A sketch entitled 'Audience Relations' executed in black ink with highlights in white paint. It shows the interior of a theatre in which a fight has broken out between the audience members and the performers who stand in front of the footlights. The scenery appears to be falling down behind them.
It was created for publication in a magazine/newspaper, probably the Penny Illustrated Paper and was drawn by Frederick Victor Poole (1865-1936) in 1903. He signed and dated the sketch with his initials 'F.V.P.' in the bottom right hand corner.
This item is one of several theatrical drawings from a collection of sketches commissioned from contemporary artists to be printed in illustrated magazines. The collection was donated to the museum by Sir William James Ingram in 1914.
