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“cheap art and political theater”
The Bread and Puppet Museum is a massive accumulation of the puppets, masks, paintings and graphics of the Bread and Puppet Theater, housed in a 150-year-old barn in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom, 25 miles south of the Canadian border. It is one of the largest collections of some of the biggest puppets and masks in the world. It was created in 1974 when Bread and Puppet Theater moved to this former dairy farm after a residency at Goddard College, and before that close to a decade in New York City. The museum is full to the brim; its population density is an expression not only of the accumulations of time but of the urgencies which inspired the making of so much stuff: the poverty of the poor, the arrogance of the war-mongers, the despair of the victims, and maybe even stronger than that, the glory of this whole god-given world. And naturally, all this will decay in due course.
"So we're going to an old barn in the middle of the woods, in rural Vermont, to see a bunch of puppets from the 1970s?" With a lead in like that, what's not to sound like the start to a horror... Read more
Electric. Eclectic. Puppets. Paper machete. Art. Madness. Posters. Free admission. Scary. Fun. New. Old. Off kilter. Puppets. Purely art. Read more
Bread and Puppet
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