Living up to its name, the company serves homebaked sourdough bread at its performances. The troupe has visited Connecticut dozens of times in its 60 years of existence, including on the opening day of the very first International Festival of Arts & Ideas in New Haven. The performances were done in parks associated with gallery spaces in the city, but not on public streets.”īread and Puppet performed its adaptation of Aeschylus’ Greek tragedy “The Persians” on the UConn campus last year. He said a puppet character that had originally been called “The Dictator” was renamed to something less overt.ĭoing political theater about authoritarianism in present-day Turkey seems fraught, but Bell said the troupe “benefitted from working under the auspices of the biennale. The Turkish presentation of “The Demons of Society” involved 55 local volunteers from Istanbul, three separate locations, a parade, a 40-minute show/pageant and a performance by Turkish shadow puppet master Cengiz Ozek.
Ballard puppetry museum series#
The talk is the first in the latest “Spring Puppet Forum” series at the puppetry museum.īread and Puppet specializes in original political theater pieces, often performed outdoors with giant puppets and grand pageantry. at the Ballard Institute Theater on the UConn campus in Storrs. John Bell, director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut, traveled to Turkey in September to perform “The Demons of Society” with the world-renowned Vermont-based Bread and Puppet Theater at the 2022 Instanbul Biennial art exhibition.īell also organized two exhibits at the biennial: “Annals of Object Performance: Puppetry, Street Performance, and Activism” and a display of the Bread and Puppet founder “Peter Schumann’s Bedsheet Paintings.” He’s also worked with theater and arts organizations in the Turkish city of Diyarbakir.īell will talk about his experience in Turkey on Wednesday at 7 p.m.
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