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RAD/2/MAC/3/1/39
Title
Sea of Troubles
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- 1987, undated (Creation)
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Two pages of typed letter, one design, one page of handwritten notes
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(1929-12-11 - 1992-10-29)
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Kenneth MacMillan created the one-act ballet Sea of Troubles for Dance Advance which premiered on 17.3.1988 at the Gardner Arts Centre at the University of Sussex. It is a distillation of Shakespeare's Hamlet and was designed by Deborah MacMillan. The material comprises:
- One two-page typed letter from Martin D. Pring enclosing tapes of musical possibilities for the ballet, including pieces by Botislavu Martinu, Anton Webern, Alban Berg, Charles Ives and Dmitri Shostakovitch, 27Oct1987
- One design by Deborah MacMillan for Sea of Troubles Curtain, with handwritten notes, initialled DM, on A4 paper with pencil sketch on reverse
- One page torn from a filo-fax with a handwritten list by Deborah MacMillan of costume and prop items required for the ballet
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- MacMillan, Kenneth (Subject)
- MacMillan, Deborah (Subject)
- Dance Advance (Subject)