The Hope Principle Show
A show created by the Bread & Puppet Theater in 2024
Directed by Peter Schumann

“With mother dirt prologue, citizen despair gymnastics, massmurder victim’s traditional dance of death celebration, absentee humanity dance. Featuring a flock of disaster ravens and hope principle caribou and exorcism rites for the genociders.”
Photos
Taken by B&P in Greensboro, VT on March 29, 2024.












Photos not otherwise marked were taken by Bread & Puppet and require no photographer credit.
Performance History
This show was performed as part of the company’s Spring 2024 tour of the Northeast and Eastern Seaboard states.
- Friday, March 29, 2024 – Greensboro, VT: The Highland Center for the Arts
- Saturday, March 30, 2024 – Barre, VT: The Old Socialist Labor Hall
- Sunday, March 31, 2024 – Rutland, VT: Paramount Theatre
- Tuesday, April 2, 2024 – Albany, NY: Westminster Presbyterian Church
- Wednesday, April 3, 2024 – Hudson, NY: Time & Space Limited
- Thursday, April 4, 2024 – Shelburne Falls, MA: Memorial Hall
- Friday, April 5, 2024 – Poughkeepsie, NY: Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
- Saturday, April 6, 2024 – Milton, PA: Milton Arts Academy
- Sunday, April 7, 2024 – Baltimore, MD: 2640 Space
- Tuesday, April 9, 2024 – Washington, DC: St. Stephen’s Church
- Wednesday, April 10 & Thursday, April 11, 2024 – New York City: Judson Memorial Church
- Friday, April 12 & Saturday, April 13, 2024 – Philadelphia, PA: First Unitarian Church
- Sunday, April 14, 2024: Lancaster, PA: West Art
- Tuesday, April 16, 2024: Ithaca, NY: Community School of Music & Art
- Wednesday, April 17, 2024: Vassar, NY: Vassar College’s Martel Theater
- Thursday, April 18, 2024 – Somerville, MA: The Center for the Arts at the Armory
- Friday, April 19, 2024 – Amherst, MA: UMass Amherst’s Bartlett Hall
- Saturday, April 20, 2024 – Portland, ME: Mayo Street Arts
- Sunday, April 21, 2024 – Worcester, MA: Firehouse
Video
Taken at Barre’s Socialist Labor Hall in Barre, VT by Jerome Lipani on March 30, 2024.
