Artscope Presents: Bread and Puppet Theater

Tickets: Open lawn seating, with a suggested donation of $10-$15. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds!

Location: At the Artscope Cottage, nestled at the corner or Tower Grove Avenue and Aresenal Street, right inside of Tower Grove Park. Bread and Puppet will be performing in our yard, with the audience in the ajoining field to the west of Artscope

Bread and Puppet is one of the oldest, nonprofit, political theatre companies in the country.

Who is Bread and Puppet? ?

“We want you to understand that theater is not yet an established form, not the place of commerce you think it is, where you pay to get something. Theater is different. It is more like bread, more like a necessity. Theater is a form of religion. It preaches sermons and builds a self-sufficient ritual. Puppet theater is the theater of all means. Puppets and masks should be played in the street. They are louder than the traffic. They don’t teach problems, but they scream and dance and display life in its clearest terms. Puppet theater is of action rather than dialogue. The action is reduced to the simplest dance-like and specialized gestures. A puppet may be a hand only, or it may be a complicated body of many heads, hands, rods and fabric."

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