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Kapadia sees “All We Imagine as Light” as a political statement, too, though it avoids being didactic.

Like with "Figaro," the subject matter is not explicit, but even though composers nowadays do not face the same censorial challenges as Mozart and Verdi, Lucero deems it artistically wise not to get too didactic anyway.

“Once you get didactic, that’s it. You’ve lost them.”

"I guess what the show is saying, and we're never didactic about this stuff, is that Pierpoint and the wider capitalist enterprise turbocharge some of their worst instincts," says Kay.

In 2016, when the state’s TK program was last evaluated, researchers found that teachers spent 59% of their classroom time on “didactic instruction,” which means imparting information and instructions to students rather than encouraging independent thinking and play.