In 1999, Glaser designed the first of his posters for the Theatre for a New Audience, a non-profit New York theater that presents innovative productions of Shakespeare as well as works by contemporary playwrights. Like many of the later ones, that work, celebrating the theater’s 20th year, featured a portrait of the Bard himself. By contrast, the composition here is based on a photograph of the doll-like figure of Hermia from the play; Glaser ornaments her randomly with other important elements of the drama—the magical flower containing a love potion and the ass’s head worn by the “Rude Mechanical” Bottom—in a manner suggesting the unpredictable and radical nature of Julie Taymor’s production.
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