11 January 1766
Event Information
Theatre:
Covent Garden
Theatrical Season:
1765-1766
Volume:
4
Comments:
Author's Day. [Publication of the play announced in the Public Advertiser this day, along with the following "puff" by Censor Dramaticus: "Sir: I have just given the new comedy, the Double Mistake, its first reading, and must confess I never was better pleased at a first reading than at present: It is chaste, sententious and genteel in its dialogue, interesting in its plot, the characters all of consequence, strongly marked and happily kept up, and even the virtuoso entertaining without being tiresome. I heartily wish it success, and congratulate the author on such a production, which shows that virtuous principles in high life render the persons that possess them doubly charming, and add real grace and dignity to their appearance in public life....I hope I may be believed when I say I have not the most distant knowledge of the author, and that impartiality shall ever be, and ever was my constant plan in observations of this kind."
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Double Mistake
Comments:
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Cast:
- Role: Parts Actor: Ross, Shuter, Dunstall, Cushing, Weller, Miss Wilford, Mrs Walker, Smith, Dyer, Hull, Holtom, Murden, Miss Macklin, Mrs Mattocks
- Role: Lord Belmont Actor: Ross
- Role: Sir Charles Somerville Actor: Smith
- Role: Mr Belmont Actor: Shuter
- Role: Elder Freeman Actor: Hull
- Role: Southerne Actor: Dunstall
- Role: Young Freeman Actor: Dyer
- Role: Emily Actor: Mrs Mattocks
- Role: Lady Mary Actor: Miss Macklin
- Role: Lady Louisa Actor: Miss Wilford
- Role: Lady Bridget Actor: Mrs Walker
- Role: Parts Actor: Cushing, Weller, Holtom, Murden.