Event Comment: Pepys, Diary: And then out to the
red bull (where I had not been since plays come up again)...where I was led by a seaman that knew me, but is here as a servant, up to the tireing-room, where strange the confusion and disorder that there is among them in fitting themselves, especially here, where the clothes are very poor, and the actors but common fellows. At last into the pitt, where I think there was not above ten more than myself, and not one hundred in the whole house. And the play, which is called
All's lost by Lust, poorly done; and with so much disorder, among others, that in the musique-room the boy that was to sing a song, not singing it right, his master fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house in an uprore.
Nicoll (
Restoration Drama, p. 309) argues that
George Jolly probably occupied the
red bull in
St John's Street,
Clerkenwell. When
Richard Walden saw the red bull players at
Oxford in July 1661,
Anne Gibbs acted
Dionysia in
All's Lost by Lust. It is possible that she played that role on this day. See Walden's
Io Ruminans, 1662
Performances
Mainpiece Title: All's Lost By Lust