Bread and Puppet Theater to Perform at St. Stephen's Church April 19

Vermont's legendary Bread and Puppet Theater brings its amazing show to St. Stephen's Church regularly. Their next performance takes place on Tuesday, April 19, at 8pm.

The photos on this page are from Bread and Puppet's recent performances at St. Stephen's.

Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest activist street theater companies in the country.

The show will include an opportunity to savor Bread and Puppet’s famous sourdough rye bread, laden with garlic aioli, and guests will enjoy the opportunity to purchase the company’s “cheap art.”

The Bread & Puppet Theater is one of the oldest non-profit, self-supporting theater companies in the U.S. The theater has been enacting its radical utopian vision in cardboard and cloth for over forty years, from the spectacle of its larger-than-life puppets at Vietnam War protests in New York City, to the pageantry of its annual event, Our Domestic Resurrection Circus, in Glover, Vermont, which ran for over 25 years. The Domestic Resurrection regularly attracted audiences in the tens of thousands up to the late 1990’s.

Author and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu has praised “the genius of Peter Schumann, the prodigious puppet-God,” writing that “the Bread & Puppet Theater has been so long a part of America’s conscious struggle for our better selves, that it has become, paradoxically, a fixture of our subconscious.”

The company has won distinction at international theater festivals in Italy, Poland, France, Venezuela, and South Korea. Awards include the Erasmus Prize of Amsterdam, two off-Broadway Obie Awards, the Puppeteers of America President’s Award, a Guggenheim Award, the Vermont Governor’s Award, and numerous trophies from local small-town parades.