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Poster is white with painted depictions of a man in red robe and sandles looking left and sticking his tongue out, clutching a laurel crown in his righthand. To the right of him is another man in a black robe and sandals, carrying a shield painted like a mask with mouth open. Text in black vertical left and bottom. Advertises for the opera "Coriolanus" from Ján Cikker.
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Poster is red, with cartoon depiction of a man with black hair parted in center, red lips and red cheeks holding a tablecloth with black and orange border, depicting a clock whose hands are a male arma nd female leg. Performance title on table cloth in black and orange. Remaining text at bottom in black. Advertises for the musical "Cabaret" based on the book by Joe Masteroff.
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Poster background is purple and white. Depicts white outline of a bald woman, with no visible features except red lips hodling a black line and a red mole. Purple gears superimposed on lower torso. Text in black and red top right. Advertises for a ballett performance of Coppelia, from Léo Delibes.
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Poster is white with two black and white cartoon panels in center outlined in orange. Top panel shows a prince dancing with a woman at a ball, while a second woman looks on approvingly. Bottom panel depicts a girl, presumably Cinderella, cleaning the fireplace. Text in black top and bottom. Advertises for a performance of Rossini's Italian Cinderella.
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Poster background is abstract geometric design in black and red. Superimposed is a bluescale high-contrast photograph of indistinguishable subject. Below is grayscale photograph of a crwd of people carrying signs and banners, and below that bottom right is a high contrast black and white photograph of three men, one facing left two facing right. Advertises for Schatrow's "Blue Horses on Red Grass", directed by Schroth and featuring the Berliner Ensemble.
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Poster background is watercolor pastels, divided in center between blue/white (sky) and gray/pink (land). A black outlined railroad track disappears into the horizon line, with the gray front of an anthropomorphized train featuring large circular hole in center. Train appears to be loaded with trash on top. Shadow of a person in front of the train where the track breaks off. Title in black at top and bottom. Advertises for the play "Barbarians" from Maxim Gorki.
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Poster depicts black and white sketch of the back of a woman in a dress falling through a window into a house with three darts in her back. Faint red stroke of color from lower right towards her head. Text in white center on either side of the woman. Advertises for a performance of "Bernarda Alba's House", from F. G. Lorca directed by F. Castorf.
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Poster is blue with outline of a man smoking a pipe in white. Outline is filled with depiction of Renaissance-era man and woman with palms tough, seemingly about to kiss. Above title in white arc, with the same man depicted below only full depiction in black and white. Advertises for a performance of the comic opera, "Junk Student".
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Poster is white and depicts cartoon drawing of a bearded man (vaguely resembles Marx) in black and gray, hunched over in profile. A red key sticks out from his back, begging to be wound. Text in black handwritten script top right advertising the play "Barby" from Peter Hacks and Rudi Strahl; vertical left director is Gisela Oechelhaeuser.
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Poster background is watermarked black and white photograph of a crowd of people. Title of performance in red, vertical along right, with director name underneath in black and name of theater vertical lower left in black. Remaindant text in black on green background top left, with black line above and below. Red star top left corner. Advertises for a performance of "The Brester Peace", in reference to the Union of Brest, the decison of the Church of Rus' to break with the Patriarch of Constantinople and place themselves under the authority of the Pope. Text says that "The title alone of Lenin's works shows how hard the struggle was for the Brester Peace", and gives examples of "Of the Revolutionary Phrase", "Strange and Monstrous", "Where is the Mistake?" and "Peace or War?".
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Poster is brown with stylized depiction of a black hand grasping a white hand, center right. Black border at top with white text. Advertises for an "Evening of Ballett" featuring "The Woodchip Prince" and "The Moor of Venice".
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This poster is pea green with a black, almost stick-figure depiction of a king with a yellow crown doing a handstand. The king's lower torso/legs form the negative space between two faces in profile looking at each other (in green). A black border is at the top with white text. This poster advertises for an "Evening of Ballet" featuring "The Woodchip Prince" and "The Moor of Venice".
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This poster is white with slightly diagonal lines going vertical across poster. At the top is white text shadowed in black advertising an "Evening of Ballet", followed by a black line, followed by blue text advertising "Symphony in C", followed by a black line, followed by purple text advertising "Joan from Zarissa", followed by a black line, followed by orange-red text advertising the "Carmen Suite", followed by a black line, followed by white text shadowed in black with name of the theater.
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This poster is red with a white silhouette in profile of Mozart in the center. The silhouette is overlaid with sheet music, and the bottom edge is depicted in flames. The text is in white at the top and bottom with blue gray text top left and bottom right. This poster advertises for a performance of "Amadeus" from Peter Shaffer.
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This poster is a photograph of a white mask with nails that have been driven through in various places from behind. The mask rests face-up in the dirt, with a pair of feathered wings behind it. Below the mask is a large white feather, with a nest of eggs below that. Various other objects are scattered around. the poster features a white border with black text on all sides. It advertises for a performance of "Cinderella" from Rossini.
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This poster depicts two white abstract figures in center surrounded by radiant red and orange light. The poster background depicts various caricatured, evil-looking faces and skulls in brown-gray outlined in black, looking toward the two white figures. The text is in handwritten black script at bottom. This poster advertises for a tragedy from Alfonso Sastre titled "Celestina", a tale of love and magic about a Romani woman. this was the play's premiere in the DDR.
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This poster is a high-contrast, black and white depiction of a group of Soviet sailors. The title is in white superimposed at the bottom center, with partial text in separate red rectangle in red that states "The Socialist Republic Lives". This advertises for a performance titled "It was the 18th of November", including dictation, documents, songs, etc. celebrating the 60th anniversary of the November Revolution. It was performed by students of the Staatlichen Schauspeilschule Berlin.
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This poster is off-white with a gold and black depiction in center of an ornately carved, Rococo-esque table with a sculpture of a female, winged sphinx lying on top. The woman has a feather woven into her hair and her tail is a fanged snake. The text is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a performance of Händel's opera "Alcina".
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This poster is black and depicts several floating, heavily shadowed white faces in profile devoid of features. One is facing left, while all others face right, is framed in a white rectangle and has a red star superimposed roughly where the visible eye would be. The text is in white at the bottom, underlined in white. This poster advertises for a performance of "Statement", from Wladimir Tenrjakow.
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This poster is black with large white print for play title and smaller print underneath for the remaining text. It depicts a black and white photograph of an aged, partially destroyed Greek statue of Antigone at bottom shadowed in red. This poster advertises for a performance of "Antigone" by Sophocles.
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This poster is green with a shell-like mirror image in the center done in black like a blockprint. The text is in the negative space between the shell, and above and below the shell in black. This poster advertises for a performance of "Amphitryon" from Peter Hacks, directed by Friedo Solter and lists the actors and their parts at bottom. Finally, the border of the poster is in red.
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This poster is white with a jagged horizontal line running across the center, representing the mountain range that has Fuji. A red slash is across the center of the line. The title is in black at the top and bottom. This poster advertises for a play titled "The Ascent of Mt. Fuji", by Aimatow and Muhamedshanow.
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this poster is gray with white dots in the background and a centered grayscale portrait of Mozart, whose face is scratched out in black ink. The title is in white above and bottom left. This poster advertises for a play from Peter Shaffer titled "Amadeus".
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This poster is dark blue with black print that makes it hard to read. A large rectangle
is centered on the poster and filled with black sponged ink; negative spaces form the profile of a man in a hard hat and two detached hands on either side. Within the profile are words such as "mensch [man]", "plan" and "pramie". This poster advertises for a play titled "Alone with All", from Alexander Gelman.
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This poster is white with black horizontal lines running across which bend upwards to form individual human heads, differentiated by hairstyle. Toward the center right one of these has morphed into a full torso colored in orange of a woman wearing a collared shirt. There is an orange border around the poster. The text is in black and orange near the top right, bottom left, and bottom. this poster advertises for a performance titled "To You, it doesn't Matter at All", from Peter Ensikat and Wolfgang Schaller.