Bartholomew Fair
Poster
1977 (made)
1977 (made)
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Poster advertising Ben Jonson's play <i>Bartholomew Fair</i>, Marlowe Dramatic Society at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 1977.
Griff Rhys Jones’s production for Cambridge’s Marlowe Dramatic Society boasted a 40-strong cast and exuberantly evoked the bawdy, bustling world of Jonson’s 1614 city comedy. The RSPCA was misled into believing that live pigs would appear on stage and intervened, giving the show useful publicity – the authorities had been provoked in a case of life mirroring art.
Griff Rhys Jones’s production for Cambridge’s Marlowe Dramatic Society boasted a 40-strong cast and exuberantly evoked the bawdy, bustling world of Jonson’s 1614 city comedy. The RSPCA was misled into believing that live pigs would appear on stage and intervened, giving the show useful publicity – the authorities had been provoked in a case of life mirroring art.
Object details
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| Title | Bartholomew Fair (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Printing ink on paper |
| Brief description | Poster advertising Ben Jonson's play Bartholomew Fair, Marlowe Dramatic Society at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 1977 |
| Physical description | Photographic, pictorial and typographic poster, with a photographic image of a torso of a naked woman with a pig's head superimposed, holding a bottle. An eye mask and a long-stemmed pipe have been added to the head. The image is set on a black background with the production details above in white. |
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| Gallery label | Griff Rhys Jones’s production of Bartholomew Fair for the Marlowe Dramatic Society boasted a 40-strong cast. It evoked the bawdy, bustling world of Ben Jonson’s 17th century comedy, set in Smithfield, London. The RSPCA was misinformed that live pigs would appear on stage and intervened, giving the show useful publicity – but the authorities had been provoked in a case of life mirroring art.(16/08/2016) |
| Object history | Associated Production: Bartholomew Fair. Playwright: Ben Jonson. Company: The Cambridge University Marlowe Society. Cambridge Arts Theatre. 8.3.1977. Performance category: comedy. |
| Summary | Poster advertising Ben Jonson's play <i>Bartholomew Fair</i>, Marlowe Dramatic Society at the Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 1977. Griff Rhys Jones’s production for Cambridge’s Marlowe Dramatic Society boasted a 40-strong cast and exuberantly evoked the bawdy, bustling world of Jonson’s 1614 city comedy. The RSPCA was misled into believing that live pigs would appear on stage and intervened, giving the show useful publicity – the authorities had been provoked in a case of life mirroring art. |
| Bibliographic reference | Haill, Catherine. Theatre Posters. London : HMSO., 1983. 48p., ill. |
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| Accession number | S.27-1983 |
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| Record created | July 23, 2010 |
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