Скачать или смотреть Virtual Gallery Talk with Peter Schumann, of Bread and Puppet Theatre

Bread and Puppet is here at VSC, in our two main gallery spaces, November through January. The installations feature much of Peter Schumann’s new work! A Virtual Talk/Tour was held online over zoom on November 19th, 2020.

The name Bread and Puppet is derived from the theater’s practice of sharing its sourdough rye with the audience, and from it’s central principle that art is as basic as bread. The Bread and Puppet Theater participates in parades and is active at many statehouse marches in Montpelier. Peter Schumann, Bread and Puppet’s director, was born in 1934 in Silesia. Schumann was a sculptor and dancer in Germany before moving to the United States in 1961. In 1963 he founded Bread and Puppet Theater and in 1970 moved to Vermont, eventually settling in the Northeast Kingdom in Glover where the company still performs outdoor circuses and pageants all summer long.