Alexander Roy London Ballet Theatre, March 1987

2 performances of Coppelia. Dr Coppelius, a doll maker has constructed a doll so life like that everyone seeing it on his balcony imagines it to be a beautiful girl. Swanilda is jealous when her fiance Franz falls in love with Coppelia. One day the doll maker loses his key and Swanilda finds it and enters the workshop with her friends. The return of Coppelius causes the flight of the intruders except Swanilda who hides in a cupboard and takes Coppelia’s place. Franz also enters the workshop. Coppelius drugs him and tries to bring Coppelia to life with the boy’s spirit. Alexander Roy himself plays the aged Dr Coppelius.