{"meta":{"version":"2.1","_links":{"self":{"href":"https://api.vam.ac.uk/v2/object/O1370854"},"collection_page":{"href":"https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1370854/"}},"images":{"_primary_thumbnail":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011ET2799/full/!100,100/0/default.jpg","_iiif_image":"https://framemark.vam.ac.uk/collections/2011ET2799/","_alt_iiif_image":[],"imageResolution":"low","_images_meta":[{"assetRef":"2011ET2799","copyright":"© Victoria and Albert Museum, London","sensitiveImage":false}]},"see_also":null},"record":{"systemNumber":"O1370854","accessionNumber":"S.761-1991","objectType":"Set design","titles":[{"title":"Linda Came Today","type":"generic title"}],"summaryDescription":"Set design by Michael Annals for <i>Linda Came Today</i>, a television play broadcast in the ITV Playhouse series, 1962.\r\n\r\nMichael Annals (1938-1990) trained at Hornsey College of Art and began his career designing sets and costumes for the Old Vic. In 1963 the newly formed National Theatre Company moved into the Old Vic and Annals joined them, having his first major success with his designs for Peter Shaffer's historical epic, <i>The Royal Hunt of the Sun</i> (1964). He went on to have an international career, designing for the theatre and for ballet, opera and film, but is most closely associated with the National Theatre, where he created notable settings for a range of productions, including O'Neill's <i>Long Day's Journey into Night</i> starring Laurence Olivier, Hecht and MacArthur's <i>The Front Page</i> and Shaw's <i>Heartbreak House</i>. Annals frequently worked in the United States and was Associate Professor of Scenic Design at Yale in 1966-1967. In 1984 he gave up the stage and took up photography and illustration.\n\n<i>Linda Came Today</i> was directed by Peter Potter and featured Beatrix Lehmann, Tamara Hinchco, Sean Barrett and Bill Treacher.\n\n\n\n","physicalDescription":"Design for a staircase, viewed from above, with a hanging lamp and two doors on the upper landing. A figure is climbing the stairs. Unsigned.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Annals, Michael","id":"A1935"},"association":{"text":"theatre designers","id":"AAT25681"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"watercolour","id":"x33202"},{"text":"crayon","id":"x30605"},{"text":"ink","id":"AAT15012"},{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"}],"techniques":[{"text":"drawing (image-making)","id":"AAT54196"},{"text":"painting (image-making)","id":"AAT54216"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Watercolour, crayon and ink on paper","categories":[{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Television","id":"THES269530"},{"text":"Designs","id":"THES48968"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2011ET2799"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES356617"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"set designs","id":""}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1962","earliest":"1962-01-01","latest":"1962-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Bequeathed by Michael Annals","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"22.7","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"17.8","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[{"content":"","inscriber":{"name":{"text":"","id":""},"association":{"text":"","id":""}},"date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"description":"","interpretation":"","language":"","medium":"","method":"","position":"","script":"","translation":"","transliteration":" ","type":"","note":""}],"objectHistory":"","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Set design by Michael Annals for <i>Linda Came Today</i>, a television play broadcast in the ITV Playhouse series, 1962","bibliographicReferences":[{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":""}],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"","id":""},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.761-1991"],"accessionNumberNum":"761","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":1991,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-16","recordCreationDate":"2016-10-20","availableToBook":true}}