A ballet by Gavin Gordon after William Hogarth.
With Donald Britton, Elizabeth Anderton, Brian Shaw, Gerd Larsen and full company
Music, Gavin Gordon
recorded by Covent Garden Orchestra
Leader, Charles Taylor
Conducted by John Lanchbery
Costumes and scenery, Rex Whistler after William Hogarth

The Rake's Progress is based on Hogarth's cautionary tale in pictures. In five scenes it tells how the Rake, an 18th-century profligate, tumbles from fashionable ease to the madhouse through wine, women, and cards.

Scene 1: The Rake's Levee
Scene 2: A Tavern
Scene 3: The Rake in Debt
Scene 4: A Gambling House
Scene 5: The Madhouse

Previously shown on October 30, 1961