Harlequin in the Street (1937)

A New Ballet by André Derain

MUSIC

Francis Couperin, arranged by Constant Lambert

SCENERY

André Derain

DANCERS

A Pedestrian: Lionel Dixon; A Knife-Grinder: Ivor Harries; A Bread Man: Hedley Briggs; Three Gossips: Peggy van Praagh, Susan Reeves, Mary Skeaping; Harlequin: Stanley Judson; A Bourgeois Gentilhomme: Michael Martin-Harvey; A Marquise: Chrysagon Vaughan; Two Porters: George Welford, Donald Hewett

FIRST PERFORMANCE

As a curtain raiser to Le Misanthrope by Jean-Baptiste Molière, Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 8 February 1937
Ambassadors Theatre, London, 23 February 1937, with Alan Carter as Harlequin


See 1938, Harlequin in the Street