The Living Theatre’s performance climaxed in a communal OM-chanting embrace

Evidence

The performance ended with calls for a “free theater” and “non-violence” as the actors embraced the audience in a great, OM-chanting mass. They gathered “arms around each other rocking, humming one clear note,” McCauslin wrote. And then the amplified, unmistakable nasal voice of Ben Morea filled the auditorium, announcing that “this theater is returned to the Community.” — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1326