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Welcome to the Circus: Bread + Puppet's 50 Years of Political Theater

"We have two types of puppet shows: good ones and bad ones, but all of them are for good and against evil."
Peter Schumann,
Founder of Bread + Puppet

The Velaslavasay Panorama presents documentary footage to celebrate the 50th anniversary of one of the oldest, nonprofit, self supporting theatrical companies in the country, Bread and Puppet Theater.

Forthright populist sentiments merge with deceptively simplistic, larger than life puppets handmade from everyday materials. Cardboard, cloth, and paint comes alive to not only entertain, but to tell archetypal stories of humanity's most basic challenges. The theater's repertoire has included such performances as Thunderstorm of the Youngest Child, Uprising of the Beast, Birdcatcher in Hell, and Shatterer of Worlds Chapel With Naturalization Services for Applicants Requesting Citizenship in the ShatteredWorld.

Come out for an evening of storytelling and wonder, shop beautiful B+P prints, explore the Velaslavasay's magical gardens, and help keep Bread + Puppet alive for another fifty years!