Poster advertising Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre, Bloomsbury Theatre, 4-15 May 1982. The image on the poster shows Puck in Alexander Roy's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The Alexander Roy London Ballet drew on the creative partnership of Alexander Roy and Christina Gallea. They had mounted a concert programme, Soirée de Paris, in 1963-64, then re-named their group International Ballet Caravan in 1965 when it expanded into a small touring company, It finally became the Alexander Roy London Ballet from 1974. Roy was the director of the company throughout its existence, dancing with it and choreographing the bulk of the repertory. Christina Gallea was the company’s ballerina and associate director, and also supervised the lighting and costumes for many productions. It was a mixed international group which, over its existence, employed nearly 300 dancers. Its repertory consisted of original ballets by Alexander Roy, initially one-act pieces but, from 1980, full-evening works, the first and most successful of which was A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Anthony Crickmay, the photographer of this poster, began his career as an assistant to the Austrian portrait photographer, Lotte Meitner-Graf, who established a studio in London's Bond Street in the late 1940s. Crickmay set up his own studio in 1958 where he built up a high-profile range of sitters, including members of the royal family, and developed an international reputation as a photographer of theatre, opera, and especially dance.