Hair Play Summary

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Hair reverberated with the group of onlookers at that point since of the guarantee of transformation: what we are significance for & what was the original form. The Naturalism about this play was significance connection with SFSU The Liberation Fronts seems fascinating.
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4. In a short sentence identify the duration and genre of the play. In a second sentence, using terms and ideas from the “timeline” section of Chapter Two, discuss any interesting aspects of the structure of the play. The genre of the play was American tribal hippie counterculture who are in love with rock musical, wanted to get freedom after the WWII. The timeline of the play was late 1960s after war with Vietnam.
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Claude, his great friend Berger, their roommate Sheila and their companions battle to adjust their youthful lives, cherishes, and the sexual transformation with their disobedience against the war and their traditionalist guardians and society. Eventually, Claude must choose whether to stand up to the draft as his companions have done, or to surrender to the weights of his guardians to serve in Vietnam, compromising his radical standards and gambling his …show more content…

The movement of The Age of Aquarius happen very long time ago, but they had goal in their mind which gives us hope ann motivation. The play was based on Pacifism and Environment, Nudity sexual freedom and drugs. The culture crucify how lives were live in era of 1960s, everything was so different people were friendly and open to each other. Within the age of Aquarius, a time of agreement and understanding, sex and drugs are utilized as vehicles to sidestep reality and the foundations. George Berger sets the disposition in a melody around his later expulsion from high

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