That era laid the foundation for something that wasn't finished, a sort of universal acceptance and universal peace. It's the story of a generation, and I think that attitude of 'Make love, not war' is on the rise again. Berger is his comrade, and Claude wishes he could give himself up like Berger does to the hippie protest movement, but he just can't quite let himself go. Claude is a semioutsider he comes from a different background than the rest of the hippies.
Claude, the white-collar kid, gets drafted and has to deal with it.
Zach Pettichord (Tribe Member): 'The story is sort of a personalized version of the generic hippie tale. So we asked some students at Austin Community College, which is producing this genre-defining piece, if it really is easy to be hard in the Age of Aquarius. And not just any war, but like the one we fought in Southeast Asia, lo these many years ago, a war widely protested as unjustified, unnecessary, and imperialistic � which gives this 35-year-old work a new immediacy. Now, just like in the Sixties, we're actually at war.
Yet another production of the American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, you ask? Haven't we been there, done that? Yup, but this time it's different.