Bread and Puppet Theater Presents: The Obligation to Live
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April 05, 2025 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm ET
65 Bartlett Hall UMass Amherst. Free and Open to all.
Bread and Puppet is a world-renowned anti-capitalist theater company that has performed with their signature puppets for 61 years. It is one of the oldest street and protest theater companies in the world. The troupe will perform: The Obligation to Live.
In The Obligation to Live, director Peter Schumann reminds us that, “The obligation to be alive and act against the actors of death is just one of humanity’s many obligations. We also have the obligation to courage and the obligation to plant garlic in the rubble of the empire. Possibilitarians know this and bring giants, dragons, horses, sheep, butterflies, and the exact dance of death required for this exact moment.”
After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.
Bread and Puppet is a world-renowned anti-capitalist theater company that has performed with their signature puppets for 61 years. It is one of the oldest street and protest theater companies in the world. The troupe will perform: The Obligation to Live.
In The Obligation to Live, director Peter Schumann reminds us that, “The obligation to be alive and act against the actors of death is just one of humanity’s many obligations. We also have the obligation to courage and the obligation to plant garlic in the rubble of the empire. Possibilitarians know this and bring giants, dragons, horses, sheep, butterflies, and the exact dance of death required for this exact moment.”
After the show Bread & Puppet will serve its famous sourdough rye bread with aioli, and Bread & Puppet’s “Cheap Art” – books, posters, postcards, pamphlets and banners from the Bread & Puppet Press – will be for sale.