Event Comment: [As afterpiece the playbill announces the 31st night of
The Touchstone (see 20 Feb.), but "The entertaiment at
Covent-garden theatre was obliged to be changed last night, on account of
Lee Lewes being seized with a most violent inflammation in his right arm...Hand-bills, announcing that
The Reprisal would be the farce, were distributed at each door of the theatre as the company came in; when the tragedy, however, was ended, some persons in the galleries...began an alarming disturbance, calling out vociferously for the pantomime...and continued throughout the farce to behave in the most savage manner, pelting every actor and actress as fast as either came on the stage.
Mrs Morton stood their fire of oranges, apples, and pieces of
wood, with more heroism than prudence. At length the brutes aimed at her head with an orange, which struck her a violent blow, and she fainted immediately" (
Morning Chronicle, 16 Feb.).
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore
Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal