Bread & Puppet Theater with the Grey Lady Cantata #9 & The Possibilitarian Everything Show

"The word 'possibiltarian' is a Marc Estrin translation of Robert Musil’s term 'möglichkeitsmensch' from his novel The Man Without Qualities, about the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The term was invigorated by Margaret Thatcher’s remark on capitalism: 'there is no alternative,' to which we respond: 'there are a thousand alternatives!' Of The Possibilitarian Imperative Everything Show, director Peter Schumann reminds us that, 'at a time when Freedom and Democracy slaughter babies and moms by the dozen every day and don’t even seem to have any understanding of what they are doing to the world or to themselves, we Possibilitarians, operating on the Principle of Hope, put on our boots to kick aside impossibility and declare new possibility in response to this obviously despaired situation.'" At Friends Meeting in Cambridge, November 15, 2026