08 January 1755
Event Information
Theatre:
Covent Garden
Theatrical Season:
1754-1755
Volume:
4
Comments:
Benefit for the Lying-In Hospital for Married Women, in Brownlow Street, Long Acre. [On 18 Jan. appeared in the Public Advertiser the Occasional Epilogue]: @After this bounteous, well-intentioned play@You think I'm come to banter all away;@To mock the soft compassion in the breast,@And turn at once all charity to jest...@Tir'd of such arts, I'm now so serious grown@I mean to speak plain sentiments alone.@ [Then addressing each part of the house, with appropriate comment--and a good deal of banter--she praises marriage as an institution, and this hospital as an aid.] @Methinks I spy some amorous pairs above [to upper gallery]@Drawn here by tender flames of mutual love.@Close pack'd they sit,-and woo with secret squeeze,@With conscious elbows, sympathetic knees.@Go on my friends,-true to connubial law,@And leave to us the Women in the straw.
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Suspicious Husband
Comments:
As17541004, but with an Occasional Epilogue-Mrs Woffington.
As17541004, but with an Occasional Epilogue-Mrs Woffington.
Cast:
- Role: with an Occasional Epilogue Actor: Mrs Woffington.
- Role: Ranger Actor: Dyer
- Role: Strictland Actor: Ridout
- Role: Frankly Actor: Ryan
- Role: Bellamy Actor: Gibson
- Role: Meggot Actor: Cushing
- Role: Simson Actor: Wignell
- Role: Tester Actor: Collins
- Role: Buckle Actor: Anderson
- Role: Lucetta Actor: Mrs Pitt
- Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Barrington
- Role: Jacyntha Actor: Mrs Vincent
- Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Hamilton
- Role: With a Country dance Actor: the character of the play.
Afterpiece
Title:
The Cheats of Scapin
Comments:
Scapin-Shuter, first time; Thrifty-Bennet; Gripe-Costollo; Leander-Gibson; Octavian-Anderson; Shift-Dunstall; Sly-R. Smith; Clara-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Mrs Baker.
Scapin-Shuter, first time; Thrifty-Bennet; Gripe-Costollo; Leander-Gibson; Octavian-Anderson; Shift-Dunstall; Sly-R. Smith; Clara-Mrs Vincent; Lucia-Mrs Baker.