Pie for Peacocks poster 1
Poster, Theater - "Pie for Peacocks" Play - 1
1922
Paper
22 in. H
X
14 in. W
Large orange poster with a hand drawn peacock on the right side and handwritten text. Advertising the outdoor play "Pie for Peacocks" as given in the garden of Mrs. George Wilcox on Island Avenue in Madison. Tickets were sold at the gate for $1.00. Performance was advertised to take place on Saturday, August 26, 1922 at 4 P.M. D.S.T. with a rain date of Monday, August 28, 1922.Madison was home to the country's earliest summer theater. In 1918, Constance Grenelle Wilcox and Alice B. Keating founded the Woodland Garden Plays. The first performances were held in the woods behind the Wilcox home on Island Avenue, but later moved into an old barn on the property, called the "Playbarn". The plays were popular fundraisers for charitable causes including post WWI relief, the Madison Historical Society and the preservation of the Lee Academy.
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