30 December 1762
Event Information
Theatre:
Covent Garden
Theatrical Season:
1762-1763
Volume:
4
Comments:
By Command of their Majesties. [This seems to be the night referred to by The Volunteer Manager in Theatrical Review of 1 January 1763 who condemns Miss Poitier's scandalous costume and indelicate actions: "Would any person suppose she could have the confidence to appear with her bosom so scandalously bare, that to use the expression of a public writer, who took some moderate notice of the circumstance, the breast hung flabbing over a pair of stays cut remarkably low, like a couple of empty bladders in an oil-shop. One thing the author of that letter has omitted, which, if possible is still more gross; and that is, in the course of Miss Poitier's hornpipe, one of her shoes happening to slipt down at the heel, she lifted up her leg, and danced upon the other till she had drawn it up. This had she worn drawers, would have been the more excusable; but unhappily, there was little occasion for standing in the pit to see that she was not provided with so much as a fig-leaf. The Court turned instantly from the stage-The Pit was astonished! and scarcely anything, but a disapproving murmur, was heard, from the most unthinking spectator in the twelvepenny gallery." Miss Poitier subsequently denied any impropriety in action, and sought hearing in the Theatrical Review. In the Volunteer Manager" section of the number for 1 March 1763 the editiors reaffirmed their stand on her indecency and refused to join further in a personal altercation.
Mainpiece
Title:
Love In A Village
Comments:
As17621229.
As17621229.
Cast:
- Role: Others Actor: Barrington, _Bennett.
- Role: Deborah Woodcock Actor: Mrs Pitt replaces Mrs Walker.
- Role: Hawthorn Actor: Beard
- Role: Justice Woodcock Actor: Shuter
- Role: Young Meadows Actor: Mattocks
- Role: Eustace Actor: Dyer
- Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Collins
- Role: Hodge Actor: Dunstall
- Role: Rosetta Actor: Miss Brent
- Role: Lucinda Actor: Miss Hallam
- Role: Margery Actor: Miss Davies
- Role: Dances Incident to the Opera Actor: Maranesi, Miss Twist.
Dance
Comment:
II: The Sicilian Peasants, as17621125; Hornpipe-Miss Poitier