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I return to theater poster design with another Leeds Arts Centre, again in their autumn slot, this time the play as a more Hallowe’en feel, a change from my previous LAC artwork.

‘Rough Sleepers’ is an LAC original play by Neil Rathmell. Set in an overgrown graveyard outside a disused chapel, the Captain a ‘gentleman of the road’ is welcomed by the vicar, but some of her parishioners see things differently. To them he’s just a rough sleeper and they want him out.

From this I wanted the poster to have a rough, bramble likes quality, black thatched lines and having at the time recently spent a day at Yorkshire Sculpture Park I found inspiration in the drawings and sketches of Henry Moore. Using his style of scratchy and crosshatches lines to create shading and depth , I applied my own style to it, creating this cross hatched captain.

And that was that; you can buy tickets here: www.carriageworkstheatre.co.uk.

Leeds Arts Centre is an amateur drama group formed in 1945. They present a wide variety of plays at the Carriageworks Theatre on Millennium Square in Leeds. They are proud members of LeedsCAN (Leeds Community Arts Network), formerly the Leeds Civic Arts Guild, a group of amateur theatre, musical, fine arts and opera companies based around the city. New members are always welcome!

Before I went to America, I joined the LAC To try my hand at something new. Recently my friend Ben directed ‘The Flint Street Nativity’ but due to the way the theatre works, all the advertising and posters had to be done by June.

‘The Flint Street Nativity’ is a play in which the Kids take control of the play, and all previous designs reflected this by using children’s style artwork and typography on the poster, to give the appearance the kids did everything. I decided to go a different route, my logic being the kids think they’re brilliant actors, why wouldn’t they think they’re great artist?

So from there I looked into cartoon styles a child might try to imitate, and settled on ‘Adventure Time’ over ‘Phineas and Ferb’ and ‘Regular Show’ due to personal preference for the art style. After that I selected three characters I thought central to the play; the Star, Gabriel and Herod and cartooned them up.

Flint Street 1

Flint Street 2

Flint Street 3

After that came the poster, the flyer and some promotional merchandise, with a hand written font to make differentiate it slightly from ‘Adventure Time’

Flint Street Poster

Flint Street Flyer #1

Flint Street Flyer #2

The Programme:

And that was that; you could have bought tickets here: www.carriageworkstheatre.co.uk.

Leeds Arts Centre is an amateur drama group formed in 1945. We present a wide variety of plays at the Carriageworks Theatre on Millennium Square in Leeds. We are proud members of LeedsCAN (Leeds Community Arts Network), formerly the Leeds Civic Arts Guild, a group of amateur theatre, musical, fine arts and opera companies based around the city. New members are always welcome!

“This production got so many things right – from the advertising, the poster, the programme, the decorations, the nativity stories it’s easy to praise it.”

Scott Pennwood – LCAN Adjudicator.

“Having seen the excellent poster displayed for a while I’ve been wondering what this was and so was very glad that I got to go and see it.”

Heather Pennwood – LCAN Adjudicator.

“Memorable moments were the Wise man (Howard Russel) talking about his lisp; Herod (Mitchell Perry) refusing to be Joseph and his facial expressions and the large battery pack for the angels (Angie Clarke) lights.”

Linda Hinchliffe – LCAN Adjudicator