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Are You Lonesome Tonight?

Set Design
1985 (designed)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Preliminary set design by Voytek for Alan Bleasdale's Are You Lonesome Tonight? directed by Robin Lefevre, Liverpool Playhouse, 1985.


Object details

Categories
Object type
TitleAre You Lonesome Tonight? (generic title)
Materials and techniques
Pencil and ink on paper
Brief description
Preliminary set design by Voytek for Alan Bleasdale's Are You Lonesome Tonight? directed by Robin Lefevre, Liverpool Playhouse, 1985
Physical description
Pencil and ink on paper preliminary set design by Voytek for Alan Bleasdale's Are You Lonesome Tonight? directed by Robin Lefevre, Liverpool Playhouse, 1985. The design has Elvis singing at the center of the stage and the name 'Elvis' is written out in flowers on the ground.
Dimensions
  • Height: 29.5cm
  • Width: 41cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • Silver shroud over the set, Elvis in white pink & yellow flowers (On front side in ink)
  • Voytek (Signature in pencil on front side)
  • Thugs (On front side in pencil)
Credit line
Given by the artist
Literary reference
Summary
Preliminary set design by Voytek for Alan Bleasdale's Are You Lonesome Tonight? directed by Robin Lefevre, Liverpool Playhouse, 1985.
Other number
THM/153 (Voytek Archive) - Archive number
Collection
Accession number
S.2025-1994

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Record createdOctober 9, 2014
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