RSC poster for 1976 with date changes

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Artist/Maker	Richard Bird and Associates (printers (people))
Place of origin	Great Britain (made)

Photographic, pictorial and typographic. A bearded face for Zykovs, and a painting in the style of Stanley Spencer of four men and one woman drinking and sitting round a small table for The Iceman Cometh.

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Categories	Entertainment & Leisure Posters Advertising
Object type	Poster
Title	RSC poster for 1976 with date changes (generic title)
Materials and techniques	Offset lithograph Printing Ink Offset Lithography
Brief description	Poster, with manuscript changes to dates, advertising The Royal Shakespeare Company's summer 1976 repertoire of Zykovs [and] The Iceman Cometh
Physical description	Photographic, pictorial and typographic. A bearded face for Zykovs, and a painting in the style of Stanley Spencer of four men and one woman drinking and sitting round a small table for The Iceman Cometh.
Dimensions	Poster height: 50.4cm Poster width: 31.8cm
Marks and inscriptions	Transliteration
Object history	This poster includes a manuscript addition which notes that the Press Night of The Iceman Cometh was postponed to June 18th. Associated Production: Zykovs (British premiere, palywright: Maxim Gorky) 10.5.1976. The Iceman Cometh (revival, playwright: Eugene O'Neill) 20.5.1976. Actor: Gary Bond. Royal Shakespeare Company. Aldwych Theatre, London. These were Royal Shakespeare Company productions at the Alwdych Theatre. A note on the poster mentions that The Iceman Cometh had not been staged professionally for twenty years.
Collection	Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number	S.338-1994

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Record created	July 23, 2010
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1161937/rsc-poster-for-1976-with-poster-richard-bird-and/

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