1940-05-13

Performance Date(s):

Monday, May 13, 1940

Tuesday, May 14, 1940

Wednesday, May 15, 1940

Thursday, May 16, 1940

Friday, May 17, 1940

Saturday, May 18, 1940

Known Number of Performances:

Programme Text:

[…]
Monday, 13th May, 1940, and following nights at 8.15

FIRST PRODUCTION OF
BIRTH OF A GIANT
A Play in Three Acts by NORA MacADAM.
[…]
Eight Minutes between Acts I. and II. Twelve Minutes between Acts II. and III. and Ten Minutes between the Play and the Ballet.

THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA
Choreography―Cepta Cullen
Music―Moszkowski
Costumes―Terry and Michael Clarke.
[…]

ORCHESTRA
F. M. MAY, Mus. Bac., Director Piano
ALICE MacCARTHY Violin
DOROTHY CLIFTON ‘Cello

The Orchestra will perform the following selections:
Overture Il Tancredi Rossini (1792-1868)
Irish Airs Suite of Airs arr. Julia Gray
Ballet Les Petits Riens Mozart (1756-1791)
Excerpts (a) Nocturne Ernest Bloch (b) Scherzo John Ireland

View the cast and creative personnel for this performance on the Abbey Archive:

http://www.abbeytheatre.ie/archives/production_detail/1718

Location of original programme:

Abbey Theatre Archive: ATA MPG VOL 39/1940

View this programmes' parent collection on the Concert Programmes Database:

http://www.concertprogrammes.org.uk/html/search/verb/GetRecord/8209

Musical Director(s):

May, Frederick (1911-1985)

Composer(s):

Bloch, Ernest (1880-1959)

Gray, Julia

Ireland, John (1879-1962)