In her most fantastic piece of fiction ‘The Playhouse Called Remarkable’, Muriel Spark offers a definition of art. The story recounts the genesis of artistic sensibility on Earth shortly after the Flood when Moon Biglow and five companions arrive from the Moon and establish a theatre to present ‘The Changing Drama of the Moon’. This is a performance which varies its words and music but always narrates the true adventures of a singing, acrobatic Moongirl who sets out to investigate the mysterious singing voice on a Moonmountain. The girl is trapped by the voice which spins her around throughout the night and mocks her in song while she responds with a defiant contrapuntal harmony. During the day, however, the girl is totally incapacitated as a ray from the Sun strikes the mountain and stabs her through the throat. Through the repetition of the daily cycle, she learns that the voice's inspiration is the Sunray and she communicates this knowledge, in song, to the Moonpeople at the foot of the mountain instructing them to take her story, as a drama, to the inhabitants of Earth. The ensuing ‘art mission’ of Moon Biglow and his colleagues locates itself in Hampstead and is at first a huge success, the Moonmen's theatre being hailed by the natives as ‘The Remarkable’. Opposition comes, however, from local cultural leader Johnnie Heath who claims that the visitors are interfering with the ‘native purity’ of Hampstead and that the playhouse cannot be registered with the council as ‘known as the Remarkable’ since ‘remarkable’ is an adjective and not a noun. Through Johnnie's harassment, the people gradually return to the indigenous ‘turn turn ya” chant and one night, in the stupor of this mantra, they sacrifice Moon's girlfriend Dolores. Disheartened, the missionaries, with the exception of Moon, leave Earth. A legacy is left behind however, as Moon explains: