ABSTRACT
My mother has been going to the theater, and not because she's my mother. She is straightout working-class, but she and her friends go to plays in search of some kind of fundamental understanding about the texture of life: her life, and life in general. . . . The new acceptance of art [echoing that of] singers and jazz musicians has had an important effect on consciousness, on attitudes toward oneself, and, above all, on that level of aspiration which is necessary for any ideology of change. When you present a horizon, you can show the need for change, and build a model for what change should be.
