Artscope Presents: Bread and Puppet

Artscope Presents: Bread and Puppet LIVE at Tower Grove Park! Free with a suggested donation of $10-$15. Nobody will be turned away for lack of funds! 

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

For more information, email Sophie Powell at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.