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Poster is purple with white text at top. Features abstract depiction of woman in aqua with orange hair forming a circular shape. Mandela above her head in center hair part in orange, pink and aqua. Three spotlights emerge from each side of her head. Advertises for the musical "A Woman from Maß", from Nils Werner with Music from Siegfried Schäfer. Play's premiere.
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Poster is black with high-contrast portrait in white of a woman's face looking top left. Title at top in shades of yellow and green with purple and aqua text left and right. Advertises for the musical "Sweet Charity" from Neil Simon and Cy Coleman.
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Poster is features black and white photograph of a bearded man in a hat on white circle background, floating above a headless pinstripe suit with bowtie and two floating white gloves on either side. Border in gray with gray text inside. Advertises for the musical "My Friend Bunbury", based on Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", from Helmut Bez and Jürgen Degenhardt with music from Gerd Natschinski.
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Poster is off-white with black text and heavily hatched depiction in center of a man holdiding a woman in what appears to be a cave. Both are looking left. Advertises for the opera "The Devil's Pleasure Palace", its premiere in celebration of "Schubert Year" 1978.
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Poster is abstract depiction in black and gold, with blue stars and white star outlines superimposed. Gray border, thickest at bottom with black text. Advertises for a performance of "The Transitional Society" directed by Thomas Langhoff.
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Poster is black with beige depiction of cobblestones stippled with varying-sized black dots and what looks like a diapered baby in red upside down near bottom with shadow underneath. Text in white at top and vertical left and right. Advertises for "The Fall", based on "The Trojan Women" of Euripides from Walter Jens.
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Poster is white with janus-faced cartoon depiction in center of a jester and a king, with profiles rotated and back-to-back. Depiction is surrounded by tight black border, with text on all sides (title in bold black italics, remaindent text in regular print). Advertises for a performance of "The Topsy-Turvy World".
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Poster is black with text in white, red, and green on all sides. In center is white depiction of a janus-faced head with two hands, palms-up, below. Advertises for "Week of Gestischen Theaters" in the city of Prenzlauer Berg, from Jun 30th through July 9th 1989.
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Portrait is older, posed black and white portrait of a family, with a thick red circle around a woman, presumably Wassa Shelesnowa. A thick ragged line runs horizontally underneath in fuschia, as if torn, with white underneath it. Text at top and bottom in black on white. Advertises for "Wassa Shelesnowa (A Mother), directed by Barbara Abend, written by Maxim Gorki. Play's premiere in the DDR.
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Poster is a pastel (medium) depicton of a park bench with trees behind and a trash can at right with a blue tie hanging out. Text in white and black on white at top, bottom, center left and top right. Advertises for "Two on a Bank", from Alexander Gelman, starring Christine Schorn and Friedo Solter, directed by Hellmann.
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Poster is a blue-scale portrait of a spectacled man, with superimposed triangle of repeating close-up images of the man's glasses. Text in white on black at bottom. Advertises for "The Shadow", a fairytale comedy for adults from Jewgeni Schwarz.
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Poster depicts brick walls in black and white, with profile of two suitcases in brown in forefront. Text in black print top right. Advertises for a performance of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman".
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Poster is brown with black border. Depicts pencil drawings of various individuals from the play, mostly head and torso portraits. Male indvidual at forefornt with flowered tie. Text in black top right and white (theater) top left. Advertises for the play "Jegor Bulytschow and the Others".
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Poster is white depiction of a blonde sorceress holding a wand and a red monster behind. Depiction set inside a gold decoration topped by two creatures crossed between angel and chicken. Title underneath in black script. Advertises for "The Little Sorceress", a fairytale ballet from J. A. Weindich, H. J. Nellesen, and F. Dallmann.
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Poster is a grainy black and white photograph of a seating arrangement (sofa, chair, table) covered in plastic as if abandoned. Text in red at top. Advertises for the comedy "The Cherry Garden" by Anton Tschechow.
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Poster is white with red outer border and black inner border. Plack and white charcoal depiction of a headless suit, with yellow speech bubble emerging from neck. Text in black inside. Advertises for the premier of "No People", from Rudi Strahl.
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Poster features painting outlined in black of farm area with a large rooster startling the inhabitants (some are falling out of their chairs, smoke appears coming from the window of the farmhouse). A French (?) flag in distorited colors. Advertises for a performance of "Kikerikikeri", roughly translated, "cockadoodledoo", the noise a rooster makes.
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Poster background is brown with black silhouette of a boat in an ocean at bottom and half-moon above. Title in beige letters outlined in black at top, with white text at bottom. Advertises for the opera "Levin's Mill" from Udo Zimmerman.
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Outer border is red and white with black inner border. Background is comprised of squiggly diagonal gridlines with title superimposed in handwritten caps at top, first line green with small black dots, second line blue and pruple with large black dots. Remaindent text in various colors below and at bottom. Depicts a man with enourmous ears listening through an ear trumpet. Advertises for the children's opera "The Country Bum-Bum" from Rainer Kirsch and Georg Katzer.
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Poster is white with black-and-white oval portrait of Beethoven top center. Text in italics at top and bottom with all-caps print directly below portrait. Advertises for the DDR's premiere performance of "Leonore". Black border.
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Poster is white with musical title at top in alternating green and orange "bubble letters". In center is a depiction of an individual in a black hat with green and orange polka-dot bow and black sunglasses. Red lips indicated individual is female but black stubble in chin area indicates male. Below are two oranges situated in manner of a bikini top. Text in black beneath title and at bottom. Advcertises for the musical "Sugar" based on the film "Some Like it Hot" from Billy Wilder and I. A. L. DIaomnd, directed and choreographed by Gower Champion with music from Jule Styne, lyrics from Bob Merrill, and German translation from Peter Ensikat.
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Poster is off-white with text in black on random rectangular irridescent silver shapes outlined in black. Name of play in red outlined in black also on silver shapes. Advertises for the play from Gerhard Winterlich titled "Horizons".
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Poster background is white with black and gray lines and splotches. Text superimposed in gray and black reads "Hermannsschlacht" (Hermann Battle). Portion extending from right in black with red inner border and white outer border appears to have been torn out, with remaining text in handwritten-script in whtie. Black border at bottom of poster with theater name bottom right in white. Advertises for the drama "Hermann Battle' from Heinrich von Kleist.
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Poster is white with black border. Depicts a face in center wich is divided vertically; right half is a clown with white background, left half is a king with black shadow behind. Text in black top and bottom. Advertises for "The Woodchip Prince" from Bartok, and "The Fool" from Prokofjew; the former is a ballet the latter a comic opera.
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Poster background is comprised of black and white dots that fade from black on white at top to white on black at cottom. Text in black on yellow at top. Depicts a man's head with gray wig with nose turned up and mouth open to reveal another white face inside. Advertises for Molière's "Man from Pourceaugnac".