Oh, Mama!

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Size: B2 (cca. 70 x 50 cm). Colourful theatre poster from the 1960s It advertised the play Jaj a Mama Oh Mama with the outstanding Hungarian actress of the era Hilda Gobbi The piece was played at Kis Sz npad Little Stage a former chamber theatre of Vid m Sz npad Cheerful Stage Kis Sz npad was located in the downtown of Budapest in J kai square 10 The building is now more than 100 years old as it was built in 1912 in Art Nouveau style designed by Marcell Komor and Dezs Jakab First it gave home to the Edison Film Theatre but soon it was the locations of halls cabarets and vaudevilles Prominent Hungarian comedians acters and actresses were performing there and entertained the audience After the World War II the theatre was led by Vilma Medgyaszay the mother of Hungarian chanson followed by K lm n Somogyi These times such famous actors were on stage as the Latab rs or Kamill Feleki In 1948 a new director and a new concept was introduced with a political pressure but the project soon went bankrupt After 5 years of neglect Kis Sz npad was opened in 1954 It played burlesque and musical comedies but it was also one of the few places where the critiques of the contemporary political system could be phrased in a way The cabaret vaudeville period of the theatre was ended in 1970 when the whole building was rebuilt and it started to give home to puppetry shows The 1962 play Oh Mama was a musical comedy in 3 acts It was first presented on the 9th of October and was played another 12 times in the month The play was written by G za Bar ti and Tam s Garai and it was directed by J zsef Zsudy The main character was played by the celebrated actress Hilda Gobbi She attended the National Hungarian Royal Drama Academy from 1932 until 1935 After 1935 she became an actress of the National Theatre In the interwar period she had a greater and greater success with her roles played in the National Theatre and in several other smaller theatres but in 1944 she was coercioned to illegality After she joined the Communist Party in 1945 she was let perform and participate in the reorganization of theatre life In 1949 she was awarded with the Kossuth award and in the 1950s she continued to have outstanding roles After the end of the 1950s she left the National Theatre and played in several smaller theatres in the 1960s She became a member of the National Theatre again in the 1970s and she was working almost until the end of her life Her artist activity was awarded several times in her life This poster was most probably created by Eric Vogel who designed the stage and the costume design of the play He was also a painter graphic designer and illustrator creating posters from the 1930s He couldn t pass into the Academy first so he studied at the private school of Lip t Hermann and Adolf F nyes Later he moved to Vienna and studied painting at the Academy After getting in contact with theatrics here his first successes were stage and costume designs for operettes Eric designed more than 400 plays during his career and also designed advertisements and posters for theatres and shows He enjoyed representing cheerful figures clowns animals dancers and actors in vivid colors He was one of the founders of the Cheerful Theatre for which he designed numerous posters This design is one example of them It is based on the colourful drawing of Hilda Gobbi in a humorous character Her face and physiognomy is depicted with strong red lines her hair is drawn in curvy thick blue lines and the black eyebrows and blue eyelashes are highlighted She has a cigarette in a cigarette holder in her mouth and her facial expression is captured to be sorrowful The portrayal used here is a lovely cartoon like style It was commonly employed in the poster art of the period especially in case of theatre movie and commercial posters The figure is put into a banckground with a harsh yellow concentric pattern which is in a strong contrast with her facial expression The title of the play is put to the. N° de ref. del artículo 2189

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