Bruno Pélassy Has stock in Germany • Plus an oral history

• Plus an oral history of the 60+ year-old radical theater Bread and Puppet

at the same time as it requires someone or something—line break or literal incision—to break you in

In another contribution

and the book’s cover star

Bruno Pélassy Has stock in Germany • Plus an oral historyIn 1987, while finishing his training as a tailor, Bruno Plassy was living in a studio apartment in Paris, amidst dark clutter and a cascade of needles, lace and fur that his mother used to bring him from Nice. On his cathode ray television, his VHS tapes played on repeat: The Exorcist (1973), Female Trouble (1974), and The Law of the Strongest (1975). Sometimes he would turn the volume down to play his vinyl records along with the images: Madame