Theatre
Creative Team
Choreographer
Eliot Feld
Lighting Designer
Costume Designer
Running Time
21 min
Music
Composer
Composition
Burlesque, TrV 145
Premiere
Date
April 24, 1971Location
Brooklyn Academy of Music (Brooklyn, NY)Company
American Ballet CompanyPremiere Cast
Credits & Notes
The program included the following poem by John Keats:
“I ask’d to see what things the hollow brain
Behind environed; what high tragedy
In the dark secret chambers of her skull
Was acting.”
Roles for Theatre include Pierrot, Arlecchino, Columbina, Pulcinello, Innamorate, Brighella, and Ladri.
Allen Lee Hughes did a new lighting design for a subsequent production of the ballet.
Theatre has also been in the repertory of American Ballet Theatre and Ballet Tech.
A subsequent production of Theatre was made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Columbina’s costume was rebuilt with a gift from Arlene C. Cooper.
Media
Copyright Notice
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