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Choreographer: Christopher Bruce
Music arranger: Joan Baez
Set designer: Walter Nobbe
Costume designer: Walter Nobbe
Lighting designer: John B. Read
World premiere: 5 Oct 1984, Ballet Rambert, Marlowe Theatre
Music title: May Morning Dew/Sergeant Early's Dream; Eighteen Years Old; The Kylebrack Rambler/Ships are Sailing/Richard Dwyer's Geordie; Love will you Marry Me?/Plains of Boyle; Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair; Peggy Gordon; Gospel Ship; Lord Mayo/Junior Crehan's Favourite/Corny is Coming/Se Fadh Mo Bhuadhra
Music details: Live music: vocals, Uilleann pipes, whistles, bones, flutes, concertina, fiddle guitar and mandolin
Music note: The music is British, Irish and American folk songs. Joan Baez's arrangement of 'Geordie' by courtesy of the Carlin Music Corporation, London.
Sponsors: Revival production (1994): Rambert Dance Company would like to thank The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, for their generous support of the revival of 'Sergeant Early's Dream'.
Source: Programme and reference file in the Rambert Archive
Archive catalogue: WORK/0326