Pomona (1930)

Ballet in one act by Thomas McGreevy

MUSIC

Constant Lambert (ballet, 1926)

SCENERY & COSTUMES

John Banting

DANCERS

Pomona: Anna Ludmilla; Vertumnus: Anton Dolin; Attendants on Vertumnus: Walter Gore, Jack Spurgeon; Principal Nymphs: Doris Sonne, Marie Nielson; Nymphs: Wendy Toye, Joy Newton, Beatrice Appleyard, Iris James, Anna Brunton, Elisabeth Schooling; Flamen Pomonalis (High Priest): Philip McNair

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Camargo Society, Cambridge Theatre, London, 19 October 1930

Announced for presentation by both the Ballet Club and Vic- Wells Ballet in 1931, but not given

New Stagings / Productions

International Society of Contemporary Music, 1931

STAGING

Annual Festival of International Society of Contemporary Music, Oxford, 24 July 1931

Vic-Wells Ballet, 1933

NEW PRODUCTION

Vic-Wells Ballet

SCENERY & COSTUMES

Vanessa Bell

DANCERS

Pomona: Beatrice Appleyard; Vertumnus: Anton Dolin

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 17 January 1933

Vic-Wells Ballet, 1937

NEW PRODUCTION

Vic-Wells Ballet

SCENERY & COSTUMES

John Banting

DANCERS

Pomona: Margot Fonteyn; Vertumnus: Robert Helpmann

FIRST PERFORMANCE

Arts Theatre, Cambridge, 3 June 1937
Sadler’s Wells Theatre, London, 28 September 1937
(Pas de deux danced by Margot Fonteyn and Robert Helpmann at Nijinsky Gala Matinee, His Majesty’s Theatre, London, 28 May 1937)

BBC Television, 1937

STAGING

BBC Television; solo (Pastorale) only

DANCERS

Margot Fonteyn

FIRST PERFORMANCE

10 June 1937