Iconic traveling troupe Bread and Puppet Theater mounts three back-to-back Vermont performances of its spring offering, The Obligation to Live, before taking the Eastern Seaboard by storm. Per the group’s decades-long legacy, the production features up-to-the-minute political commentary, larger-than-life papier-mâché figures and stage spectacle. Through moments both meditative and astonishing, director Peter Schumann reminds viewers of their "obligation to plant garlic in the rubble of the empire." Also in keeping with tradition, the artists serve up sourdough rye and aioli after every show, fulfilling the eponymous promise of bread. Bellies full, brains full — now go forth and plant that garlic.
