{"product_id":"bread-and-puppet-theater-bread-and-puppet-newspaper-nos-2-4-5","title":"Bread and Puppet Theater. Bread and Puppet Newspaper Nos 2, 4, 5.","description":"\u003ch3 style=\"font-variant: small-caps\"\u003e32 Little Pages of News\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBread and Puppet Theater.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bread and Puppet Newspaper Nos 2, 4, 5. \u003ci\u003eNew York: Bread and Puppet Press.\u003c\/i\u003e December 1966 – January 1967.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree volumes, small 8vo. Mimeographed wrappers and text, wire stitched as issued, printed on blue, cream and pink paper; all vols pp. 32, with black and white illustrations to each page; very slight toning to edges of all volumes, otherwise sharp and bright; Fine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA rare gathering of three early mimeographed issues of the Bread and Puppet Newspaper, produced by the New York countercultural theatre group, Bread and Puppet, in protest against the Vietnam War.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Bread and Puppet Theatre was founded in New York by Peter Schumann in 1963. Their early productions addressed local concerns in the Lower East Side, such as rent rates and rats. By the mid-1960s, as American involvement in Vietnam escalated, their attention turned towards anti-war activism. They arranged street pageants, shows, and protests, but they also produced printed materials, such as these pamphlets, which criticised US involvement in Vietnam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewspaper workshops took place once a week, ‘so that the news could be understood’. Each thirty-two-page issue sought to distil ‘all the news that’s fit to print’, ‘all the good news’, and ‘almost all the bad news’, guided by the principle that ‘everything that can be said on 32 little pages has to be said on 32 little pages’ (This is the Bread and Puppet Museum, c. 1968). These early newspapers are concerned with the Vietnam War. They criticise Henry Cabot Lodge, the bombing of Vietnam, and the destruction of Bến Súc.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOCLC finds twelve copies, all of which in the US; not on Library Hub.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2126183\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Henry Sotheran Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64399999500665,"sku":"2126183","price":975.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2126183.jpg?v=1787935792","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/bread-and-puppet-theater-bread-and-puppet-newspaper-nos-2-4-5","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}