The article reflects the origin, evolution, the ways of expression which are characteristic for the Bread and Puppet Company, created and directed by Peter Schumann. In the 60’s, the Bread and Puppet Company, an exponent of the American avant-garde, becomes a formation of a political theatre, revolutionary. The Bread and Puppet Company was created and organized based on specific relationship between the dramatic text, the constituent elements of the performance, theatrical space and the viewer. Several types of codes, conventions, semiotic systems, structural elements, features that are specifying images are reflected. Improvised performances, street theatre, parades, political performances and antimilitary will be born. Mannequins, masks and elements of pantomime are used in performances. Schumann starts to build mannequins that have 3-4 m height, invents cranky, a sort of movie on paper, used in more successive performances, uses long legs, that are very similar with those from the parades and sacred medieval representations, with his marching methods, but also with the ritualistic ones. The schumannian theatrical performance was one of a kind, unrepeatable. The Bread and Puppet representations will always be total performances, poor, violent, they will use simple technical methods.