The theater audience physically mixed rival factions of 1960s New York

Evidence

“There were speed-freak saints doing a jig of liberation in the balcony, and West Side liberalatti crouched in the pews below,” Richard Goldstein wrote in the Voice, under the headline ARTAUD ON SECOND AVENUE. “There were Black Panthers stalking Village highrisers in the aisles, their every step an indelible mince of cool. There were earth mothers with moon children in their arms.” And there were a few out-and-out crazies. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1318