Research Catalog

Title

Bread and Puppet [videorecording] = Du pain et des poupées / a film by Michel Treguer with the collaboration of Jack Lang ; direction and commentary by Michel Treguer.

Publication

1972.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bread and Puppet Theater.
• Schumann, Peter, 1934-
• Treguer, Michel.

Description

1 videocassette (53 min.) : sd., col. NTSC; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Alternative Title

• Birdcatcher in hell
• Du pain et des poupées
• Gray lady cantata #2 & The birdcatcher in hell

Subjects

• Puppets
• Plays
• Puppet theater companies
• Documentaries and factual films and programs
• Puppet plays, American
• Puppet works
• Politics in art
• Bread and Puppet Theater
• Video

Genre/Form

• Documentaries and factual films and programs.
• Plays.
• Puppet works.
• Video.

Note

• Title on cassette label: Gray lady cantata #2 & The birdcatcher in hell.

Language (note)

• Titles in French and English ; narration in French ; some interviews in English.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5056

Title

Bread and Puppet [videorecording] = Du pain et des poupées / a film by Michel Treguer with the collaboration of Jack Lang ; direction and commentary by Michel Treguer.

Imprint

1972.

Summary

Documentary on the Bread and Puppet Theater company, featuring two of its plays, Gray lady cantata #2 (La cantate de la dame grise no. 2) and Birdcatcher in hell (L'apocalypse de l'oiseleur), interspersed with brief interviews with company members (including founder Peter Schumann) and glimpses of the group's bread-making.

Language

Titles in French and English ; narration in French ; some interviews in English.

Added Author

Schumann, Peter, 1934- interviewee.

Treguer, Michel. Director

Treguer, Michel. Commentator

Bread and Puppet Theater.

Added Title

Du pain et des poupées [videorecording]

Gray lady cantata #2 & The birdcatcher in hell [videorecording]

Birdcatcher in hell [videorecording]

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5056