Marina Christodoulidou and Meghana Karnik discuss Bread and Puppet's performance ephemera from "The Hope Principle Show: Citizen's Shame and Hope in a time of Genocide" (2024).

Bread and Puppet Theater is an internationally celebrated company that champions a visually rich, street-theater brand of performance art filled with music, dance and slapstick. Believing that theater is a basic necessity like bread, the company frequently brings its work to the streets for those who may not otherwise go to the theater. Its shows are political and spectacular, with puppets often on stilts, wearing huge masks with expressive faces, singing, dancing and playing music. Bread and Puppet is constantly active, performing at its farm in Glover, VT, and in local churches, schools and parades. It regularly tours Europe, Canada, and the United States and has recently visited El Salvador, Haiti, Russia, and Korea. Founded in 1963 by Peter Schumann on New York City’s Lower East Side, the theater has been based in the North East Kingdom of Vermont since the early 1970s and is one of the oldest, nonprofit, self-supporting theatrical companies in the United States.

Bread and Puppet Theater | Marina Christodoulidou & Meghana Karnik

A traveling curatorial project asking: Can friendship create structural change? How do we find, remember, and share in the struggles of ancestors? 


2023 — Amsterdam
2024 — New York

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