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Lettering in green and cream, left, gives the title of the production, the details of the production team, the cast and the theatre.  The poster has the logo of the Royal National Theatre in the top left corner, with the name of the company.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Unknown","id":"A1848"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"paper","id":"x30308"},{"text":"printing ink","id":"AAT187371"}],"techniques":[{"text":"offset lithography","id":"AAT192900"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"","categories":[{"text":"Theatre","id":"THES250537"},{"text":"Entertainment & Leisure","id":"THES48959"},{"text":"Advertising","id":"THES49001"},{"text":"Posters","id":"THES252963"}],"styles":[],"collectionCode":{"text":"T&P","id":"THES48602"},"images":["2016JH7943"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"003","id":"THES345172"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"posters","id":"AAT27221"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Great Britain","id":"x32019"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1992","earliest":"1992-01-01","latest":"1992-12-31"},"association":{"text":"","id":""},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"Given by Theatre de Complicite","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"38","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"101.5","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"","marksAndInscriptions":[],"objectHistory":"Poster produced to advertise The Street of Crocodiles, Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, 13 August 1992, a co-production of Theatre de Complicite and The Royal National Theatre, based on stories by Bruno Schulz, devised by the Company from an adaptation by Simon McBurney with Mark Wheatley.  Directed by Simon McBurney; designed by Rae Smith; lighting by Paule Constable; sound by Christopher Shutt; movement by Marcello Magni and music by Gerard McBurney.  The Company comprised Annabel Arden, Lilo Baur, Hayley Carmichael, Antonio Gil Martinez, Joyce Henderson, Eric Mallett, Clive Mendus, Stefan Metz, Cesar Sarachu, and Matthew Scurfield. The poster was designed by Michael Mayhew for Guy Chapman Associates, featuring a photograph by Nigel Parry. The production had 49 performances between its first preview on 7 August 1992 and its last night at the Cottesloe, 3 December 1992.\n\nHistorical significance: The Street of Crocodiles was a workshop production originally created by Theatre de Complicite with the Royal National Theatre's Studio and shown to an invited audience in April 1991. After a process of devising, adapting, writing and rehearsal, the production  opened at the RNT's Cottesloe auditorium on 13 August 1992.  It is based on the stories of the Polish writer and artist Bruno Schulz who was born in Drohobycz in 1892 and who became an art teacher there in 1924.  He exhibited his paintings but by the 1930s he concentrated on writing, setting all his stories in Drohobycz.  His vision was an immensely theatrical one in which human beings, objects and spaces take on temporary unstable shapes and forms before metomorphosing into new ones. Bruno Schulz was regarded as one of the three great talents of Polish literature between the wars.  He was killed by the Gestapo in 1942.\r\n\r\nThe production of A Street of Crododiles toured the world between 1992 and 1994, visiting Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain and Switzerland.  In 1998 Complicite revived the show following an invitation to perform at the Lincoln Center Festival, New York.  This revival went on to Toronto, Minneapolis and Tokyo before returning for a final London season at the Queen's Theatre in January 1999, nearly eight years after its original production.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Poster advertising Theatre de Complicite in The Street of Crocodiles, a Royal National Theatre and a Theatre de Complicite co-production, adapted by Simon McBurney and Mark Wheatley from the original stories by Bruno Schulz,  Royal National Theatre, Cottesloe Theatre, 13 August 1992.","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Mass produced","id":"THES48863"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[{"text":"Theatre de Complicite","id":"N1073"}],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["S.732-2000"],"accessionNumberNum":"732","accessionNumberPrefix":"S","accessionYear":2000,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-23","recordCreationDate":"2000-08-11","availableToBook":true}}