Works of Peter Darrell -1971

Dawn Sutton in 'Five Rückert Songs' Photograph by Alan Crumlish

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Works of Peter Darrell - 1971

1970 - 1972

Four Portraits

1^st February 1971, Scottish Theatre Ballet McLaren High School, Callander

This ballet was inspired by Agnes Varda 's film Le Bonheur. Bernard falls in love with Philip's wife Charlotte. His wife, Esme, is found drowned - was it suicide or an accident?

COMPOSER: Serge Prokofiev
DESIGNER: Peter Docherty
CASTING: Brian Burn, Peter Connell, Hilary Debden, Elaine McDonald

Giselle

30^th March 1971, Scottish Theatre Ballet His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen

Darrell directed an unusually logical treatment of the drama and adapted the traditional choreography to fit a score that excluded all the added passages not by Adam. The dramatic qualities were intensified by setting it against a background of medieval superstition.

COMPOSER: Adolphe Adam, arranged by Humphrey Searle
SCENARIO: Theophile Gautier, Vernoy de Saint Georges, Jean Coralli
CHOREOGRAPHY: Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, reproduced by Joyce Graeme
PRODUCTION: Peter Darrell
DESIGNER: Peter Cazalet
LIGHTING: John B Read
GUEST ARTIST: Joyce Graeme
CASTING: Elaine McDonald, Brian Burn, Patricia Rianne with Gordon Aitken, Michael Beare, Sally Collard-Gentle, Hilary Debden, Caroline Douglas, Terence James, Ashley Killar and dancers of Scottish Theatre Ballet

Garden Party

22^nd June 1971, Coliseum Theatre, London

Part of a Charity Gala to raise funds to prevent a Titian painting from being sold overseas

COMPOSER: J S Bach, chosen by Diaghilev, Benois and Nijinsky in 1913, orchestrated by Richard Stoker. Dame Margot Fonteyn's solo played by Christopher Hogwood on a mother-of-pearl harpsichord.

The ballet was preceded by an introduction in the form of a Magic Lantern Show.

SCENARIO: Richard Buckle
DECOR: Andy Warhol
COSTUMES: Richard Buckle
CASTING: Margot Fonteyn and Christine Aitken, Graham Bart, Kama Dev, Shirley Grahame, Hugh Halliday, Terry Hayworth, Sally Inkin, Donald Kirkpatrick, Jeanetta Lawrence, Peter O'Brien, Andre Prokovsky, Galina Samsova, Wayne Sleep, Helen Starr

Othello

17^th November 1971, New London Ballet. Trieste; 16^th September 1976, The Scottish Ballet; 19^th June 1978, Irish National Ballet; 1978 Malmö Ballet; 1982 Athens; 7^th October 1985, London City Ballet; 1990 Cisne Negro Compania de Dança, Brazil; 23^rd March 1993, NAPAC, Durban

Darrell has taken Shakespeare's classic tragedy and conceived a powerful and dramatic one-act ballet.

COMPOSER: Franz Liszt (A Faust Symphony: 1^st Movement)
DESIGNER: Peter Farmer (New London Ballet, The Scottish Ballet); Patrick Murray (Irish National Ballet) Abelado Gonzales (Malmö Ballet); Peter Cazalet (NAPAC);
DECOR: Murilo Sola,
COSTUMES: Murilo Sola, Arlene Leao (Cisne Negro Compania de Danca)
CASTING: Galina Samsova, Andre Prokovsky with John Fletcher, Jorge Salavisa, Helen Starr (New London Ballet); Andrea Durant, Graham Bart with Simon Laing, Patricia Merrin, Nigel Spencer (The Scottish Ballet)

1970 - 1972