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"A Midsummer Night's Dream" Poster
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Poster announcing a performance of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," at Broom Street Theater in Madison, Wisconsin. Performed by the Broom Street Acting Company and directed by Joel Gersmann. Features an enlarged contact sheet of 35mm black and white film negatives, with alternating frames of head shots and pictures of television screens filled with static.
April 1971
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WHi 53778
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