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George Acheson was a rebel with a cause. At age 16 he was kicked out of the house by his father because he wouldn’t cut his hair—it was a sign of things to come. He lived the ’60s counterculture, embraced the ’70s Punk movement, and somehow scraped through the years of reaction that followed. Now, together with collaborator Nadia Ross, he’s going to tell you his story. Like many boomers, Acheson looked at his parents’ values and found them wanting; the ’50s were a bubble of conformity that he helped burst. What followed, as we know, were some big victories and some crushing defeats. This isn’t a hopeless story, although it’s a sad one. It’s about things worth fighting for, and things worth fighting against. 7 Important Things from Quebec’s STO Union is a raw, vital performance.
A fine theatre jewel, no more and no less than a biography put to stage. George Acheson, rebel, hippy, anti-Vietnam activist, has lived through all the stops between Flower Power and the underground; as he stands onstage with Nadia Ross, he is the epitome of a wonderfully old-fashioned, principled man, ever so faithful to the generation from 1968. With interviews, self-reflections and happenings the two Davids show that they are always more intelligent, more humorous and more talented than all Goliaths of this world. —Frankfurter Rundschau
