The poster advertises a production of 26 bis, impasse du Colonel Poisy (26a, Colonel Poisy’s Dead End), an avant-garde play from 1983 by Québecois writer René-Daniel Dubois; it premiered at the Café de la Place des Arts in Montreal in 1986. It was designed by Lumbago of Montreal, a graphic design studio founded by François Picard that won many awards during the 1980s and ’90s for its work for such cultural institutions as the Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal.