We knew how to protest, to “fuck the system,” but not what to do! In the earlier issue plays, it was easy. It always is when you’re just reacting or protesting; especially for the children of a declining empire where images and analyses of decadence, fear, and horror are easy to come by. But when you have to be constructive, build, be positive, have a vision, an answer — that’s hard. From where we sit, stuck in our times, it’s difficult to see the light — of how we might live, of joy, of the possibilities within us.
Michael Brown of The Pageant Players, Summer 1971