Dacha
2019-2020 SEASON
I produced three posters for Dacha Theatre's 2019-2020 season—a season whose in-person shows were cut short by COVID-19. Each of these productions had very different themes, but for all of them I used a pen-and-ink illustration style combined with photo manipulation.
Role: ILLUSTRATOR, GRAPHIC DESIGNER
Dust
BY DANIELLE MOHLMAN
Dust, a production which was ultimately cancelled because of COVID-19, is a play full of theatre and dance, which meditates on dark themes related to gun violence. The setting and characters are primarily related to a high school swim team.
The poster uses a combination of textures, some photographic, some intended to mimic screenprinting, around the structure of a handdrawn scene. On the back tiles, subtle illustrations recall themes and symbols from the play. The title uses an SVG font that reads as disturbing when rendered in red.
The Moors
BY JEN SILVERMAN
The Moors was a beautiful, atmospheric production which made use of on-stage rain effects. The play is set on the English moorland and draws heavily on themes from classic gothic novels. Also incorporating the philosophical musings of anthropromorphized animals, as well as straightforward murder and 'bodies in the attic', the play feels divorced from real time.
The poster depicts a moor-hen among the gorse on a foggy, rocky hillside, with the barely articulated, menacing shape of the 'manor house' in the distance.
Pride & PrejuDICE
Pride & PrejuDICE was part of Dacha Theatre's Dice Series, a series of productions where the roles of the cast are randomly selected each night. The playful, immersive production merged a modern format and set with period costumes and a faithful adaptation.
The illustration for this poster is actually modified from the original illustrations by C. E. Brock, now public domain, used in early editions of Pride and Prejudice.
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