Poster
1992
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Poster printed in yellow, silver, red and black with a predominantly yellow background featuring a colour photograph by Gareth McCarthy of a heart encircled by a thin black line with pairs of scissors, a man, a woman and a tomato. Advertising Theatre de Complicite's touring production of The Winter's Tale, 1992. Lettering at the top of the poster gives the name of the play and the quote 'It is required you awake your faith'; the name of the company features across the heart, and the Daily Telegraph quote 'One of the most eccentric and entertaining theatre companies in Britain today' features in lower right, above the word 'rebirth', made to appear as if pencilled in. The words 'Birth' and 'death', again reproduced in pencil, are below the heart, just above three small sheep, two black and one white.
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Brief description | Poster advertising the touring production of The Winter's Tale, 1992, devised by Theatre de Complicite from the original play by William Shakespeare. |
Physical description | Poster printed in yellow, silver, red and black with a predominantly yellow background featuring a colour photograph by Gareth McCarthy of a heart encircled by a thin black line with pairs of scissors, a man, a woman and a tomato. Advertising Theatre de Complicite's touring production of The Winter's Tale, 1992. Lettering at the top of the poster gives the name of the play and the quote 'It is required you awake your faith'; the name of the company features across the heart, and the Daily Telegraph quote 'One of the most eccentric and entertaining theatre companies in Britain today' features in lower right, above the word 'rebirth', made to appear as if pencilled in. The words 'Birth' and 'death', again reproduced in pencil, are below the heart, just above three small sheep, two black and one white. |
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Production type | Mass produced |
Credit line | Given by Complicite |
Object history | Poster produced to advertise The Winter's Tale, a Theatre de Complicite production devised in 1992 around the play by William Shakespeare. Devised under the direction of Annabel Arden; designed by Ariane Gastambide; lighting by Ben Ormerod, sound by Chris Shutt. The Company comprised Lilo Baur; Kathryn Hunter; Mark Lewis Jones; Marcello Magni; Simon McBurney; Dhobi Operei; Vicki Pepperdine; Gabrielle Reidy and Leo Wringer. The tour of this production included the ICA Theatre, 13-15 Jan 1992; the Oxford Playhouse, 17-21 March 1992; Cambridge Arts Theatre 23-25 March 1992, and the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith, 1 April - 2 May 1992.. |
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Accession number | S.130-2000 |
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Record created | July 18, 2000 |
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