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258 results for: Keyword - Aesop
We found 192 matches on Roles/Actors, 96 matches on Performance Title, 80 matches on Performance Comments, 5 matches on Event Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

1
16 March 1708 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Cibber; Governor-Norris; Oronces-Mills; Senator-Estcourt; Roger-Cross; Sir Polidorous and Quaint-Penkethman; Innkeeper-Fairbank; Euphronia-Mrs Oldfield; Doris-Mrs Saunders; Hortensia-Mrs Moore.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Cibber

2
03 November 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Cibber.

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Song: As17241020

3
28 November 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shepard

4
07 December 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quin; Learchus-Hippisley; Oronces-Walker; Roger-Bullock; Quaint-Spiller; Polidorus-Diggs; Euphronia-Mrs Younger; Hortensia-Mrs Parker; Doris-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa

5
25 November 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

6
09 January 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quin; Learchus-Hippisley; Oronces-Walker; Hogstye-Diggs; Roger-Bullock; Quaint-Spiller; Fop-W. Bullock; Hortensia-Mrs Berriman; Doris-Mrs Egleton; Euphronia-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quin

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Rawlinson, who never appeared on any Stage before

Dance: new Dance of Moors-Glover, Lally, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Ogden

7
13 September 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quin; Learchus-Hippisley; Oronces-Walker; Hogstye-Morgan; Roger-Bullock; Quaint-Spiller; Fop-W. Bullock; Hortensia-Mrs Berriman; Doris-Mrs Egerton; Euphronia-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quin

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; French Peasant-Poitier, Mrs Bullock

8
22 November 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Cibber.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: Perseus and Andromeda

9
20 October 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quin; Learchus-Hippisley; Oronces-Walker; Polydorus-Lacy; Quaint-Penkethman; Roger-Bullock; Hortensia-Mrs Hallam; Doris-Mrs Egleton; Euphronia-Mrs Younger.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

10
05 January 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quin; Learchus-Griffin; Oronces-Mills; Doris-Mrs Clive; Euphronia-Mrs Mills; Sir Polidorus-Cibber; Quaint-Macklin; Fruitful-Miller; Roger-Harper; Hortensia-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Grace.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Burgomaster Trick'd

11
08 November 1738 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quin; Learchus-Griffin; Doris-Mrs Clive; Sir Polidorus-Macklin; Oronces-Mills; Fruitful-Ray; Quaint-Winstone; Roger-Shepard; Euphronia-Mrs Mills; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Grace; Hortensia-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: Robin Goodfellow

Ballet: III: A Comic Ballet called Double Jealousy. Miller-Poitier (the first time of his appearing on that stage these two years); Miller's Wife-Mlle Roland; Coquette-Mrs Walter

12
04 October 1739 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quin; Learchus-Griffin; Doris-Mrs Clive; Sir Polidorus-Macklin; Oronces-Mills; Fruitful-Ray; Quaint-Yates; Roger-Reed; Tradesmen-Turbutt, Raftor; Euphronia-Mrs Mills; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Grace; Hortensia-Mrs Bennet.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Harlot's Progress

Dance: I: Le Provencale-Mlle Chateauneuf; IV: Turkish Dance-Muilment; V: Tambourine-Mlle Chateauneuf

13
25 October 1740 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Paget; Learchus-Julian; Oronces-Wallis; Quaint-Yates; Sir Polidorus-Dunstall; Euphronia-Mrs Dunstall; Doris-Mrs Middleton.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Paget

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Dance: As17401024

14
04 May 1742 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Bridgwater; Learchus-Hippisley; Beau-Chapman; Hogstye-Woodward; Hortensia-Mrs Horton; Oronces-Hale; Roger-Marten; Quaint-James; Fruitful-Vaughan; Tradesmen-Stoppelaer, Smith; Euphronia-Mrs Hale; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Martin; Dorio-Mrs Pritchard; With a Prologue-; Epilogue-; Songs proper to the Occasion-.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

Song: Songs in Masonry-Salway, Bencraft; Arra my Judy (by desire)-Stoppelaer

Entertainment: CCries of London-Salway

Dance: PPantaloon and Enamorata, as17420420

15
22 October 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Bridges; Learchus-Taswell; Oronces-W. Giffard; Sir Polidorus-Yates; Roger-Neale; Quaint-Winstone; Fruitful-Ray; Tradesman-Morgan; Priest-Usher; Euphronia-Mrs Ridout; Hortensia-Mrs Bennet; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Egerton; Doris-Mrs Roberts.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Bridges

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Song: I, III: Sullivan

Dance: II, IV: As17431018

16
09 December 1743 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quinn; Learchus-Hippisley; Oronces-Hale; Hogstye-Woodward; Roger-Marten; Quaint-James; Steward-Anderson; Fruitful-Dunstall; Tradesman-Stoppelaer; Hortensia-Mrs Horton; Euphronia-Mrs Hale; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Martin; Doris-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quinn

Afterpiece Title: The Lottery

Dance: SScotch Dance, as17431124

17
12 December 1744 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Quin; Learchus-Hippisley; Hogstye-Woodward; Oronces-Hale; Hortensia-Mrs Horton; Euphronia-Mrs Hale; Roger-Marten; Quaint-James; Steward-Anderson; Fruitful-Dunstall; Tradesman-Stoppelaer; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Martin; Doris-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quin

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

18
21 January 1748 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Bridgwater; Learchus-Collins; Oronces-Gibson; Sir Polydore-Dunstall; Roger-Morgan; Quaint-James; Fruitful-Paddick; Euphronia-Mrs Hale; Hortensia-Mrs Horton; Doris-Mrs Dunstall; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Bridges.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: Tea

19
22 January 1753 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Aesop-Bridgwater; Learchus-Collins; Oronces-Usher; Hogstye-Dunstall; Quaint-Cushing; Roger-Arthur; Fruitful-Paddick; Euphronia-Mrs Barrington; Hortensia-Mrs Vincent; Doris-Miss Pitt; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Bambridge; Tradesmen-Stoppelaer, Redman.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Sorcerer

20
19 December 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Afterpiece Title: AEsop

Performance Comment: AEsop-Henderson; Beau-Dodd; Roger-Moody; Learches-Parsons; Oronces-Farren; Sir Polidorus Hogstye-Yates; Euphronia-Mrs Brereton; Doris-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: AEsop Actor: Henderson

21
December 1696 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Edition of 1697: Prologue-; Aesop-Cibber; Learchus-Dogget; Oronces-Harland; Euphronia-Mrs Temple; Doris-Mrs Verbruggen; Country Tradesmen-Pinkerman, Smeaton; Roger-Haynes; Quaint-Pinkerman; Fruitful-Smeton; Country Gentleman-Pinkerman; Hortentia-Mrs Kent; Aminta-Mrs Willis; Forge Will-Mrs Finch; Mrs Fruitful-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Cibber

22
05 December 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Learcus-Dogget; Aesop-Cibber; Sir Pollidorus-Pinkethman; Beau-Pack; Fruitful-Norris; Oronces-Bullock Jr; Euphronia-Mrs Santlow; Hortentia-Mrs Porter; Doris-Mrs Saunders.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Cibber

23
24 September 1733 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Performance Comment: Daily Post missing, but Genest, III, 407, lists: Aesop-Bridgwater; Learchus-Aston; Sir Polidorus-Topham; Doris-Miss Raftor; Hortensia-Mrs Horton; Euphronia-Miss Holliday. hathi.
Cast
Role: : Aesop Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

24
01 February 1744 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Written by Sir John VanBrugh. Last night their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince George and Prince Edward were at the Theatre Royal in Covent Garden to see the Comedy of Aesop and the Rape of Proserpine.-London Daily Post and General Advertiser

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Aesop

Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: Quinn

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

25
07 April 1741 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Lethe; or, Aesop in the Shades

Performance Comment: Aesop-W. Giffard; Drunken Man-Giffard; Lucy-Miss Hippisley; with The Life of a Belle-.
Cast
Role: Aesop Actor: W. Giffard

Dance: III: Scots Dance-Mrs Bullock; V: Hornpipe-Yates