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[Poster]: Michael McClure's The Beard. Directed by Robert Gist. Warner Playhouse

[Poster]: Michael McClure's The Beard. Directed by Robert Gist. Warner Playhouse Unbound - 1968

by (BERMAN, Wallace, Michael McClure)

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[Los Angeles]: Warner Playhouse, 1968. Unbound. Fine. Poster. Photographically illustrated on thin card stock printed in red, black. Approximately 8½" x 14½". A bit skinned on the verso where tape has been removed, else very near fine. Poster for the 1968 Los Angeles premiere of the play, where it had migrated after productions had been shut down in both New York and San Francisco for the simulated oral sex scene in the play. The cast of the L.A. production were arrested 14 nights in a row. In a letter to Stan Brakhage in September 1968, McClure complained, "I'll have to return to L.A. for the opening of the trial of Beard, which starts September 16." The poster was designed by Wallace Berman, publisher of *Semina* and considered by some as the "Father of Assemblage Art," who also provided the photograph of his bare-breasted wife Shirley seen holding a worn pair of boots which graces the poster. Jim Morrison of The Doors attended the L.A. performance and apparently expressed interest in playing the lead in a film version, but alas that contribution to film history was not to be.
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  • Title [Poster]: Michael McClure's The Beard. Directed by Robert Gist. Warner Playhouse
  • Author (BERMAN, Wallace, Michael McClure)
  • Binding Unbound
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Publisher Warner Playhouse, [Los Angeles]
  • Date 1968
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 393128

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