Thursday 15 September 2016
PLEASE DO NOT VIEW THIS CAST
SHEET DURING A PERFORMANCE
Wink
Music Jakub Ciupinski
Choreography Jessica Lang
Sets Mimi Lien
Costumes Elaine Garlick and Suzanne
Parkinson
Lighting Peter Teigen
Samara Downs, Reina Fuchigami,
Jade Heusen, Yvette Knight,
Delia Mathews
Mathias Dingman, Brandon Lawrence,
Rory Mackay, Lachlan Monaghan ,
Lewis Turner
Wink features William Shakespeare’s
sonnets 43, 30, 64, 40, 71
Sonnets read by Alfie Jones
INTERVAL
The Moor’s Pavane
Variations on the theme of Othello
Music Henry Purcell arranged by
Simon Sadoff
Choreography José Limón (© José Limón
Dance Foundation, Inc.)
Direction & reconstruction Jennifer Scanlon
Designs Pauline Lawrence
Lighting Peter Teigen after the original design
by Tom Skelton
The Moor Tyrone Singleton
The Moor’s Wife Delia Mathews
His Friend Iain Mackay
His Friend’s Wife Samara Downs
INTERVAL
The Dream
Music Felix Mendelssohn, arranged by
John Lanchbery
Choreography Frederick Ashton
Designs Peter Farmer
Lighting John B. Read
Oberon César Morales
Titania Momoko Hirata
Changeling Indian Boy Rory Flynn
Puck Mathias Dingman
Bottom Kit Holder
Rustics
Alexander Bird, Feargus Campbell,
Max Maslen, Valentin Olovyannikov,
Lewis Turner
Hermia Samara Downs
Lysander Tom Rogers
Helena Laura Purkiss
Demetrius Tyrone Singleton
Cobweb Arancha Baselga
Peaseblossom Maureya Lebowitz
Moth Angela Paul
Mustardseed Ruth Brill
Fairies Artists of Birmingham Royal Ballet
Rory Flynn is a Manchester Junior Associate of the Royal Ballet
School; Alfie Jones is a member of Playbox Theatre, Warwick
Royal Ballet Sinfonia
Conductor Paul Murphy
Leader Robert Gibbs
Approximate timings
Wink 27 minutes
Interval 20 minutes;
The Moor’s Pavane 23 minutes
Interval 20 minutes
The Dream 54 minutes
This performance will end at
approximately 10pm
The Dream – The story
Oberon, King of the Fairies, has quarrelled with his
Queen, Titania, because she will not yield to him
a changeling boy to be his page. While she sleeps,
Oberon plans his revenge by anointing her eyes with
a magic herb that will make her fall in love with the
first creature she sees. On waking, she falls in love with
Bottom, a rustic, who has been transformed by Puck
into an ass.
Two lovers, Hermia and Lysander, come to the
forest followed by Demetrius, to whom Hermia has
been promised by her father. Demetrius himself is
pursued by Helena, his former love. Oberon sees
them and orders Puck to drop the magic herb into
Demetrius’s eyes so that he will love Helena, but Puck
mistakes the two men and charms Lysander’s eyes
instead. Oberon himself anoints Demetrius’s eyes, so
both men fall in love with Helena, and Lysander now
spurns Hermia’s attentions.
Finally Oberon takes pity on the confused lovers
and, bringing them all together, releases Lysander from
the enchantment, restoring him to Hermia but leaving
Helena to Demetrius. He also removes the charm from
Titania’s eyes and, in her relief at being reconciled to
Oberon, she gives him her changeling boy. Bottom,
returned to human form but with dreamlike memories
of what has happened to him, goes on his puzzled way.
Birmingham Royal Ballet returns to The Lowry with
Cinderella
‘A banquet for the eyes’ the daily telegraph
1 – 4 March 2017
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