Bread and Puppet Theater collection, 1967-1988.

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Bread and Puppet Theater collection, 1967-1988.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45477196

The collection includes illustrated story scripts, handbills, and performance programs, illustrated calendars and other related ephemera and publications.

.5 linear ft.

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7554136

University of Connecticut, Homer Babbidge 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...