Skip Schiel photographs of Bread and Puppet Theater

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Skip Schiel photographs of Bread and Puppet Theater

1984 August

eng, Latn

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SNAC Resource ID: 11646048

Houghton Library

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Bread and Puppet Theater

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West German immigrant Peter Schumann (1934-) founded the Bread and Puppet Theater in New York in 1961. Influenced by the peace movement in New York, Schumann wrote radical anti-war plays for his puppet theater. He incorporated religion and morality into the central anti-war theme of the plays. The Bread and Puppet Theater offered bread, baked by the group, to the audience at the beginning of every performance. Schumann declared that theater was as basic to life as bread, hence the nam...

Schiel, Skip

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Skip Schiel is a photographer based in Cambridge, Massachusetts....