18 April 1748
Event Information
Theatre:
Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1747-1748
Volume:
4
Comments:
Benefit for Mr Luke? Sparks. Tickets and places to be had of Hobson at the stage door, and of Sparks at Courteen's Coffee-House in Bow St., Covent Garden. Dramatic Censor, I, 34-35: The whole part of the King, except his soliloquy, is truly wretched for an actor: and, to say truth, I never saw one who did not make a very insipid figure in it, the late Mr Sparks excepted; he was great in the formentioned soliloquy, respectable in every passage of the least regard, and so peculiarly happy in falling, when stabled, from the throne, that we may truly say, a good end apologized for a very bad character. Receipts: #150 (Cross); house charges, #63 (Powel); cash, #80 7s. 6d.; tickets, #91 5s. (Clay MS)
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
Hamlet
Comments:
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Cast:
- Role: Hamlet Actor: Barry.
- Role: Queen Actor: Mrs Pritchard.
- Role: King Actor: Sparks
- Role: Ghost Actor: Delane
- Role: Horatio Actor: Havard
- Role: Polonius Actor: Taswell
- Role: Laertes Actor: Blakes
- Role: Ostrick Actor: Neale
- Role: Lucianus Actor: Yates
- Role: Rosencraus Actor: Simpson
- Role: Guildenstern Actor: Usher
- Role: Gravediggers Actor: Macklin, Ray
- Role: Marcellus Actor: Bransby
- Role: Bernardo Actor: Marr
- Role: Player King Actor: Winstone
- Role: Player Queen Actor: Mrs Yates
- Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Clive
Afterpiece
Title:
The Double Disappointment
Comments:
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Cast:
- Role: Loveless Actor: Lowe
- Role: Gripe Actor: Arthur
- Role: Isabel Actor: Mrs Mozeen.
- Role: Phelim Actor: Barrington
- Role: Marquis de Fanfaron Actor: Blakes
Song
Comment:
III: Sullivan
Dance
Comment:
V: Comic Dance, as17480314