Philadelphia was the birthplace of many progressive ideas that didn't turn out as planned. A prime example is Eastern State Penitentiary. Considered a revolutionary facility when it was first erected, the prison's groundbreaking isolation design led many of the inmates to go insane. Another of the city's failed attempts to create a utopian paradise is the subject of New Paradise Laboratories' Planetary Enzyme Blues, which is currently having its world premiere at the Philadelphia Live Arts Festival. The second installment in NPL's trilogy exploring Philadelphia's utopian experiment, Enzyme focuses on a group of hippies in Philly. As "offspring of the most affluent generation in the history of the world," the idealistic commune of friends plans to protest the Vietnam War and the plight of the poor by levitating the Liberty Bell. Their dream goes unrealized, but director Whit MacLaughlin's production doesn't focus on the group's failure. Similar to the trilogy's first installment Rrose Selavy Takes a Lover in Philadelphia, in Enzyme time is portrayed as fluid. The hippies may reside in the late 1960s, but their aspirations to create a better world in Philadelphia are seen as part of the city's past, present and future. Enzyme lacks the electrifying power of the near-perfect Selavy, but it's an impressive effort nonetheless. Staged under the vaulted ceilings and stained glass windows of the spectacular Cathedral in West Philly, Enzyme is a cosmic exploration of possibilities. The hippies' desire to make paradise an everyday matter isn't achieved, but their dreams remain with us.