Since the 1960s, Bread and Puppet Theater has produced offbeat works infused with social commentary and subversive themes. The Glover-based company’s new show, Diagonal Life: Theory and Praxis, “examines our current precariously diagonal condition — on the verge of collapse, yet always capable of uprising,” according to a press release. With song, dance and the troupe’s signature cardboard and papier-mâché puppets, performers highlight the sometimes tragic and often humorous possibilities of diagonality. Folks who stick around after the show are treated to founder Peter Schumann’s famous sourdough rye bread and may browse the Bread and Puppet Museum and store.
