Poster produced to advertise the tour of Foe, a Theatre de Complicite co-production with The West Yorkshire Playhouse which was originally produced at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, 29 Feb-30 March 1996, and which toured in England and abroad in summer 1996.

Poster printed in black, blue and yellow featuring an aerial photograph of an island in which appears a large footprint. Black lettering, above the image, gives the title of the production, the name of the company and 'A co-production with the west yorkshire playhouse'; white lettering over the image gives the author of the original, the adapter and the production team, with the Daily Telegraph quote: 'Complicite... a company of quite exceptional originalty' and 'Being a True Account of a Year Spent on a Desert Island. With Many Strange Circumstances Never Hitherto Related' and thedetails of the production team, the theatre and dates. The poster has the West Yorkshire Playhouse logo; the London Arts Board logo and the Arts Council of England logo bottom right.

Given by Theatre de Complicite

Poster produced to advertise the tour of Foe, a Theatre de Complicite co-production with the West Yorkshire Playhouse, which opened at the West Yorkshire Playhouse 29 February 1996, based on the novel by J.M.Coetzee, adapted by Mark Wheatley, co-directed by Annie Castledine and Marcello Magni, design and lighting by Peter Mumford, costume design by Idit Nathan. The poster was overprinted with the names of the tour venues.

Historical significance: Foe is a re-telling of Daniel Defoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe. In this re-telling a woman called Susan Barton is shipwrecked on a remote island with a white man, Cruso (this is Coetzee's spelling of the name) and his black slave, Friday. She is rescued and returns to London with Friday, Cruso having died on the voyage. There she dreams of becoming famous and searches out Daniel Foe (Defoe's real name) to write her story.

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