TY - JOUR AB - In May 2019 an international cooperative of researchers, performers, and artists staged Vernon Lee’s (Violet Paget, 1856–1935) pacifist drama <i>The Ballet of the Nations: A Present-Day Morality</i> (1915) at her Villa Il Palmerino, Florence. The site-specific performance was adapted from Lee’s text by director Angeliki Papoulia and producer Federica Parretti, with a focus on the text’s resonances with the current resurgence of the nationalist far-right movements and anti-immigrant manifestos. This article considers the genesis of this production, the research informing its adaptation, and the subsequent performance of the piece.&nbsp; AU - Sally Blackburn-Daniels DA - 2020/8// DO - 10.16995/ntn.2931 IS - 30 VL - 2020 PB - Open Library of Humanities PY - 2020 TI - <i>A Present-Day Morality</i> for the Present Day T2 - 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century UR - http://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/2931/ ER -