2010.54.6901

• ethnicity and race
• hispanic american

Poster is printed on white paper with text and images in blue. Poster has a border created by a thin blue line. The top of the poster has the text: "El Teatro Campesino / presents / In the Old Mission of / San Juan Bautista, California / La Pastorela / An Early California Folk Opera of The Shepherd's Play". The center of the poster has a stylized drawing. In the foreground of the drawing, at left there are two male figures side by side, both are wearing wide brimmed hats and looking up toward the sky, the figure at left is wearing overalls and playing a drum, the figure at right is playing a flute. Behind the two male figures is a large crowd of men, women, and children, many with outstretched arms looking to the sky. In the sky above the figures there are a number of celestial objects: a stylized sun with a face, a stylized moon with a face, stars of varying size, and a large comet whose long tail is made up of many small white birds. The bottom of the poster has text at center: "Directed by Tony Curiel* / December 6 through December 22, 1985 / 'Medieval theater must have this / kind of color and spirit. But El Teatro / isn't trying to revive a tradition here, / simply to keep it going - to pick up a / light from the candle of the past." / Dan Sullivan, Los Angeles Times" with a small El Teatro Campesino logo and "El Teatro Cmpesino / Luis Valdez, Artistic Director / (R) / *Tony Curiel, a Princess Grace Foundation - USA Theatre Fellow 1985-1986". The lower left corner has text listing show times, the lower right corner has text relating to ticket sales.