Title: Checkmate/Symphonic Variations/Adam Zero
Date: Monday 2nd February 1948, Evening
Type: Ballet
Company: Sadler’s Wells Ballet
Location: Royal Opera House, London, England
Composer: Arthur Bliss (Checkmate, Adam Zero), César Franck (Symphonic Variations)
Choreographer: Ninette de Valois (Checkmate), Frederick Ashton (Symphonic Variations), Robert Helpmann (Adam Zero)
Production: Original 1937 production (Checkmate), Original 1946 productions (Symphonic Variations, Adam Zero)
Conductor: Unknown
Collection Folder: Folder 3

Cast

Checkmate

Love: Jean Bedells
Death: Franklin White
Red Pawns: Margaret Dale, Avril Navarre, Jill Gregory, Anne Negus, Elizabeth Kennedy, Pauline Clayden, Guinevere Parry, Dorothea Zaymes
First Red Knight: Alexis Rassine
Second Red Knight: John Field
Black Knights: Richard Ellis, Philip Chatfield
Black Queen: Beryl Grey
Red Queen: Julia Farron
Red King: Leslie Edwards
Red Bishops: Paul Reymond, Henry Legerton
Red Castles: John Cranko, Kenneth Melville
Black Pawns: Gillian Lynne, Rosemary Lindsay, Lorna Mossford, Joan Grantham, Jean Stokes, Christine du Boulay, Palma Nye, Thekla Russell
Black Castles: David Davenport, Alfred Rodrique

Symphonic Variations

Dancers: Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes, Rosemary Lindsay, Alexander Grant, Moira Shearer, John Hart

Solo Pianist: Angus Morrison

Adam Zero

The Stage Director: David Paltenghi
The Choreographer (Creator and Destroyer): June Brae
The Principal Dancer (Adam Zero): Robert Helpmann
The Designer (His Fate): Jean Bedells
The Wardrobe Mistress (His Fate): Julia Farron
The Dresser (His Fate): Palma Nye
The Ballerina (His First Love, Wife and Mistress): June Brae
The Understudies (His Son and Daughter): Alexis Rassine, Gillian Lynne
The Character Dancers (His Cat and Dog): Pauline Clayden, Peter Clegg
The Mime (His Spiritual Advisor): Leslie Edwards
The Company: Dancers of Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Crew

For the Triple Bill

Costumes and Decor, Checkmate: E. McKnight Kauffer
Costumes and Decor, Symphonic Variations: Sophie Fedorovitch
Scenery and Costumes, Adam Zero: Roger Furse

Scenery Building, Checkmate: Edward Waldron
Scenery Painting, Checkmate: Jack Cross
Costume Execution, Checkmate, Symphonic Variations: Olivia Cranmer
Fabric Dyeing and Painting, Checkmate: Bettina Pacey, Barbara Ternouth
Headdress Making, Checkmate: Josef Roth, Anthony Martell
Property Making, Checkmate: Jack Lovell, Vic Drummond
Headdress Execution, Symphonic Variations: Hugh Skillen
Scenery Painting, Symphonic Variations: Edward Delaney

For the Sadler’s Wells Ballet

Director: Ninette de Valois
General Manager: Herbert Hughes
Ballet Mistress: Jean Bedells
Accompanists: Edna Downing, Ena Child
Assistant Ballet Mistress: Elizabeth Kennedy

For the Royal Opera House

General Administrator: David L. Webster
House Manager: Peter Waller
Box Office Manager: A.M. Wolstenholme
Stage Director: Henry Robinson
Stage Manager: Louis Yudkin
Chief Machinist: F. Ballard
Chief Engineer: Sydney T. Cheney
Property Master: Jack Lovell

Orchestra Leader: Joseph Shadwick
Conductors: Geoffrey Corbett, Hugo Rignold

Programme Printed By: Finden Brown & Co. Ltd., London