Allan Kaprow and Robert Whitman. The New York Poets Theatre presents

Allan Kaprow & Robert Whitman. New York, Maidman Playhouse/New York Poets Theatre, 1962. Mimeographed programme for Kaprow’s happening and Whitman’s film screening organized by Diane Di Prima at the legendary avant garde theatre on March 22, 1962. 22 × 21 cm, 4pp. Includes a statement by Kaprow about 'Happenings'. With mild vertical folds, a few small marks and small chip to upper corner of the front panel. The rear page contains an unidentified address handwritten in blue pen. Scarce document.

The leaflet announces Kaprow’s contribution as an ‘Untitled Happening’. In hindsight the performance was the first part of Kaprow's ‘A Service for the Dead’ in which the audience joined musicians in a spooky funeral procession throughout the entire theatre building, ending in the boiler room where a funeral service was conducted for a naked woman who lay on a horizontal ladder suspended from the ceiling.