Costume design by Leslie Hurry for Robert Eddison as Trinculo in Shakespeare's The Tempest, produced by Oliver Neville for the Old Vic Theatre, London, 1962.

Leslie Hurry (1909-1978) trained at the Royal Academy and during the 1930s became known as a surrealist painter. A one-man show in London in 1942 was seen by the theatre director, Michael Benthall, who recommended Hurry to the dancer and choreographer, Robert Helpmann, then planning a ballet based on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The success of his designs set Hurry on a second career as one of the most distinguished theatre designers of his generation. He designed operas, ballets and plays, notably Swan Lake for the Sadler's Wells Ballet in 1943, a production which stayed in the repertoire for thirty years; Venice Preserv'd for Peter Brook (1953); the Ring Cycle at Covent Garden (1954), and Troilus and Cressida at Stratford for Peter Hall (1960), famous for being staged in a sand pit.

This production of The Tempest opened on 29 May 1962. W.A. Darlington in The Daily Telegraph 30 May 1962 singled out Eddison's 'whimpering, plaintive Trinculo' as one of the highlights of the production.