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4321 results for: Keyword - Bannister</i>.] Half past six went into ye <span class=
We found 2297 matches on Performance Comments, 2246 matches on Event Comments, 404 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1951
26 February 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Shepherdess

1952
16 April 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: And my wife being gone abroad with W. Hewer, to see the new play to-day, at the Duke of York's house, Guzman, I dined alone.... I thence presently to the Duke of York's playhouse, and there, in the 18d. seat, did get room to see almost three acts of the play; but it seemed to me but very ordinary. After the play done, I into the pit, and there find my wife and W. Hewer...[and] here I did meet with Shadwell, the poet, who, to my great wonder, do tell me that my Lord of Orrery? did write this play, trying what he could do in comedy, since his heroique plays could do no more wonders. This do trouble me; for it is as mean a thing, and so he says, as hath been upon the stage a great while; and Harris, who hath no part in it, did come to me, and told me in discourse that he was glad of it, it being a play that will not take

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Guzman

1953
17 April 1669 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

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Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

1954
20 April 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Travels of Cosmo the Third [Tuesday 30 April 1669 NS; Tuesday 20 April 1669 OS]: This day, his highness went to the comedy at the Duke of York's theatre, where the music and dancing, after the English manner, were less pleasing than the operas performed by the comedians; because, being in the English language, the only pleasure which we who heard them, can derive from the latter, is that of observing their action, which it cannot be denied, was supereminently excellent (London, 1821, p. 194)

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1955
10 May 1669 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Travels of Cosmo the Third [Monday 20 May 1669 NS, Monday 10 May 1669 OS]: After this excursion through the city, his highness went to the comedy at the Duke's theatre (p. 304)

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1956
26 June 1671 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: I went home, steping in at the Theater, to see the new Machines for the intended scenes, which were indeede very costly, & magnificient

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1957
21 April 1673 @ no theater listed

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1958
23 September 1673 @ Hatton Garden

Event Comment: Evelyn, Diary: We [Mrs Blagge and Evelyn] went to see Paradise, a roome in Hatton Garden furnished with the representations of all sorts of animals, handsomely painted on boards or cloth, & so cut out & made to stand & move, fly, crawll, roare & make their severall cries, as was not unpretty: though in it selfe a meere bauble, whilst the man who shew'd, made us Laugh heartily at his formal poetrie

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Paradise

1959
22 September 1674 @ no theater listed

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1960
30 April 1676 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: See a note from the Marquis Cattaneo to the Duke of Modena (in Campana de Cavelli, Les derniers Stuarts [Paris and London, 1871], I, 171), in which he states that the entire court went three or four times to see The Man of Mode

Performances

1961
03 September 1679 @ Bartholomew Fair

Event Comment: William Blaythwaite to Sir Robert Southwell, 4 Sept. 1679 [describing a visit made on 3 Sept. 1679 by Sir Edward Dering, Mrs Helena Percival, Miss Helena, Miss Betty, and himself]: What we saw was the dancing on the ropes performed first by Jacob Hall and his company, then by a Dutch dancer, who did wonderful feats. From thence we went to the Elephant, who I think was more terrible than pleasant to the young spectators (Morley, Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair, p. 192)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Entertainments

1962
06 May 1680 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: CSPD, Charles II, 1679-1680, p. 415: Their Royal Highnesses went to see a Play

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1963
12 November 1681 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Marquis of Worcester to the Marchioness, 12 Nov. 1681: the King went to a play in the afternoon, a thing he does very seldom, and I not much oftener (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Beaufort MSS., IX, 87)

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1964
13 January 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Destruction Of Jerusalem By Titus Vespasian Part Ii

1965
25 January 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Lady Anne Howe to the Countess of Rutland, 26 Jan. 1681@2: The King went by water to the new play yesterday, it being the poet's day, and is call'd the Loyallest (HMC, Rutland MSS., 12th Report, Appendix, Part V, p. 64). Newsletter, 26 Jan. 1681@2: Yesterday was a new play called the Royalist, where the Salamanca Doctor is exposed (HMC, 10th Report, Appendix, Part IV, p. 175)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royalist

1966
10 June 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The Loyal Protestant, No. 166, 10 June 1682: London June 9. His Excellency the Bantam Embassador...went yesterday...to see the Green-Goose-Fair, and...was desired to go tomorrow to see a Play acted at the Duke's Theatre, called Circe; which he accordingly intends to do

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Circe

1967
29 October 1683 @ The City, London

Event Comment: The Lord Mayor's Show. By Thomas Jordan. Luttrell (A Brief Relation, I, 285-86): The 29th, sir Henry Tulse...was sworn before the barons of the exchequer at Westminster, whither he went by water, accompanied by the late lord mayor, the new recorder, aldermen, and sheriffs, and attended by diverse of the companies in their barges; their majesties and the duke of York being upon the leads at Whitehall when they passed by: being come back, they passed from the place where they landed, with the usual solemnity, to Grocers Hall, where the lords of the councill, severall of the nobility, judges, and other persons of quality dined

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Mainpiece Title: The Triumphs Of London

1968
06 February 1685 @ no theater listed

Performances

1969
30 December 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 31 Dec. 1685: Yesterday was acted The Committee. The King and Queen were there and all the whole Court went to see it, but coming a little after it was begun [I] could not get any roome (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 100). Bridget Noel to the Countess of Rutland, ca. 6 Jan. 1685@6: [Last Wednesday] my Lady Exeter engaged us to goe to a play with her...which was a Commity. The King and Queen was at it, and the house as full as ever I saw it (ibid.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

1970
14 December 1686 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I waited on my Mother home and afterwards I went into the play (the Maiden Queen) There was a great deale of company, I came home before 8 at night, I am now not charm'd with Playes &c. (Ashburnham MS 932, East Sussex County Record Office, County Hall, Lewes, Sussex; I owe this entry and the subsequent ones from this MS to the kindness of Professor George Hilton Jones, Kansas State University). This is an unusual example of the revival of a play at the public theatre the day before its presentation at court

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secret Love Or The Maiden Queen

1971
03 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play (the Rehearsal) where there was a great deal of company (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686). The play was reprinted in 1687. Cibber, Apology (ed. Lowe, I, 167): People were so fond of seeing her [Mrs Mountfort] a Man, that when the Part of Bays in the Rehearsal had for some time lain dormant, she was desired to take it up, which I have seen her act with all the true coxcombly Spirit and Humour that the Sufficiency of the Character required

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

1972
06 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play (a King and no King) and came home in good time a very rayny night (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A King And No King

1973
11 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the play (Sr Courtly Nice) there was a great deal of company (Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice Or It Cannot Be

1974
28 January 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: In the afternoon came Sr John Katchpole to see me, afterwards I went to the Play (The Maids Tragedy) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maids Tragedy

1975
01 February 1687 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. Lord Ashburnham's Diary: I went to the Play, (The Committee) [Ashburnham MS 932; see 14 Dec. 1686]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee