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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.\r\n\nIn the 1970s Leslie Hurry was working on designs for a production of <i>Macbeth</i> for William Gaskill at the Royal Court Theatre, London that was never realised.\r\n\r\n\r\n","physicalDescription":"Costume design for an unidentified, male character, in a probably unrealised production of <i>Macbeth</i> by William Shakespeare, created by Leslie Hurry, ca.1970. \r\n\r\nThe design shows a full length profile male figure. He is dressed in a dark short sleeved, asymmetrical brown, black and rust red patterned tunic. A cloak, patterned in the same style, but with highlights in yellow hangs down from his left shoulder. 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