Records of the Bread and Puppet Theater, 1962-1976 (inclusive).

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Records of the Bread and Puppet Theater, 1962-1976 (inclusive).

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Contains business correspondence of George Ashley, Peter Schumann and others pertaining to the management and productions of the Bread and Puppet Theater. Also includes miscellaneous manuscripts and legal contracts relating to various productions, programs, brochures and reviews.

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Sherman, Margo.

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Ashley, George.

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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...

Schumann, Peter, 1934-

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Schumann, Elka

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