The ballet is built up in layers on the basis of a famous 1957 jazz suite. The musical subject is a selection of Shakespearean characters, which Peter Darrell choreographed with sharp-eyed satire and sparkling wit incorporating some of Ellington 's own comments as a spoken sound-track.

COMPOSERS: Duke Ellington / Billy Strayhorn, arranged by Paul Hart
CHOREOGRAPHY: Busby Berkeley (assisted by Peter Darrell)
GOWNS BY: Adrian (assisted by Bob Ringwood)
LIGHTING: Stanley McCandless (recreated by David Hersey)
CASTING: Gordon Aitken, Linda Aiming, Kenneth Burke, Roy Campbell-Moore, Sally Collard-Gentle, Linden Currey, Fiona Dear, Andrea Durant, Gwendoline Edmonds, Vincent Hantam, Michael Harper, Michael Hurran, Paulene Laverty, Kit Lethby, Christopher Long, Seonaid MacLeod, Elaine McDonald, Peter Maliek, Patricia Merrin, Eleanor Moore, Noriko Ohara, Wendy Roe, Peter Royston, Paul Russell, Kenneth Saunders, Nigel Spencer, Paul Tyers, Jonathan Williams

The tragic love story of Tristan and Iseult who having unknowingly taken a love potion are both led to deception and death.

COMPOSER: Franz Liszt
DESIGNER: Peter Farmer
CASTING: Galina Samsova, Alpo Pakarinen with Simon Laing, Peter Locke, Andy Norman, Penelope Wright

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald von Gluck
DESIGNER: Ingrid Rosell
DIRECTOR: Peter Ebert
CASTING: Janet Baker, Margaret Marshall, Marie McLoughlin
DANCERS: Christopher Blagdon, Elaine Bryce, Robert Hampton, Louise Hellewell, Paulene Laverty, Elspeth Shaw, Garry Trinder, Jonathan Williams

The story goes back to pre-pantomime days where (Cinderella is not the familiar kitchen maid, but rather a gentle and reflective creature, looked down on by her more glamorous and sophisticated step-sisters - whose ugliness lies within their self-centred characters. The period is late 19th century.

COMPOSER: Gioacchino Rossini, arranged by Bramwell Tovey (Excerpts from La Cenerentola and other operas, little known ballets and piano music)
DESIGNER: John Eraser
LIGHTING: John B. Read
CASTING: Elaine McDonald, Donald MacLeary, Patrica Merrin, Paul Russell with Gordon Aitken, William Bowen, Sue Carlton-Jones, Sally Collard-Gentle, Kit Lethby, Anna McCartney, Eleanor Moore, Jeanette Newell, Noriko Ohara, Linda Packer, Elizabeth Peden, Wendy Roe, Peter Royston, Kenneth Saunders, Nigel Spencer, Garry Trinder and dancers of The Scottish Ballet

Solo for Kenneth Burke as part of Maina Gielgud's "Steps Notes and Squeaks".