1951 – Premiere of Peter Darrell’s Midsummer Watch by Ballet Workshop

Midsummer Watch was Peter Darrell’s first ballet, made for Ballet Workshop at the Mercury Theatre and the Festival of Britain. The story is of Zoe, Phoebe and the Shepherds in a charmingly rural setting. The ballet had music by Hugo Alfvén and designs by Kenneth MacMillan, Darrell’s colleague at Sadler’s Wells Theatre, working under the pseudonym Kenneth Aadams. The cast included Peter Darrell, Sonya Hana, Tony Matteuz and Maureen Swanson.