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It’s New Year’s Eve, 1969, in New York City. On the Lower East Side, people live in tiny walkups in century-old tenement buildings. Low rents have drawn waves of artists, musicians, and working-class families trying to make ends meet. Neighborhood life spills directly onto the crowded sidewalks, fire escapes, and stoops, amidst a vibrant mix of Puerto Rican bodegas, Jewish bakeries, and Chinese laundries. Young artists, Milk and Ollie, too, are just trying to make it.

Massive cultural change is in the wind. A lost generation calls for revolution. Fat cats are making money off the war machine and thousands of kids have been cannon fodder in an unwinnable war. Violence threatens the home front as well, as different groups try to break the unjust systems that are rigged against them. How do you make art in such repressive times?

Join us as Milk and Ollie, surrounded by a colorful cast of dissidents, thieves, streetwalkers, addicts, and liars, try to succeed in a city that takes more than it gives. Original music, ancient puppetry, and Ochre House spectacle ensue. Explore with us how artists enlightened in unstable times past. You might sympathize with Ollie, who tells the stars, “I have a longing for something that may not exist.”

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