I've read in Monday's Indy about the new production of Hair@Gate Theatre:
Hair has had a radical rethink in Daniel Kramer's knockout revival of the "American tribal love-rock musical".
Instead of Vietnam war, there's Iraq and the horrors of the occupation. Instead of LBJ, there's Dubya."
Gives it a four star rating.
I'm curious. Very curious indeed. I love the original, the film actually. I was too young to be able to have the opportunity to see it live, add to that I was raised in behind-the-iron-curtain Bulgaria, you can see the probability dive.
Nevertheless, the plight of the hippies, not so strangely enough, stroke a chord with my generation back in BG. It inspired our freedom, not only the make love not war freedom, but a far more deep understanding and acute feeling of freedom - to move, to love, to do what you want to do. You could hear "Let the sun shine" at assorted venues and occasions, from the spontaneous green demos against chlorine pollution in Rousse in the mid-late 80s, to summer work camps, school productions featuring "solidarity" against the victims of imperialism, the Varna lighthouse July[a], to name a few.
