A Little Winter Love
Set Design
1964 (made)
1964 (made)
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Set design by Leslie Hurry for Act II of A Little Winter Love by Alun Owen, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 1964.
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.
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.
Object details
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| Title | A Little Winter Love (generic title) |
| Materials and techniques | Pencil, ink and watercolour on paper |
| Brief description | Set design by Leslie Hurry for Act II of A Little Winter Love by Alun Owen, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 1964 |
| Physical description | Set design by Leslie Hurry for Act II of A Little Winter Love. Irregular-shaped platform, set for interior scenes. At right a sitting room, at left a smaller bedroom. The sitting room has a back wall containing two doors and a partition wall at left which divides the platform and contains one door. There is a sofa with a coffee table, an easy chair, a sideboard and a side table. The bedroom, only partially visible, contains a bed with a bedside table and a cabinet. The design is painted in shades of tan, red and grey. |
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| Credit line | Bequeathed by Dr Raymond Ingram |
| Summary | Set design by Leslie Hurry for Act II of A Little Winter Love by Alun Owen, Theatre Royal, Brighton, 1964. 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. |
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| Accession number | S.226-2018 |
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| Record created | August 6, 2018 |
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