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It grew from the weekly puppet shows given  in the early 1960s in a loft in New York’s Lower East  Side, by the recent emigrants from Germany Peter  Schumann and his wife Elka. Born in Silesia in 1934,  Shumann became a refugee in Schleswig-Holstein with  his family, where their life involved making sourdough  rye bread baked in a communal bakery. As a child  Schumann and his brothers and sisters also created  puppet shows for any occasion.\r\n\r\nOriginally called the Moosach Puppet Theatre and  People Puppet Theatre, the Schumanns took their show  on the road in a trailer converted as a mobile puppet  theatre, staging impromptu performances in New  England. Back in New York City in 1963 the Schumanns  converted the Delancey Street loft into a theatre and  puppet museum where Bread and Puppet Theatre  gained its name, referencing Schumann’s custom of  sharing with his audience members sourdough bread  baked by him. The company’s early work in New York  City ranged from children’s puppet shows to the large- scale outdoor pageants and street shows of 1964,1965  and 1966 in the poorest areas of the city addressing  urban, political and social issues, and protesting about  the war in Vietnam, using massive moving sculptures or  twenty-foot tall puppets. Their 1968 anti-Vietnam war  show Fire led to performances abroad, at a festival in  France in 1968, and in June 1969 at London’s Royal  Court Theatre.\r\n\r\nIn 1970 the Schumanns moved to Plainfield, Vermont, where Goddard College offered them a theatre residency. They started performing in a field at Cate  Farm on the Goddard campus where their first summer show <i>Our Domestic Resurrection Circus</i> : ‘like a  history of America, ending in Vietnam’ - embraced  carnival and circus, and featured the enormous puppets  that characterised their work.\n\nIn 1975 they moved to  Glover, Vermont, where the landscape provided them  with a natural amphitheatre in an old gravel pit allowing  them to perform large scale outdoor productions without  amplification. Their vast and moving spectacles resulted in huge  crowds gathering annually, but after 1998 the Circus was  succeeded by a summer programme and touring  productions addressing issues of the day, still featuring  their astonishing and moving sculptural creations.\r\n\nThis poster probably advertises the last summer circus and fair before the company moved from Plainfield to Glover.\r\n","physicalDescription":"Poster for the annual <i>Domestic Resurrection Fair and Circus,</i> performed by the Bread and Puppet Theatre Company, Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont, USA, 1974. The poster is a screen print in black and grey ink on white paper, featuring black and white typography. Its illustration shows a house with a smoking chimney in a boat floating on water. 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