Patricia Neal Stage
High Time
May 27 - June 25, 2016
In 1963 in a big house in Newton, Massachusetts rented by Dr. Timothy Leary and Dr. Richard Alpert, heads of Harvard’s Center for Personality and Research, guided psychedelic research trips were conducted with the best and the brightest in hopes of unlocking the mystery of LSD and its power to increase human potential. This new play details a 12-hour acid trip with Leary, poet Allen Ginsberg, Englishman Alan Watts, Mary Meyer, JFK’s last mistress, Rosemary Woodruff, a beautiful young dancer and Lisa Bieberman, Leary’s devoted assistant. Set against the day Leary and Alpert are fired from Harvard, effectively ending all serious LSD research, the trip takes a rogue turn in this mind-expanding comedy.