The music of Job was first performed in concert form at the Norwich Festival in 1930, with Vaughan Williams conducting. This was followed in 1931 by the first stage production given for the Camargo Society at the Cambridge Theatre, London, followed by the first public performance at the Sadler's Wells Theatre later that year. Keynes had proposed the original idea and written a libretto, while Ninette de Valois choreographed the ballet and Gwendolen Raverat was responsible for set design and costumes. Vaughan Williams had scored his setting for a full symphony orchestra, but the musical director for Sadler's Wells, Constant Lambert, also produced a version for small theatre orchestras.