Sometimes you see a piece of theater and it completely scrambles your brain.

I remember I was at one of the first performances of hair.

Let's Phillips and Bartow, the renowned psychologist, seeing hair scrambled his brain because the

performance started walking on the seats over your head and walking down the aisles.

And that I had never experienced that before.

It was really troubling, exhilarating, confusing.

Because again, hair was going to confuse you.

They're going to sing songs about masturbation and black girls having sex with white guys,

white guys having sex with...

So essentially, before the play began, what they did is set up to say, this is going

to shock you.

This is going to be off your usual radar.

So don't come expecting traditional theater.

This is something new.

And I still remember that was like 40 years ago.

Again, that was Philip Zimbardo.

Is that name Ring of Bell?

If you ever took Psychology 101 in college, think back to that.

You remember reading about the Stanford Prison Experiment?

That was Zimbardo's experiment back in 1971, in which some student volunteers played

the role of prisoners and others acted as guards.

Things got ugly, fast.

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