The poster designer (and my good friend) Natalie Barbara was partying with me in Camden during the 2000s, the era I revisit in I Miss Amy Winehouse. Nat captured so well what I needed the poster to say. I had a retro look in mind, from the CD case to the font to the roses, to reflect the nostalgia that prompted me to write the show.
Amy Winehouse's music famously draws on influences from before the 2000s, such as 90s rap and 60s Motown. She also had a consciously retro look with her outfits, cat-eye flicks, vintage-looking tattoos and, of course, that beehive.
The show is a tribute to the singer - and to a few other people I miss - so I thought that the CD cover would be a good way of conveying that: here is a remix of my memories. Amy is portrayed as a cartoon because I'm imagining my own version of her; the parasocial relationship we have to celebrities is an important theme in the show.
The CD itself is an outdated format now, like the 2000s, like that time in our lives, but there's so much joy in revisiting that past. That's how I hope audiences feel after coming to see I Miss Amy Winehouse.
- Designer
- Natalie Barbara
- Photographer
- Suchandrika Chakrabarti
- Performer
- Suchandrika Chakrabarti
- Show
- I Miss Amy Winehouse