PROJECTS

'What gets you out of bed in the mornings?' Red Dragon63 Plague Doctor 'Me & my cancer'

 

  
 
 

PLAGUE DOCTOR

 

Performance
(as part of ‘me and my cancer’ project)

by Simon Tipping

2008

To find out more about this performance or hire for Festivals and events please contact Simon

 

  

About the work

 
 

MEDICO DELLA PESTE
(Plague Doctor Mask)

The "Plague Doctor" may be considered a mask nowadays, but in the old times it was a sad reality.

The mask with the long beak is made to keep in it substances and aromas that it was believed would have protected the doctor from getting contaminated from the plague.

 

 

  
 
 
  

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