just saw a production of SIX at the ART and it’s interesting how wokeness seems to have pushed American intellectual culture away from, uh, you could call it “nuance” or “sophistication” or you could call it pretension, in favor of accessibility
as a kid I associated the ART with productions of idk, Sophocles, or surrealist plays bordering on conceptual art
even the Diane Paulus revitalization took the form of eg a play that was just a guy reading the entire text of The Great Gatsby aloud for eight hours
whereas SIX would basically work as Schoolhouse Rock, minus the blowjob jokes
(I remember Cornel West releasing a rap album back in 2001; but you got the feeling that even if the denizens of Cambridge would take any chance to criticize Larry Summers they were quietly kinda skeptical of it)