William Shakespeare may never have envisioned his “Much Ado About Nothing” heroine Beatrice quite like this, but a UK-based design firm did.

Cherry Williams, UCR Library’s Director of Distinctive Collections received a request from the firm Stylorouge Ltd. for an image of Mexican Soldaderas from our Battle of Ciudad Juarez photograph collection in Special Collections & University Archives.

“The designer wanted to feature this photo in a theatrical program to promote the 2017 ‘Summer of Love’ season for Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre,” Cherry explained.

Their completed pop-art inspired playbill is shown in the image above, and more details about the production are available online on the theater’s website.

More than 40,000 copies of the brochure featuring the photograph were printed and distributed in the UK to advertise the theatrical production.

This and many other striking photographs of the Mexican Revolution are available for viewing and research in our Special Collections and University Archives.