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Bread and Puppet Theater (White Horse Butcher)
Poster ID: CL47250
Category: Theatrical/Stage and Plays
Year: 1970s
Country: American
Approximate Size 44 x 29 inches
Condition: Very Good


This poster is for a show called the White Horse Butcher. We usually performed it on a double bill with Joan of Arc. It's the story of a beautiful white horse that is slaughtered by a group of figures we call the Butchers. They're faceless bureaucrats. At the end of the show a white angel resurrects the horse. The poster shows our director, Peter Schumann, as the Angel on stilts. The pile of white cloth on the floor is the horse before he is resurrected.
The Theater was founded in 1962-1963 in New York City. It was active during the Vietnam War in anti-war protests, primarily in New York. It is often remembered as a central part of the political spectacle of the time, as its enormous puppets (often ten to fifteen feet tall) were a fixture of many demonstrations. In 1970 the Theater moved to Vermont, first to Goddard College in Plainfield, and then to a farm in Glover where it still resides. The farm is home to a cow, several pigs, puppeteers and chickens, as well as indoor and outdoor performance spaces, a printshop, store and large museum showcasing over four decades of the company's work. The Bread & Puppet Theater has received National Endowment for the Arts grants and numerous awards from the Puppeteers of America and other organizations.

Keywords: Puppetry,Stage/Play
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