28 May 1777
Event Information
Theatre:
Haymarket Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1776-1777
Volume:
5
Comments:
Mainpiece: A Tragedy for Warm Weather, written after the Manner of the Worst as well as the Best English Poets; containing, amongst a Variety of Particulars, the Rebellion of the Journeymen Tailors; their Military Preparations and Election of a Chief; their Skirmishes, Ambushes, Sieges, Councils and Combats; their Division into Flints and Dungs, with the Defection of the Dungs at the Pass of the Butcher-Row, and total Overthrow of the Flints at the Famous Battle of Temple-Bar; together with the Captivity and Fatal End of their Valiant Leader
Performance List
Mainpiece
Title:
The Tailors
Comments:
Master Tailors: Francisco-Parsons; Regniades-R. Palmer; Campbello-Bannister; Flints: Abrahamides (the Chief)-Palmer; Isaacos-Fearon; Jackides-Jackson; Barnardo-Davis; Dungs: Zacharydes-Egan; Timotheus-Stevens; Tailors' Ladies-Mrs GardnerMrs Love, Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Jewell; Genest, V, 582 specifies: Tittilinda-Mrs Gardner; Dorothea-Mrs Jewell. Prologue as17770515.
Master Tailors: Francisco-Parsons; Regniades-R. Palmer; Campbello-Bannister; Flints: Abrahamides (the Chief)-Palmer; Isaacos-Fearon; Jackides-Jackson; Barnardo-Davis; Dungs: Zacharydes-Egan; Timotheus-Stevens; Tailors' Ladies-Mrs GardnerMrs Love, Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Jewell; Genest, V, 582 specifies: Tittilinda-Mrs Gardner; Dorothea-Mrs Jewell. Prologue as17770515.
Cast:
- Role: Francisco Actor: Parsons
- Role: Regniades Actor: R. Palmer
- Role: Campbello Actor: Bannister
- Role: Abrahamides Actor: Palmer
- Role: Isaacos Actor: Fearon
- Role: Jackides Actor: Jackson
- Role: Barnardo Actor: Davis
- Role: Zacharydes Actor: Egan
- Role: Timotheus Actor: Stevens
- Role: Tailors' Ladies Actor: Mrs GardnerMrs Love, Miss Platt, Mrs Poussin, Mrs Jewell
- Role: Tittilinda Actor: Mrs Gardner
- Role: Dorothea Actor: Mrs Jewell. Prologue as17770515.
- Role: Principal Parts Actor: Aickin, Palmer, Jackson, Fearon, Massey, Egan, Davies, Mrs Hunter, Mrs Davies, Mrs Poussin, A Gentlewoman
- Role: Freeport Actor: Aickin
- Role: Spatter Actor: Palmer
- Role: Lord Falbridge Actor: Davies
- Role: Lady Alton Actor: Mrs Hunter
- Role: Molly Actor: Mrs Davies
- Role: Mrs Goodman Actor: Mrs Poussin
- Role: Amelia Actor: Mrs Armstead. Edition of 1767 lists the other parts: +Sir William Douglas, Owen, La France, Officer, Servants.
Afterpiece
Title:
Lilliput
Comments:
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