Brief
Produce a series of three eye-catching, and prestigious theatre posters. Your approach to imagery, photography and or illustration, typography, format, layout and materials should be experimental, contemporary and original, making these items collectable.
Solution
In response to this brief I chose to create posters for Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, Arthur Miller's The Crucible, and George Bernard-Shaw's Pygmalion. Typography and format are used to create a sense of uniformity between them so that the posters feel part of collective set.
Waiting for Godot
Pygmalion
The basis for the musical My Fair Lady, Pygmalion tells of how a speech therapist works to transform a working class flower girl into a well-mannered lady who can pass as a duchess at a noble banquet.
The Crucible
Telling the infamous story of the Salem Witch Trials, Arthur Miller's play is a dark foreboding warning of what can happen when lies spread and hysteria takes its vicious grip of people's minds. I decided to portray the lies as a forked tongue whilst at the same time offering no sense of scale so that the tongue almost looks like a monster threatening to engulf all in its wake.
