YUPPIES AT PLAY
It is 1987: in the eleven years since these six ex-hippies last gathered
together, all but Frank have rejoined the mainstream culture. Mary's birthing center is
respected and popular. Newly expanded, Paul's oak-furniture factory is booming. Capo has
graduated from making to teaching music. Helen has been practicing chiropractic for
several years. And Barbara, long divorced from Frank, has finished her protracted climb
up the academic ladder, emerging at the top as an attorney-at-law.
When Capo and Helen plan to bring their son, Kevin, on vacation to see
Paul, Mary, and their children, Elizabeth and Joshua, Frank parlays the visit into a
group reunion to celebrate the Harmonic Convergence, two days of focal importance in Mayan
and Zapotec Native American prophecy. To the surprise of the other five, who concur that
she probably left them all behind when she split from Frank, Barbara shows up, completing
the muster.
Where it is clear, on the one hand, that Frank has serious concerns on
his mind for the group to consider and to address, it is equally uncertain, on the other
hand, what Barbara is up to or even if she has some hidden agenda. But, then, curiously
enough, it becomes evident that each one of them has unfinished, personal business to deal
with, some of it going all the way back to their halcyon days together in the Berkeley
commune.
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