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366 results for: Keyword - British
We found 187 matches on Roles/Actors, 142 matches on Event Comments, 119 matches on Performance Title, 44 matches on Performance Comments, and 0 matches on Author.

251
25 October 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Not Acted these Ten years [but see 22 Dec. 1713]. By His Royal Highness's Command. Written by Ben Johnson. [Prince and Princess present. The Epilogue is in Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 16 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Alchymist

Cast
Role: Face Actor: Mills
Role: Subtle Actor: Cibber
Role: Dapper Actor: Norris
Role: Drugger Actor: Penkethman
Role: Sir Epicure Actor: Harper
Role: Tribulation Actor: Griffin
Role: Ananias Actor: Johnson
Role: Kastril Actor: Miller
Role: Dol Common Actor: Mrs Wetherilt
Role: Epilogue Actor: .

252
05 April 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Legare. Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Otway. Receipts: money #25 1s.; tickets #39 9s. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 7 April: Mr Christopher Bullock, the Comedian, died Thursday Morning of a Fistula and a Consumption

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Soldier's Fortune

Cast
Role: Sir Davy Actor: Aston.
Role: Sir Jolly Actor: Bullock
Role: Sir Jolly Actor: Bullock Sr
Role: Beaugard Actor: Quin
Role: Courtine Actor: Ryan
Role: Fourbin Actor: Spiller
Role: Bloody Bones Actor: Hall
Role: Lady Dunce Actor: Mrs Seymour
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Bullock.

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

Song: With several new collected Songs-Mr Legare, never performed by him before

Dance: Hornpipe-Jones

253
07 November 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [By Sir Richard Steele.] With new Scenes, and all the Characters new drest. Daily Journal, 8 Nov.: Where a greater Concourse of People was never known to be assembled. [See also Cibber, Apology, II, 206; Dennis, Remarks on a Play call'd The Conscious Lovers; and British Journal, 10 Nov. and 8 Dec.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Mills
Role: Sealand Actor: Williams
Role: Bevil Jr Actor: Booth
Role: Myrtle Actor: Wilks
Role: Cimberton Actor: Griffin
Role: Humphrey Actor: Shepard
Role: Tom Actor: Cibber
Role: Daniel Actor: Theo. Cibber
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Moore
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Phyllis Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Prologue by Welsted Actor: Wilks
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

254
12 January 1723 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: [Text by Haym. Music by Handel.] Admission as 7 Nov. Daily Journal, 14 Jan.: On Saturday Night, his Majesty was at the Opera...and Signiora Catzoni, newly arrived from Italy, perform'd for the first Time, to the Surprize and admiration of the Audience, which was very numerous. [See also London Journal and British Journal, 12 and 19 Jan.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Cast
Role: Ottone Actor: Francesco Bernardi , called Senesino
Role: Teofane Actor: Signora Francesca Cuzzoni
Role: Emireno Actor: Guiseppe Boschi
Role: Gismonda Actor: Signora Margherita Durastanti
Role: Adelberto Actor: Gaetano Berenstatt
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Anastasia Robinson.

255
18 January 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twelve Years. Receipts: #46 14s. 6d. The Prologue is printed in British Journal, 26 Jan. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 2 Feb.: It was well acted, in all its different Parts, and justly as well as beautifully drest

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Cast
Role: Phaedra Actor: Mrs Seymour
Role: Hippolitus Actor: Ryan
Role: Theseus Actor: Boheme
Role: Lycon Actor: Quin
Role: Cretander Actor: Diggs
Role: Ismena Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: With a new Prologue Actor: .

256
25 February 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. Receipts: money #45 3s. 6d; tickets #179 1s. British Journal, 3 March: On Monday last, which was the Third Day, there was the greatest Audience ever known at either Theatre....'Tis thought the Author will get upwards of a Thousand Pounds by this Play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

257
18 March 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Rich's Register: Dismiss'd at a very full House by reason Mrs Seymour wou'd not Act for the Benefit fo Mr Ch. M. Rich. Abt #200 in Money and Tickets. British Journal, 23 March: As they were performing...Mariamne...before a Crowded Audience, the Celebrated Mrs Seymour was suddenly taken ill, and the Money return'd to the Value of 150 Pounds

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

258
15 April 1723 @ Moorfields

Event Comment: At a Booth on Windmill Hill. London Journal, 20 April: On Monday Night last one Mr Redshaw, one of the Actors belonging to the Theatre in Lincoln's-Inn Fields, being to be kill'd in Jest in the Play of Darius on Windmill Hill, was kill'd in Earnest, for he was accidentally run into the Eye, of which Wound he died the Day following. [In British Journal, 20 April, the name is Redstraw; in Freeholder's Journal, 20 April, it is Rackstraw.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Darius, King Of Persia

Cast
Role: A part Actor: Redstraw

259
30 November 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Daily Post, 30 Nov.: Harlequin Doctor Faustus...meets with universal Approbation. The Incidents are taken from the old History of the doctor and several Tricks supposed to be done by the Power of the Black Art, art executed in a very surprising Manner, and the last Grand Scene is superior in Magnificence to any thing that has ever yet appeared on the British Stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

260
20 February 1724 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Brown, Buchanan, Richards, Sparkling. [The Prologue was printed in British Journal, 29 Feb.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Convert

Cast
Role: With a new Prologue Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Adventures of Half an Hour

Afterpiece Title: The Plots of Harlequin

261
03 August 1724 @ Richmond

Event Comment: Benefit Chetwood. By Their Royal Highnesses' Command. N.B. Tickets given out for The Merry Wives of Windsor will be taken at this Play. [See Daily Post, 3 Aug., for Penkethman's celebration at Richmond on 1 Aug., the anniversary of the Hanoverian succession to the throne, and British Journal, 8 Aug., for an account of William Marshall, of lif, as an anti-Hanoverian demonstrator on 1 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Duke And No Duke

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Cast
Role: Somebody Actor: Miller.

Dance: Drunken Man-Harper

Song:

262
13 November 1724 @ Westminster School

Event Comment: WWeekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 28 Nov. Before many Persons of distinction, was acted the Adelphi of Terence....The Epilogue is printed in that issue

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Adelphi

Cast
Role: With an Epilogue Actor: .

263
02 October 1725 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Wycherley. [See Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 2 Oct., for lines on the death of Penkethman.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Wife

Cast
Role: Horner Actor: Wilks
Role: Harcourt Actor: Mills
Role: Pinchwife Actor: Booth
Role: Dorilant Actor: Watson
Role: Sparkish Actor: Cibber
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Norris
Role: Quack Actor: Shepard
Role: Country Wife Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Lady Fidget Actor: Mrs Moor
Role: Dainty Fidget Actor: Miss Seal
Role: Mrs Squeamish Actor: Mrs Young
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Baker.

Dance: HHussars-Thurmond, Mrs Booth; Passacaile-Miss Robinson; La Folete, as17250928

264
12 February 1726 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #102 7s. For comments on recent plays, see Mist's, 12 Feb., and British Journal, 12 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rover

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgomaster Trick'd

Cast
Role: Apollo Actor: Salle
Role: Nymphs Actor: Mrs Bullock, Mrs Wall, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson
Role: Daphne Actor: Mlle Salle
Role: Morpheus Actor: Leveridge
Role: Mystery Actor: Leguerre
Role: Slumber Actor: Salway
Role: Burgomaster Actor: Nivelon
Role: Boor Servant Actor: Spiller
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Newhouse
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Harlequin Actor: Lun
Role: Peasants Actor: Newhouse
Role: Peasant Women Actor: Mrs Vincent, Mrs Smythies, Mrs Rice
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Barbier
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs Chambers
Role: Silenus Actor: Leveridge
Role: Bacchus Actor: Salway
Role: Pan Actor: Leguerre
Role: Bacchanals Actor: Lanyon, DuPre Jr
Role: Bacchants Actor: Mrs Ogden, Mrs Anderson
Role: Satyrs Actor: Nivelon, Newhouse
Role: Zephyrus Actor: Salle
Role: Spaniard Actor: DuPre
Role: Polonese Actor: Pelling
Role: Frenchman Actor: Lally
Role: Spanish Woman Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Polonese Woman Actor: Mrs Wall
Role: Frenchwoman Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Flora Actor: Mlle Salle.

265
10 September 1726 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Mr Congreve. [For an essay on the stage, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 10 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Cast
Role: Heartwell Actor: Harper
Role: Fondlewife Actor: Cibber
Role: Bellmour Actor: Wilks
Role: Sharper Actor: Mills
Role: Vainlove Actor: Watson
Role: Sir Joseph Actor: Miller
Role: Bluff Actor: Johnson
Role: Setter Actor: Oates
Role: Laetitia Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Araminta Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Sylvia Actor: Miss Lindar
Role: Lucy Actor: Miss Tenoe.

Music: Between Acts: Select Pieces-

Dance:

266
28 September 1726 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: By His Majesty's Command. By the Italian Company of Comedians newly arriv'd. Pit and Boxes together by tickets only at 4s. Gallery 2s. N.B. Whereas the Number of Subscribers for this Company that are in Town, is very little, some of the first Representations will not be on thair Account. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 1 Oct.: Last Wednesday Night his Majesty and their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, together with great Numbers of the Nobility and Persons of Distinction...saw the Comedy...The Faithful Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Faithful Wife; Or, Arlequin Strip'd, Sentry, Brave, Coward, Terrour Of The Turks, And Judge Of His Own Cause

Dance: Monsieur Poictier, others

267
25 February 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter on opera, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 25 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

268
04 March 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: For an essay on opera, see British Journal, 4 March

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Admetus

269
11 March 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger. Receipts: #42 9s.; tickets #123 5s. Probable attendance: boxes, 42 by money and 226 by tickets; stage, 12 by money; pit, 75 by money and 255 by tickets; slips, 5 by money; first gallery, 92 by money and 285 by tickets; second gallery, 40 by money. [For a letter on pantomime, chiefly at lif, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Warren.
Role: Recruits Actor: Spiller, Smith
Role: Brazen Actor: W. Bullock.
Role: Ballance Actor: Quin
Role: Plume Actor: Ryan
Role: Worthy Actor: Walker
Role: Kite Actor: Hall
Role: Bullock Actor: Bullock
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Bullock
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Egleton
Role: Collier Actor: Hippisley.

Dance: WWooden Shoe Dance-Nivelon; Louvre-Glover; Two Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock; French Sailor-Salle, Mlle Salle

270
18 March 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. [For letter on pantomime, see British Journal, 18 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mithridates, King Of Pontus

Cast
Role: Mithridates Actor: Mills
Role: Ziphares Actor: Wilks
Role: Semandra Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Triumph

Cast
Role: Miser Actor: Cibber Jr
Role: Pierot Actor: Roger
Role: Harlequin Actor: Clark
Role: Clown Actor: Harper
Role: Harlequin's Attendant Spirit Actor: Miss Robinson Jr
Role: Miller's Wife and Daughter Actor: Mrs Wetherilt, Miss Tenoe
Role: Rural Lass Actor: Miss Robinson
Role: Country Lads Actor: Young Rainton, Young Sandham
Role: Countrymen Actor: Boval, Haughton, Duplessis
Role: Countrywomen Actor: Mrs Brett, Mrs Walter, Miss Young
Role: Pomona Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Statues Actor: Thurmond, Roger, Lally, Essex.

271
12 April 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leveridge. Receipts: money #33 17s.; tickets #58 7s. Probable attendance: boxes, 66 by moeny and 106 by tickets; P1t, 69 by money and 167 by tickets; slips, 6 by money; first gallery, 33 by money and 68 by tickets; second gallery 13 by money. Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 15 April: Wednesday died Mr Diggs, a noted Actor at the New Play-House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Nivelon, Poitier

272
06 June 1727 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: On this occasion the partisans of Signora Cuzzoni and Signora Faustina prec1pitated hissing, catcalls, and other disturbances. For details, see British Journal, 10 June; Mist's, 10 June; Craftsman, 10 June; and Ilchester, pp. 18-19

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Astyanax

273
10 February 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: For a letter concerning dl, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 10 Feb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

274
30 March 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #179 4s. Probable attendance: boxes, 214 paid and 1 order; stage, 51 paid; pit, 297 paid and 2 orders; slips, 66 paid; first gallery, 426 paid; second gallery, 198 paid. [For a letter on this play, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 30 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

275
20 September 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. [For a brief comment on this performance, see Weekly Journal or British Gazetteer, 27 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Mills
Role: Iago Actor: Cibber
Role: Cassio Actor: Williams
Role: Roderigo Actor: Miller
Role: Duke Actor: Corey
Role: Brabantio Actor: Roberts
Role: Lodovico Actor: Wm. Mills
Role: Montano Actor: Watson
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Bianca Actor: Miss Raftor.