Latin and Cyrillic versions of my poster design for the play The Tin Drum by for JDP-Yugoslav Drama Theater in Belgrade, Serbia.
The Tin Drum is a theater adaptation of Günter Grass' novel of the same title. The story revolves around the life of Oskar Matzerath, a young boy who willfully arrests his own physical development and remains in the body of a child even as he enters adulthood. A darkly comic war drama with magical realist elements, the play follows Oskar, a precocious child living in Danzig, who wields seemingly preternatural abilities. He lives in contempt of the adults around him and witnesses firsthand their potential for cruelty, first via the rise of the Nazi Party and then the subsequent war.
Through all this, a toy tin drum, the first of which he received as a present on his third birthday, followed by many replacement drums each time he wears one out from over-vigorous drumming, remains his treasured possession; he is willing to commit violence to retain it.
