Poster, Bread and Puppet Theater, Glover, 1981

In 1975 they moved to Glover, Vermont, where the landscape provided them with a natural amphitheatre in an old gravel pit allowing them to perform large scale outdoor productions without amplification.

Their vast and moving spectacles resulted in huge crowds gathering annually, but after 1998 the Circus was succeeded by a summer programme and touring productions addressing issues of the day, still featuring their astonishing and moving sculptural creations. Swords and Plowshares was the title of a 'pacifist festival of music, dance and puppetry' that Bread and Puppet Theatre presented on three stages of New York's Theatre for the New City, 162, Second Avenue, on 28th and 29th March 1981, at the end of their current New York season.

A reviewer of the Company's productions, New York Times 3 March 1981, commented:'For almost 20 years, this invaluable, nomadic troupe has been presenting its parables and pageants in theaters and on parade. Bread and Puppet has become an icon of our times.' Poster for a production of Swords and Plowshares, performed by the Bread and Puppet Theatre Company, 1981. Screen print, printed in red ink on white paper, featuring red and white typography, and an illustration of a horse pulling a plough.