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Dedicated to producing the best works of foreign writers, the Gate established itself by 1981 as one of London's best fringe venues, along with the King's Head and the Bush. In 1982  the club expanded to include a brand-new custom-built studio theatre in Battersea, above the Latchmere Pub.\r\n\r\n<i>Maske</i> opened on 27 August 1981 and ran until 19 September. It featured the three plays <i>The Underpants</i>, <i>The Snob</i> and <i>1913</i>, adapted by Lou Stein from Carl Sternheim's cycle <i>Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Classes</i>. The plays are a cartooned and caricatured account of German domestic and political life in the years immediately preceding World War I, with farcical action incorporating the saga of dropped knickers and the collapse of the gold standard.  The George Grosz drawing on the poster mirrors the cartoon-like tone of the production.","physicalDescription":"Pictorial poster printed in indigo ink on peach coloured paper featuring a reproduction of a George Grosz drawing of a cigar-smoking man (probably representing Theobald Maske, the self-seeking anti-semitic civil servant of the play), dressed in a suit, standing legs akimbo, with his hands in pickpockets. 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Scenes from the Heroic Life of the Middle Classes</i> adapted and directed by Lou Stein from the original  plays by the German author Carl Sternheim, regarded by some as Germany's greatest 20th century comic dramatist.  The production included the three plays <i>The Underpants</i>, <i>The Snob</i> and <i>1913</i>.  The plays are a cartooned and caricatured account of German domestic and political life in the years immediately preceding World War I, which ranges from the saga of dropped knickers to the collapse of the gold standard.  The play was translated by Eric Bentley and included Anthony Head and John Abbott.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Poster advertising <i>Maske. 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