1968 MacBird Play Committee Theater San Francisco Poster Bill Graham Era

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RARE --- VINTAGE, ORIGINAL 1968 MACBIRD PLAY SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY THEATER POSTER. Rare Poster is in excellent condition as shown in the photos.  Poster has great 60s anti- war graphics   Measures approximately 7.5 inches by 25 inches.  The poster is in very good condition, there are some edge wear, one pinhole on top and one at bottom.  There is some edge wear at the top and bottom and some light marks. Please see pictures for details.
MacBird was a 1967 satire by Barbara Garson that superimposed the transferal of power following the 1968 Kennedy Assassination onto the plot of Shakespeare's MacBeth.   Originally written as s satirical skit to be staged at anti-Vietnam War Demonstrations in the 1960s, MacBird evolved into a full-length play using MacBeth as a means of commenting on the 1960s.  The production, which opened a mere three years after the Kennedy Assassination, was quite controversial. It has been said that pressure from local authorities was applied to theaters in New York who were considering it. The Village Gate was the only theater willing to defy this pressure and mount the play. Macbird opened there on February 22, 1967, and closed on January 21, 1968, after 386 performances.   It went on to a long engagement in Los Angeles but with a different cast. There was also a production by San Francisco's Committee Theater circa 1968.  This poster is from that Production.