Great and Small

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Artist/Maker	Vaudeville Theatre, London (producer) Voytek (designer)
Place of origin	Great Britain (designed)

Sketch by Voytek of a man typing for Botho Strauss's Great and Small, directed by Keith Hack, Richmond Theatre then Vaudeville Theatre, 1983. This show was produced by Duncan C. Weldon with Paul Gregg and Lionel Becker for Triumph Apollo Productions. The production opened at Richmond Theatre on 6 July 1983 and Vaudeville Theatre on 25 August 1983.

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Categories	Designs Entertainment & Leisure Theatre
Object type	Sketch
Title	Great and Small (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Pen and pencil on tracing paper Tracing Paper Ink Pencil Drawing (Image-Making)
Brief description	Sketch by Voytek of a man typing for Botho Strauss's Great and Small, directed by Keith Hack, Richmond Theatre then Vaudeville Theatre, 1983
Physical description	Pen and pencil sketch by Voytek on tracing paper of a man typing for Botho Strauss's Great and Small, directed by Keith Hack, Richmond Theatre then Vaudeville Theatre, 1983. The design shows a man in a trench coat kneeling over a red typewriter and writing by the light of a lamp. Crumpled paper litters the floor and a woman in red high heels stands in the doorway. The floor is partly shaded in red pencil.
Dimensions	Height: 20.8cm Width: 29.6cm
Credit line	Given by the artist
Literary reference	Great and Small
Summary	Sketch by Voytek of a man typing for Botho Strauss's Great and Small, directed by Keith Hack, Richmond Theatre then Vaudeville Theatre, 1983. This show was produced by Duncan C. Weldon with Paul Gregg and Lionel Becker for Triumph Apollo Productions. The production opened at Richmond Theatre on 6 July 1983 and Vaudeville Theatre on 25 August 1983.
Other number	THM/153 (Voytek Archive) - Archive number
Collection	Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number	S.1970-1994

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Record created	September 12, 2014
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1300263/great-and-small-sketch-voytek/

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