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Poster

1993 (made)
Artist/Maker
AJC (designers)
PPS (printers (people))
Crickmay, Anthony (photographers)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

This poster advertises the week-long 1993 season by English National Ballet which re-opened the Savoy Theatre, London, after the auditorium had been destroyed by fire. The main attraction of the season was Wayne Sleep's Savoy Suite which drew on the world of Guilbert and Sullivan by the poster shows a photographic image by Anthony Crickmay of the seven men who made up the cast of Olga Roriz's work The Seven Silences of Salome.


Object details

Categories
Entertainment & Leisure
Dance
Posters
Advertising
Object type
Poster
Materials and techniques
Printing ink on paper
Printing Ink
Paper
Printing
Brief description
Programme poster for English National Ballet, Savoy Theatre, 19 to 24 July 1993, featuring Savoy Suite, Raymonda, The Seven Silences of Salome, Les Sylphides and Sphinx
Physical description
Predominantly red photographic and typographic season poster for English National Ballet at the Savoy Theatre, 19 - 24 July 1993, featuring an image of seven men in The Seven Silences of Salome. The poster lists the other ballets being presented: Savoy Suite, the Grand pas from Raymonda, Les Sylphides and Sphinx.
Dimensions
  • Poster height: 50.8cm
  • Poster width: 31.9cm
Marks and inscriptions
Transliteration
Summary
This poster advertises the week-long 1993 season by English National Ballet which re-opened the Savoy Theatre, London, after the auditorium had been destroyed by fire. The main attraction of the season was Wayne Sleep's Savoy Suite which drew on the world of Guilbert and Sullivan by the poster shows a photographic image by Anthony Crickmay of the seven men who made up the cast of Olga Roriz's work The Seven Silences of Salome.
Collection
Theatre and Performance Collection
Accession number
S.4059-1994

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Record createdJuly 27, 2010
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1164757/poster-crickmay-anthony/
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