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a play based on the events of the 1956 Dartmouth Workshop (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dartmouth_workshop) with a chorus of screaming rocks
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@ingrid Ray Solomonoff’s scanned notes are online!
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@ingrid http://raysolomonoff.com/dartmouth/
(For the avoidance of doubt: I’m not going to say Solomonoff was some kind of humanist saint, but I think a case could be made that his was one of the relatively less chicken-fried of the minds present for That Fateful Summer.)
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@ingrid (I was thinking about this in a similar but less musical-theatreuh–based context and did some Wikipedia-level reading on what was going on in 1956 and honestly it’s kind of amazing what a nexus of American everything the previous 18 months had been.)