Bread and Puppet Theater
Puppets on display in the Bread & Puppet Museum | |
| Formation | 1962–1963 |
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| Type | Theatre group |
| Purpose | Political puppetry |
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Artistic director(s) | Peter Schumann |
| Website | breadandpuppet |
The Bread and Puppet Theater (often known simply as Bread & Puppet) is a politically radical puppet theater, active since the 1960s, based in Glover, Vermont. The theater was co-founded by Elka and Peter Schumann. Schumann is the artistic director.
The name Bread & Puppet is derived from the theater's practice of sharing its own fresh bread, served for free with aïoli, with the audience of each performance to create community, and from its central principle art should be as basic as bread to life.
The Bread and Puppet Theater participates in parades including Independence Day celebrations, notably in Cabot, Vermont, with many effigies including a satirical Uncle Sam on stilts.