An avant-garde pageant commandeered a 2,100-seat opera house in 1969.

Evidence

For two magical nights, Slave Ship shared BAM with another, quite different theatrical coup. One Thursday and the following Saturday, the large 2,100-seat theater was given over to Robert Wilson’s three-hour-plus three-act “dance-theater play,” The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1509

Categorization

• XREF: Wilson’s takeover of BAM fits the chapter’s pattern of avant-garde appropriating high-prestige urban infrastructure.