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Yeats, William Butler. Four Plays for Dancers. London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1921. Lacking dust jacket. Signed on the inside by Sara Payne, and by the original owner of the book, Abbey Theatre actor Joseph O’Neill. The pages contain handwritten annotations for possible movement and sound direction, and the players’ cues for the play At the Hawks Well.

Book originally belonging to Sara Payne.

As N43/1/1, with handwritten corrections and additions by Sara Payne.

Programme of a matinee performance by the Abbey Theatre School of Ballet at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Theme Classique; Prelude; The New Hat; Serenade; A Study in Plastic Movement; Once Upon a Time; Suite de Danses; When the Cat’s Away; Pas de Trois; Russian Court Dance; When Philidda Flouts Him; Ballet Suite from Carmen; Holiday; Prelude Oriental and Fedelma.

Flyer promoting a programme of ballet presented by The Payne School of Dance and Mime at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Coppelia; Fair Rosamund; Phillida Flouts Me; Irish Scena and a new Irish ballet, The Scarecrow.

Programme of performances by Sara Payne Ballet at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included The Scarecrow; Lusmore; Dances; Faust; Doomed Cuchullan; Table d’Hote Or…; A Fiddler’s Story and The Snow Queen.

Programme of performances of James Bridie’s play Tobias and the Angel at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. Among the actors was Sara Payne, who performed the dances in the play.

Programme of performances of ballets directed by Sara Payne at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included Doomed Cuchulain; Pas de Trois from Swan Lake; Nautch Dance; Villikins, the Ratcatcher’s Daughter; The Sugar-Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker; Mazurka from Coppelia; Polka; Waltz from Les Sylphides; Farewell and Adieu/ Stormalong/ A’Roving/ Fire Down Below; Ballet for the Opera Faust and Ballet Atha Cliath.

Programme of performances of Molière’s classic comédie-ballet Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The dancers included Sara Payne, who was also responsible for the choreography.

Programme of performances of ballets directed by Sara Payne at the Gate Theatre, Dublin. The repertoire included The Snow Queen; Spanish Dance; Folk Songs; Liebeslieder; Pas de Trois from Swan Lake; Sea Shanties and The Scarecrow.