.
www.unity.edu /News/releases/Bread&Puppet.asp   (393 words)

  
 Bread & Puppet
The name Bread & Puppet derives from the theater's practice of sharing its own fresh bread, for free, with the audience of each performance as a means of creating community, and from its central principle that art should be as basic to life as bread.
Until 2000, the Bread & Puppet Theater was a staple of the New York Halloween Parade, until it was disinvited by officially-appointed parade organizer Jeanne Fleming.
After September 11, 2001 the Theater returned to New York with The Insurrection Mass with Funeral March for a Rotten Idea, a "non-religious service." The "Insurrection Masses" are a common format for the Bread & Puppet Theater, as are such "Funerals," though the rotten ideas change.
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After studying theater at Vermont’s Middlebury College in the late ’60s, he found work as a puppeteer for the New York City Department of Recreation, as a street performer, and eventually in the avant-garde Theater of the Open Eye, a multi-disciplinary stage company run by Jean Erdman, the wife of the mythologist Joseph Campbell.
Along with his own wife, the accomplished German puppeteer Ines Zeller Bass, he founded the award-winning puppet-centric Sandglass Theater in Munich in 1982; since 1986 the Theater has resided in Putney, Vermont, where it maintains a tiny barn performance space, and has toured extensively.
What we take from Bread and Puppet is a sense of relevance, a sense of imagery.
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 Bread and puppet   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bread and puppet She has worked for eleven years with the Bread and Puppet Theater,.
Bread and puppet Full text of the article, 'Bread and Puppet Theater' from Whole Earth, a publication in the field of Health & Fitness, is provided free of charge by.
Bread and puppet Thursday, April 15, 2004 8 pm in theBallroom at the Bread and Puppet Farm.
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 Theater for the New City - Bread & Puppet Theater
Bread and Puppet Theater's "White Ladies," who are featured characters in "The Battle of the Terrorists and the Horrorists." Photo by Robert Sturgill.
By the '80s, the puppets had become emblematic of activist pacifism and a sine qua non of American political theater, as exemplified by the massive, ascending figures that are burned into the memory of anyone who marched with or saw the haunting, massive June 12, 1982 Disarmament Parade in New York City.
Internationally, Bread and Puppet Theater performs massive spectacles with hundreds of participants, sometimes devoted to social, political and environmental issues and sometimes simply to the trials of everyday life.
www.theaterforthenewcity.net /bread.htm   (1259 words)

  
 Bread and Puppet Theater present two plays at the Johnson Theatre, from 30 Nov - 17 Dec 2006
It's 35 years since Peter Schumann's Bread and Puppet Theater first performed at Theater for the New City, and the acclaimed ensemble will return to TNC from 30 Nov to 17 Dec 2006 with two new works, one for adults and one for children.
Bread and Puppet, founded in 1962 on the Lower East Side, is now an internationally recognized company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art.
Their puppets of all kinds and sizes, masks, sculptural costumes, paintings, buildings and landscapes seemingly breathe with Schumann's distinctive visual style of dance, expressionism, dark humor and low-culture simplicity.
www.newyorktheatreguide.com /news/nov06/breadandpuppet22nov06.htm   (375 words)

  
 Bread and Puppet Theater at Edison Dec. 1-6   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bread and Puppet Theater at Edison Dec. 1-6
Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1962 by Peter Schumann, a German-born sculptor.
Bread and Puppet Theater tours extensively and has appeared in North Africa, Venezuela, Australia, Italy, France, Poland, Yugoslavia and elsewhere.
record.wustl.edu /archive/1997/11-20-97/9718.html   (254 words)

  
 The Seattle Times: Theater & arts: Visiting troupe portrays activist's '03 death in Gaza
And though an actress recites Corrie's impassioned concerns, as expressed in e-mails written to her parents, "Daughter Courage" views her primarily as a symbolic heroine, who after her death is resurrected and celebrated by a dancing, flower-tossing throng.
Most compelling are the tableaus that employ vividly expressive, rough-hewn puppets and masks, home-grown music (made with various horns, violins, accordion), and colorful backdrops and ponchos, painted on plain white sheets.
Bread and Puppet's name refers to the troupe's practice of sharing homemade loaves of bread with its audience after every performance.
seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/theaterarts/2002855220_bread10.html   (561 words)

  
 Bread and Puppet Theater comes to NU   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Founded in 1963, Bread and Puppet Theater is named for the coarse, flavorful sourdough bread that was originally given out at its performances, and for the and for the grave, evocative that were the theatre's main performers.
Schumann cites some aspects of puppet theatre which give it life, but also cause it to be accepted by the status quo.
It is possible to poke fun at all kinds of targets with a puppet where a live performer might be less accepted.
www.northeastern.edu /newpr/4-04/breadandpuppet.shtml   (521 words)

  
 Bread - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
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Bread and Puppet Theater, American theatre company that was part of the radical theatre movement of the 1960s.
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 Bread & Puppet Theater to perform with UGA theater students
The Bread and Puppet Theater, founded by Peter Schumann in 1961, is known for creating performances with larger-than-life puppets that address contemporary issues in imaginative and captivating ways.
“The Bread and Puppet Theater is legendary,” according to David Saltz, head of the department of theatre and film studies.
In 1974, the theater moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
www.uga.edu /news/artman/publish/printer_060323_BreadPuppetTheater.shtml   (748 words)

  
 March 28, 2002 - Give us Bread and Puppets
Theater member Susan Hirschmugl said the Bread and Puppet Theater was founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann, “a German dancer, bread-maker, and sculptor,” and it is one of the oldest self-supporting, non-profit theater companies in the United States.
Bread and Puppet staged peace marches on the Lower East Side of Manhattan during the Vietnam War, toured Europe, spent four years as the theater in residence at Goddard College and eventually settled in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont.
Bread and Puppet often uses volunteers in its performance.
www.ithaca.edu /ithacan/articles/0203/28/accent/2give_us_brea.htm   (640 words)

  
 Bread and Puppet Theatre, 1962-1985   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bread and Puppet has given workshops in sculpture, mime, dance, story-making, puppet building and operation, music and instrument making at Goddard College (1971-1974) and in Glover, in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont where the group has converted an old barn into a museum, displaying hundreds of masks and puppets.
Bread and Puppet is recognized throughout the world and has won distinction at international theater festivals in Italy, Poland and Yugoslavia.
Bread and Puppet is constantly active, performing in local churches, schools and parades.
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 Bread and Puppet Theater
Bread and Puppet, the premiere radical puppetry performers bring their new show, World on Fire, to TSL.
Bread and Puppet Theater is also holding a special youth workshop: Flatsos.
In 1970 Bread and Puppet moved to Vermont as theater-in-residence at Goddard College, combining puppetry with gardening and bread baking in a serious way, learning to live in the countryside and letting itself be influenced by the experience.
www.timeandspace.org /tsl/calendar/0503/bread.htm   (218 words)

  
 'Solomon Grundy' an unusual puppet show - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
Bread and Puppet Theater's puppets are made from brown paper and cornstarch
Leave it to Vermont puppeteers Bread and Puppet Theater to stage a silly version of Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Opera." A weighty commentary on social castes is a common sight in the legendary company's family shows.
Bread and Puppet Theater has sharpened its performances into subtle essays, often without dialogue.
www.pittsburghlive.com /x/pittsburghtrib/s_62353.html   (514 words)

  
 The Bread & Puppet Theater Museum Celebrating 30 Years
In 1970, the Theater moved to Vermont as theater-in-residence at Goddard College, letting itself be influenced by living in the countryside.
Four years later the Theater moved to a farm in Glover in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont, where a 100-year-old hay barn was transformed into a museum for veteran puppets.
Bread and Puppet Theater does massive spectacles in the U.S., Europe and Latin America.
www.jacneed.com /Archives/051605Bread.htm   (459 words)

  
 Green Valley Media : Bread and Puppet - Films
ates of Hell is a magnificent virtuoso performance by the Bread and Puppet Theater troupe on the grassy amphitheater and hills of their farm in Glover, Vermont.
Images from the Bread and Puppet Pageant of 1993 are interwoven with comments by Peter Schumann, director, who suggests that the population in this city represents the plight of modern man. He says, "The god Terminator is terminating us.
Comments with Bread and Puppet founder Peter Schumann are intertwined with singularly beautiful images of the "Men with Teeth" learning to march and fly in order to dominate moving sheaves of wheat.
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 Bread and Puppet Theater   (Site not responding. Last check: )
To live in America and never see the Bread and Puppet Theater perform is like living in Egypt and never seeing the pyramids.
Bread and Puppet performs on urgent social, political, and environmental issues.
The topic for this year's performance is "The Circus of the Possibilitarians." The Circus features the twelve-tone Possibilitarian Jazz Ensemble, the politically correct Homeland Security Brass Band, the outrageous Brother-Can-You-Spare-A-Dime Duet, the Rotten-Idea Theatre Co., plus the entire political and economic leadership of the U.S. and its electorate.
www.smcm.edu /drama/season/breadandpuppet.htm   (227 words)

  
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Bread and Puppet Theater is coming to Bellows Falls, Vermont May 12-22, bread and puppet.Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical.
Bread and Puppet's three-day summer performances are history, bread and puppet.
Bread andPuppets was founded based on the idea that art is as essential as bread.
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 Bread and Puppet Theaters The Correct Moment Right On Target For November 1320
Bread and Puppet Theater presents The National Circus and Passion of the Correct Moment.
Bread and Puppet Theater is targeting Cambridge at the perfectly correct moment.
Bread and Puppet Theater's residency in Cambridge includes two puppet shows (one geared towards adults and one family-friendly) and the Correct Moment political art symposium.
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 Bread and Puppet Theater company presents show at Hulman Center full... - Topix   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Bread and Puppet Theater company presents show at Hulman Center full...
Justin Lander has a job where he can be a puppeteer, a farmer and a cheap artist while conveying messages that often boggle minds.
Bread and Puppet Theater company presents show at Hulman Cent...
www.topix.net /city/terre-haute-in/2007/04/bread-and-puppet-theater-company-presents-show-at-hulman-center-full   (229 words)

  
 Bread and Puppet Theater   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Theater for the New City hosts the Bread and Puppet Company for its annual New York City residency.
Both shows will be performed by the Bread and Puppet Company and a large number of local volunteers, who will also be part of the Brass and String Bands and the Choral Singers and Screamers.
They are the Bread and Puppet Theater, and well, two out of three ain't bad.
www.nytheatre.com /nytheatre/brea4482.htm   (681 words)

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