An Existing Better World

Written shortly before Dennison’s death in 1987, these notes cover much ground: reviews of Bread and Puppet shows in New York, in Europe, and on the theater’s home-base, a farm in Vermont; an analysis of Peter Schumann’s work in the context of Brecht and twentieth-century political theater; a history of Bread & Puppet Theater by a comrade and radical educator; and detailed descriptions of the day-to-day creative fabric of the “existing better world” of Bread and Puppet. Most of all, this book is an intimate memoir of a deep friendship, rooted in a sincere belief in the possibility of real social transformation.