
The Leaf People (1975)
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Dennis Reardon’s highly unusual, experimental dramatic epic 'The Leaf People' arrived on Broadway at the Booth Theatre in 1975 under the auspices of Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival, completing a brief run of 8 performances. The sprawling, avant-garde narrative unfolds deep inside the sweltering, high-stakes interior of the Amazon jungle, tracking a terminally ill white American explorer who infiltrates a fiercely independent, uncontacted indigenous tribe, unknowingly triggering a catastrophic domino effect of cultural deceptions and ritual warfare. Directed by Tom O'Horgan, this tracking utilizes the rare front-of-house window card artwork.

