*p1778 07 30 chr The Merchant of Venice. Shylock-Machin; Launcelot-Everard; Jessica-Mrs Nost; Portia-Miss Taylor.*a1778 07 30 chr The Old Maid.*c1778 07 30 chr [These performances were held in a temporary booth erected following the destruction of the theatre by fire (see 26 June). In August <i>King Lear</i>, with $Everard= as <i>Lear</i>r and $Cooke= as <i>Edgar</i>r, was acted here three times [$Edward Cape Everard=, <i>Memoirs of an Unfortunate Son of Thespis</i> [<i>Edinburgh</i>, 1018], p.78). Everard states that the booth was kept open for about six weeks, but no further records of what was acted have survived.]