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Title: ROMEO AND JULIET STAGE REHEARSAL

Reference number: 11284

Date: 1980sc

Sound: sound

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 44.38 mins

Description: A recording of a stage rehearsal of John Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet by Scottish Ballet, with piano accompaniment, recorded at the Liverpool Empire in the 1980s [exact date of recording as yet unconfirmed]

The well-known story of Romeo and Juliet tells the tale of two young people whose chance of love and happiness is destroyed by the bitter feuding of their families (ended only by the lovers’ death) and unhappy twists of fate.

See also refs. 11276, 11283 and 11285

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: [Choreographer: John Cranko
Composer: Sergei Prokofiev
Reproduced and staged by: Georgette Tsinguirides
Design: Jurgen Rose
Lighting: Graham Large]

Shotlist: Act One scenes 4-6: 00:08-17:34

Act Two scene 1 (Tarantella): 17:35-37:47

Act Three scene 1 (Pas de Deux): 37:48-44:33