The Company

Great Small Works

Great Small Works was founded in 1995 by a collective of six artists, all veterans of Bread and Puppet Theater, to create theater of high artistic quality and to keep theater at the heart of social life. The company draws on puppet, avant-garde and popular theater traditions to tell contemporary stories. We perform in theaters, schools, parks, libraries, museums, prisons, street corners and other public spaces, producing work on many scales, from gigantic outdoor spectacles with scores of volunteers to miniature shows in living rooms. In curated festivals and decades-running Spaghetti Dinners, we collaborate with artists from varied traditions, provide performance opportunities for artists in diverse genres, and engage young artists in the process of finding their own voices. In community-based pageants and parades, we work with students, activists and artists to address issues of concern to them. On any scale Great Small Works productions seek to renew, cultivate and strengthen the spirits of their audiences, believing in theater as a model for participating in democracy.