Photographic poster produced to advertise The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, 7 to 11 March 1995, a Theatre de Complicite production.

Poster printed in black and orange featuring a black and white photograph by Hannes Flaschberger of Lilo Baur as Lucie Cabrol in The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, showing her squatting on the ground, looking quizzically upwards, surrounded by four cut-out pictorial representations of chickens. Lettering, above, gives the title of the production and details of the authors and production team. The name of the company is printed vertically on the left edge of the poster, and the name of the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester and the date is printed below the image.

Given by Complicite

Poster produced to advertise The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol, Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, 7 to 11 March 1995, a Theatre de Complicite production based on a story by John Berger, adapted by Simon McBurney and Mark Wheatley. Directed by Simon McBurney; designed by Tim Hatley; lighting by Paule Constable, sound by Christopher Shutt. The Company comprised Lilo Baur, Simon McBurney, Hannes Flaschberger, Hélène Patarôt, Christine Marx, Stefan Metz, Tim McMullan and Mick Barnfather. The poster features a logo showing that the production was a 'Time Out' winner, 1994. The performances at the Leicester Haymarket Theatre were part of the 1994/95 tour of the production which in 1995 included the Shaftesbury Theatre, 18 Jan-25 February; Liverpool, 28 Feb-4 March; Blackpool Grand Theatre 23-25 March; Bury St. Edmunds, Theatre Royal, 28 March-1 April; Newcastle Playhouse, 5-8 April; Paris, Theatre Des Bouffes Du Nord 2-22 April, and Bournemouth Festival, Poole, 25-27 May. In April/May 1995 the production also visited Munich, Basel, Berlin, Hamburg and Helsinki, and between September and December 1995 it went to Johannesburg, Tokyo, Perth, Melbourne and Sydney.

Historical significance: The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol was a Theatre de Complicite production which opened at the Manchester City of Drama Festival at the Dancehouse Theatre, 10 January 1994. The narrative of the story was based on the life of a peasant woman from the Haute Savoie, whose story was told originally to the author John Berger by friends from the region.

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