Sampling Shakespeare and peppering Christian allusions throughout,Hair homes in on Manhattan’s East Village (and managed to enact so in real time with its 1967 premiere at the Public Theater that then transferred to Broadway the following year). The work shares the convergent stories of a few hapless hippies who, in the words of the name-checked Timothy Leary, or turn on,tune in, and drop out by espousing free care for, and celebrating mind-altering substances,and generally getting majorly down on The Man.
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