 It was performed in New York in 1931 and then at the Cambridge Festival Theatre on 12 February 1934 (seven months after Terence Gray departed) in a programme of "experiments conducted by Joseph Gordon Macleod" which also included "Deirdre" by W.B.Yeats and "An Animation of a Lay of Horatius Cocles" by Thomas Babington, Lord Macaulay.For the Auden "charade" the actors in Cambridge were seated on chairs on both sides of the stage.The "actors" were Flavia du Pre, David Raven, Noel Iliff, Sanchia Robertson, Peter Hoar, Robert MacDermot, Don Gemmell, Else Bley, John Hamilton, David Marsh, John Izon, Clephan Bell, Garrett Jones, Diana Morgan, Cicely Nicks and Macleod as the "Chorus".