Privates on Parade
Set Design
1979 (made)
1979 (made)
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Design by Michael Annals for the permanent surrounds, flats and doors for Peter Nichols's play Privates on Parade, Adelaide Festival Theatre, Australia, 1979.
Michael Annals (1938-1990) trained at Hornsey College of Art and began his career designing sets and costumes for the Old Vic. In 1963 the newly formed National Theatre Company moved into the Old Vic and Annals joined them, having his first major success with his designs for Peter Shaffer's historical epic, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). He went on to have an international career, designing for the theatre and for ballet, opera and film, but is most closely associated with the National Theatre, where he created notable settings for a range of productions, including O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night starring Laurence Olivier, Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page and Shaw's Heartbreak House. Annals frequently worked in the United States and was Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Yale in 1966-1967. In 1984 he gave up the stage and took up photography and illustration.
Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977, directed by Michael Blakemore. It was produced at the Adelaide Festival Theatre in 1979, again directed by Blakemore and using the Annals settings, though Michael Annals did not go to Australia to work on the play.
Michael Annals (1938-1990) trained at Hornsey College of Art and began his career designing sets and costumes for the Old Vic. In 1963 the newly formed National Theatre Company moved into the Old Vic and Annals joined them, having his first major success with his designs for Peter Shaffer's historical epic, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). He went on to have an international career, designing for the theatre and for ballet, opera and film, but is most closely associated with the National Theatre, where he created notable settings for a range of productions, including O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night starring Laurence Olivier, Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page and Shaw's Heartbreak House. Annals frequently worked in the United States and was Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Yale in 1966-1967. In 1984 he gave up the stage and took up photography and illustration.
Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977, directed by Michael Blakemore. It was produced at the Adelaide Festival Theatre in 1979, again directed by Blakemore and using the Annals settings, though Michael Annals did not go to Australia to work on the play.
Object details
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| Title | Privates on Parade (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Balsa wood, card, watercolour and ink on board with plastic covering |
| Brief description | Design by Michael Annals for the permanent surrounds, flats and doors for Peter Nichols's play Privates on Parade, Adelaide Festival Theatre, Australia, 1979 |
| Physical description | Design by Michael Annals for the permanent surrounds, flats and doors street drop for Privates on Parade. Rectangular shape of corrugated card, painted to suggest a textured metal surface and mounted on a rectangle of balsa wood, left, and a balsa wood panelled door, right, both mounted on brown art board, the board covered in clear plastic. The board is annotated by the artist with the words 'COLOUR ELEVATIONS OF CORRUGATED PERMANENT SURROUND, / HEADER AND SLIDER FLATS. PLUS DOORS IN SLIDER FLATS'. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Michael Annals |
| Summary | Design by Michael Annals for the permanent surrounds, flats and doors for Peter Nichols's play Privates on Parade, Adelaide Festival Theatre, Australia, 1979. Michael Annals (1938-1990) trained at Hornsey College of Art and began his career designing sets and costumes for the Old Vic. In 1963 the newly formed National Theatre Company moved into the Old Vic and Annals joined them, having his first major success with his designs for Peter Shaffer's historical epic, The Royal Hunt of the Sun (1964). He went on to have an international career, designing for the theatre and for ballet, opera and film, but is most closely associated with the National Theatre, where he created notable settings for a range of productions, including O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night starring Laurence Olivier, Hecht and MacArthur's The Front Page and Shaw's Heartbreak House. Annals frequently worked in the United States and was Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Yale in 1966-1967. In 1984 he gave up the stage and took up photography and illustration. Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1977, directed by Michael Blakemore. It was produced at the Adelaide Festival Theatre in 1979, again directed by Blakemore and using the Annals settings, though Michael Annals did not go to Australia to work on the play. |
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| Accession number | S.678-1991 |
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