Performance Database

Alternative title: The Strike of Wives
Choreographer: Antony Tudor
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Set designer: William Chappell
Costume designer: William Chappell
World premiere: 20 Mar 1932, Ballet Club, Mercury Theatre, London
Production note: In the programme, the credit reads 'Costumes and setting designed by William Chappell'.
Music title: Piano Sonata No. 2 in D Minor (1912), Piano Sonata No. 4 in C Minor (1917)
Music details: Live music: piano
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0058

Performances

Date ↿⇂ Programme ↿⇂ Venue ↿⇂
20 Mar 1932
Evening
Aurora's Wedding | Lysistrata or The Strike of Wives* | Mars and Venus | Façade Mercury Theatre, London
5 Mar 1933
Evening
Lysistrata | Les Masques (ou, Changement de Dames)* | Le Spectre de la Rose | Foyer de Danse Mercury Theatre, London
4 Mar 1934
Evening
Mermaid* | Lysistrata | Les Sylphides Mercury Theatre, London
23 Feb 1937
Evening
Foyer de Danse | Cinderella | Lysistrata, The Strike of Wives | Death and the Maiden* | Bar aux Folies-Bergère Duchess Theatre, London
10 Jun 1937
Matinee
The Strike of Wives | Valse Romantique No. 2 (Chabrier) | Bluebird | Death and the Maiden | The Planets | La Muse s'Amuse | Valse Caprice (Rubenstein) | Capriol Suite Birmingham Repertory Theatre
10 Jun 1937
Evening
The Strike of Wives | Bluebird | Death and the Maiden | The Planets | La Muse s'Amuse | Valse Caprice (Rubenstein) | Capriol Suite Birmingham Repertory Theatre
3 Apr 1938
Evening
The Strike of Wives (Lysistrata) | Croquis de ''Mercure'' (Sketches for ''Mercury'') | La Muse s'Amuse | Pas de Deux from Casse-Noisette | Étrange | à La Russe* | à La Polka Mercury Theatre, London