*p1776 01 13 dl Epicoene; or, The Silent Woman. Parts by: King, Bensley, Palmer, Parsons, Brereton, Baddeley, Davies, Yates, Mrs Hopkins, Miss Sherry, Mrs Davies, Miss Platt, Mrs Millidge, and Mrs Siddons. With a <i>New Occasional Prologue</i>-Palmer; Morose-Bensley; Truewit-Palmer; Sir Amorous-King; Capt. Otter-Yates; Sir John Daw-Parsons; Cutbeard-Baddeley; Dauphine-Brereton; Clerimont-Davies; Mrs Otter-Mrs Hopkins; Lady Haughty-Miss Sherry; Centaur-Mrs Davies; Mavis-Miss Platt; Trusty-Mrs Millidge; Epicoene-Mrs Siddons ($Genest=, V, 484).*a1776 01 13 dl The Jubilee. ^As17751227^.*c1776 01 13 dl Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years. [See 11 Nov. 1752.] Characters New Dressed in the Habits of the Times. This play is alter'd by $Mr Colman= and receiv'd with Some Applause, but it don't seem to hit the present Taste a few hisses at the End (<i>Hopkins Diary</i>). [$MacMillan='s note from $Kemble= differs slightly.] Paid salary list #630 1s. 6d.; $Widow Hunter= #2 2s.; $King='s glass bill #3 17s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). [Mainpiece reviewed and contrasted with the original in the <i>Westminster Magazine</i> for Jan.: "Upon the whole we cannot esteem this a striking comedy, even with the assistance it has now received,--the fine manner in which it is got up, and the great expence which the managers have been at in habiting the whole dramatis personae in splendid and characteristic Old <i>English dresses</i>. All the actors except $Mr King= and $Mr Parsons= performed but indifferently. $Bensley= is the worst <i>Old Man</i>r we ever saw. He presents the countenace of a sickly old woman; and the uniform goggle of his eye, by which he means to express infirmity and distress is the look of a man in anguish from the colic. $Mr Palmer=, $Mr Brereton=, and $Mr Davis= have a bloated vulgarity about them, which should ever deter the manager from assigning them the parts of cavaliers or men of fashion. $Baddeley=, as usual, overdid his part, and $Mr Yates=, as usual, was not very perfect in his."] Receipts: #192 11s. (Treasurer's Book).