Karel Brynda, Václav Havel: Mills
While the party rhetoric of the 1980s continued to formally reproduce what was left of the ambition of the avant-gardes in the double moral standards of the sclerotically ascetic system planning eternal times with the Soviet Union, the theatres of the Prague Five represented the impulse and hedonism of youth, which demanded a more ornamental, more veined world. In a sort of popular version of a reaction to the clogged state structure maintaining a semblance of bright tomorrows, the troupes went well with the absurdity of bureaucratised language in Havel’s plays. Since the mature pieces of the future president had long been taken by more famous theatre companies, the cunning Sklep had no choice but to adapt the dramatic debut Život před sebou (Life Ahead), which Havel wrote and staged with the director Karel Brynda in order to escape the reality of military service of the 1950s. The poster for the, to this day most successful, performance by Sklep is typically based on Najbrt’s typeface, here using the shapes of anti-tank hedgehogs and other defensive barriers. It is complemented by patterns from facings insignia and the colour of the shirt jacket.
1990 Aleš Najbrt
Production estimated up to 14 days, the possibility of printing sizes S to XL
price 400 CZK