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Title: JEUX / OTHELLO

Reference number: 11265

Date: 1978c

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 48.52 mins

Description: Full performances of ballets 'Jeux' and 'Othello', both performed as part of Scottish Ballet's Spring Season in 1978.

Jeux is a one act ballet in which three people have been playing tennis but the game continues after the match is over. It was premiered by the Scottish Ballet 7 May 1963.

Othello: considered as one of the foremost exponents of the narrative ballet, Peter Darrell adapted Shakespeare’s classic tragedy into a powerful and dramatic one-act ballet. Iago, the key figure who allows tragic misunderstandings to flourish, brings about the story’s terrible conclusion. (STA SB Box 16/1b)

A programme for Jeux at the Theatre Royal Glasgow, 22 March-1 April 1978, is held by the Scottish Theatre Archive: STA SB 10/36c

A programme for Othello Theatre Royal Glasgow, 22 March-1 April 1978, is held by the Scottish Theatre Archive: STA SB 10/36d

Synopsis information taken from www.peterdarrell.org/content/works_1960s and www.peterdarell.org/content/works_1970s [last accessed December 2019]

See also refs. 11312 and 11313

Please note this is a copy of the raw capture of the original analogue video for preservation and as such may display defects such as dropout, washed out colour and sound fluctuation.

Credits: [Jeux:
Choreographer: Peter Darrell
Composer: Claude Debussy
Lighting: Charles Bristow

Othello:
Choreographer: Peter Darrell
Composer: Franz Liszt (A Faust Symphony – 1st Movement)
Design: Peter Farmer
Lighting: Peter Searle]

Shotlist: Jeux
Full performance of Jeux, a one act ballet in which three people have been playing tennis but the game continues after the match is over.

Performance: 1.36-19.18
Curtain call: 19.25-19.59

Othello
Full performance of Othello. Peter Darrell adapted Shakespeare’s classic tragedy into a powerful and dramatic one-act ballet.
21.17-48.11