The Combustible Cabaret is a Montpelier-based variety entertainment platform that speaks to the incendiary nature of the current political, environmental, and cultural situations.

The Combustible Cabaret began at the Puppetropolis Chicago Puppetry Festival in the year 2000 and relaunched at the Alternative Media Conference at Goddard College in 2014. Inspired by the traditions of the Dadaists, Neo-Futurists, Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Bread & Puppet, Pina Bausch, Bertolt Brecht, Punch & Judy, drag, vaudeville and burlesque, the Combustible Cabaret deploys marginalized theater forms to speak out against the marginalization of freedom as dictated by the technocratic oligarchs infesting our democracy.