18 December 1789
Event Information
Theatre:
Covent Garden
Theatrical Season:
1789-1790
Volume:
5
Comments:
[The playbill announces The Way of the World, Love and War, and The Deserter, but "King being ill, the play was worse. For instead of Congreve's brilliant dialogue in The Way of the World there was, what few epithets can reach, The Castle of Andalusia" (World, 19 Dec.). The substitute for Love and War is listed in the Account-Book.] Receipts: #140 18s. (136.16; 4.2)
Performance List
Mainpiece
Afterpiece
Title:
The Death of Captain Cook
Comments:
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Cast:
- Role: Terreeobo Actor: Blurton
- Role: Pareea Actor: Byrne
- Role: Koah Actor: Delpini
- Role: Captain Cook Actor: Cranfield
- Role: His Lieutenant Actor: Evatt
- Role: Priest Actor: Darley
- Role: Lieutenant of the Marines Actor: Ratchford
- Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.