Poster - "Pie for Peacocks" Play - 2
Poster, Theater - "Pie for Peacocks" Play - 2
1922
Paper
22 in. H
X
14 in. W
Large red poster advertising the outdoor play "Pie for Peacocks" to be given in the garden of Mrs. Geo. Wilcox on Saturday, August 26, 1923 at 4 P.M. D.S.T. with a rain date of Monday, August 28, 1923. Admission cost $1.00, with tickets sold at the gate. Near the center of the poster is an illustration of a peacock on a pedestral eating a pie held by a baker. All illustration and writing are done by hand.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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