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Le Cricket (Salaman, 1930). Photo © London News Agency Photos Ltd. RDC/PD/01/0034/01

Choreographer: Susan Salaman

Composer: Arthur Benjamin

Set designer: Susan Salaman

Costume designer: Susan Salaman

World premiere: 20 Dec 1930, Marie Rambert Dancers, Lyric Hammersmith, London

Work note: Performed as part of 'Sporting Sketches', or as a stand-alone divertissement.

Music details: Live music: piano

Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive

Archive catalogue: WORK/0034

Performances

Date ↿⇂	Programme ↿⇂	Venue ⇃⇂
14 Jun 1937 Evening	Our Lady's Juggler \| Valse Romantique No. 1 (Chabrier) \| L'Après-midi d'un faune \| Passionate Pavane \| Bluebird \| The Lady of Shalott \| Suite of Airs \| Death and the Maiden \| Valse Romantique No. 3 (Chabrier) \| Le Cricket \| Le Rugby	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
18 Jun 1937 Evening	Foyer de Danse \| Musical Interlude \| The Planets \| Mermaid \| Musical Interlude \| Le Cricket \| Le Rugby \| Le Boxing \| Death and the Maiden \| Musical Interlude \| Bar aux Folies-Bergère	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
19 Jun 1937 Evening	Foyer de Danse \| Musical Interlude \| The Planets \| Mermaid \| Musical Interlude \| Le Cricket \| Le Rugby \| Le Boxing \| Death and the Maiden \| Musical Interlude \| Bar aux Folies-Bergère	Birmingham Repertory Theatre
19 Feb 1937 Evening	The Descent of Hebe \| Mephisto Waltz \| Our Lady's Juggler \| Le Cricket \| Dark Elegies^* \| Bar aux Folies-Bergère	Duchess Theatre, London
20 Dec 1930 Evening	Carnaval^* \| Cricket^* \| Rugby \| A Florentine Picture^* \| Le Spectre de la Rose \| Les Sylphides \| Capriol Suite \| Shepherd's Hornpipe \| Fairy Tales from ''The Sleeping Beauty'' \| Mannequin \| Farrucca \| Final Galop	Lyric Hammersmith, London
22 Dec 1930 Evening	Carnaval \| Cricket \| Rugby \| A Florentine Picture \| Le Spectre de la Rose \| Les Sylphides \| Capriol Suite \| Shepherd's Hornpipe \| Fairy Tales from ''The Sleeping Beauty'' \| Mannequin \| Farrucca \| Final Galop	Lyric Hammersmith, London
3 Jan 1931 Evening	Carnaval \| Cricket \| Rugby \| A Florentine Picture \| Le Spectre de la Rose \| Les Sylphides \| Capriol Suite \| Shepherd's Hornpipe \| Fairy Tales from ''The Sleeping Beauty'' \| Mannequin \| Farrucca \| Final Galop	Lyric Hammersmith, London
5 Jan 1931 Evening	Carnaval \| Cricket \| Rugby \| A Florentine Picture \| Le Spectre de la Rose \| Les Sylphides \| Capriol Suite \| Primavera^* \| Fairy Tales from ''The Sleeping Beauty'' \| Mannequin \| Final Galop	Lyric Hammersmith, London
16 Feb 1931 Evening	Dances from Carnaval \| Le Cricket \| La Péri^* \| Russian Peasant Dance \| The Mannequin and her Beau \| Saudade do Brésil \| A Florentine Picture \| Le Boxing^* \| Aurora's Wedding	Mercury Theatre, London
20 Apr 1931 Evening	Les Sylphides \| Le Cricket \| Adagio from Lac des Cygnes \| L'Après-midi d'un faune^* \| Gavotte Sentimentale \| The Circus Girl^* \| Scherzo^* \| La Belle Ecuyère^* \| Mazurka des Hussars \| Mars and Venus	Mercury Theatre, London
7 Apr 1935 Evening	La Valse Chez Madame Récamier \| Le Cricket \| The Lady of Shalott \| The Descent of Hebe^* \| Bar aux Folies-Bergère	Mercury Theatre, London
6 Jul 1940 Matinee	Les Sylphides \| Le Cricket \| Le Rugby \| Le Boxing \| Lady into Fox \| Gala Performance^*	Theatre Royal, Brighton

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