Good
1994, silkscreen poster
Client: Fells Point Corner Theatre
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Good is a vivid and complex examination of Brecht’s dictum that for evil to prosper, good men must do nothing. The central character, Halder, is a professor of literature: a good, liberal-minded, music-loving man who step by carefully rationalised step ends up embracing the final solution. The play opens with a popular song of the 1930s, I’m Always Chasing Rainbows, stolen, as Halder swiftly reminds us, from Chopin. The message is clear: if art and music are corrupted, the rest must follow.--The Guardian
My first idea for the poster featured an image of Hitler with the title acting as a caption.
Hitler=Good.
The director felt like this idea gave too much away and the artistic director was afraid that the poster would attract neo-nazis and/or protestors. I felt that this was silly, but they were seriously concerned about it, enough so that I abandoned the original idea in favor the more subdued open ended version we ended up with.
I still feel like this was a lost opportunity.
