In the winter of 2024, Bread and Puppet performed Gray Lady Cantata #9 (Vigil for Gaza) to a capacity crowd at Goodyear Arts. Local experimental theater artist and critic Matt Cosper wrote a response essay that was published in QC Nerve. “Bread and Puppet Theater and the Dystopian Dilemma” discusses agitprop, naive aesthetic strategies, and politically engaged art.

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