| Description | By Tony Harrison, Director Tony Harrison. Premiere, The National Theatre, 1 Oct 1992. The file contains costume and set designs. The costumes vary from suits with top hats to Chinese robes with other garments in the 1910s style, many of the women have flags [see 4109-4115]. Except for the flags the colours are muted black, greys and browns for the Westerners with jewels colours such as reds and golds for the Chinese. 4091 shows a number of Chinese figures and is possibly research into costumes, other group pictures appear to be designs for example, 4103 shows three garments one from the verso. 4119-21 shows the characters in 'life action' undertaking table industries, with notes explaining the tasks. The set backdrops were projected with set pieces on boards. One such set piece, a Chinese screen, is shown in colour and graphite [4077-4081] using black and white with red and gold, 4082-3 show elements of the design. The backdrop depicts a devastated war landscape of burnt out trees, though 4127 have some leaves in greens contrasting the black of the trees.
Pen, paint and pencil on paper.
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