Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Company of Children"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Company of Children")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
2595 results for: Keyword - Company of Children
We found 1972 matches on Event Comments, 440 matches on Performance Title, 253 matches on Performance Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

926
03 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where was acted Beggar's Bush, it being very well done; and here the first time that ever I saw women come upon the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Bush

927
04 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mr Moore and I to the Theatre, where was The Scornful Lady, acted very well, it being the first play that ever he saw

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

928
07 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Tom and I and my wife to the Theatre, and there saw The Silent Woman. The first time that ever I did see it, and it is an excellent play. Among other things here, Kinaston, the boy, had the good turn to appear in three shapes: first, as a poor woman in ordinary clothes, to please Morose; then in fine clothes, as a gallant, and in them was clearly the prettiest woman in the whole house, and lastly, as a man; and then likewise did appear the handsomest man in the house

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

929
08 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I took my Lord Hinchinbroke and Mr Sidney to the Theatre, and shewed them The Widdow, and indifferent good play, but wronged by the women being to seek in their parts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Widow

930
09 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 117, who gives the date as Monday 9, presumably an error for Wednesday 9

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wedding

931
19 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw The Lost Lady, which do not please me much

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lady

932
25 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Evelyn, Diary: After divers yeares, that I had [not] seene any Play, I went to see acted the Scornfull Lady at a new Theater in Lincolns-in fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

933
28 January 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre, where I saw again The Lost Lady, which do now please me better than before; and here I sitting behind hn a dark place, a lady spit backward upon me by a mistake, not seeing me, but after seeing her to be a very pretty lady, I was not troubled at it at all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lost Lady

934
29 January 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To Blackfryars [presumably a slip for Whitefriars, Salisbury Court] (the first time I ever was there since plays begun), and there after great patience and little expectation, from so poor beginning, I saw three acts of The Mayd in ye Mill, acted to my great content. But it begin late, I left the play

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid In The Mill

935
05 February 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Herbert (Dramatic Records, p. 117), where are listed The Loyall Subject, Mad Louer, The Wildgoose Chase following this play but preceding April 1661. Pepys, Diary: I went by coach to the play-house at the Theatre, our coach in King Street breaking, and so took another. Here we saw Argalus and Parthenia, which I lately saw, but though pleasant for the dancing and singing, I do not find good for any wit or design therein

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

936
09 February 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Creed and I to Whitefriars to the Play-house, and saw The Mad Lover, the first time I ever saw it acted, which I like pretty well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mad Lover

937
12 February 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: we went by water to Salisbury Court play-house, where not liking to sit, we went out again, and by coach to the Theatre, and there saw The Scornful Lady, now done by a woman, which makes the play appear much better than ever it did to me

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Scornful Lady

938
23 February 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. The British Museum copy of the 1653 copy of this play has, in an old hand: Deflores by Betterton. Pepys, Diary: Then by water to Whitefriars to the Play-house, and there saw The Changeling, the first time it hath been acted these twenty years, and it takes exceedingly. Besides, I see the gallants do begin to be tyred with the vanity and pride of the theatre actors who are indeed grown very proud and rich

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Changeling

939
01 March 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys: I to Whitefryars, and saw The Bondman acted; an excellent play and well done. But above all that ever I saw, Betterton, do the Bondman the best

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

940
02 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I went to the Theatre, where I found so few people (which is strange, and the reason I did not know) that I went out again

Performances

941
02 March 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: And so to Salisbury Court, where the house as full as could be; and it seems it was a new play, The Queen's Maske, wherein there are some good humours: among others, a good jeer to the old story of the Siege of Troy, making it to be a common country tale. But above all it was strange to see so little a boy as that was to act Cupid, which is one of the greatest parts in it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen's Mask

942
14 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the Theatre and there saw King and no King, well acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Kinge And No Kinge

943
16 March 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: To Whitefriars and saw The Spanish Curate, in which I had no great content

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Curate

944
19 March 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mr Creed and I to White-Fryars, where we saw The Bondman acted most excellently, and though I have seen it often, yet I am every time more and more pleased with Betterton's action

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

945
25 March 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. See 2 March 1661. Pepys, Diary: I and Captain Ferrers to Salisbury Court, by water, and saw part of the Queen's Maske

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Queen's Mask

946
26 March 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mrs Pierce and her husband and I and my wife to Salisbury Court, where coming late he and she light of Col. Boone that made room for them, and I and my wife sat in the pit, and there met with Mr Lewes and Tom Whitton, and saw The Bondman done to admiration

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

947
28 March 1661 @ Theatre in Vere Street

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then with Mr Shepley to the Theatre and saw Rollo ill acted

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rollo Duke Of Normandy

948
01 April 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then to Whitefryars, and there saw part of Rule a wife have a wife, which I never saw before, but do not like it

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

949
02 April 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. An edition dated 1661 lists no cast, no prologue, and epilogue. Pepys, Diary: And so to White-fryars and saw The Little Thiefe, which is a very merry and pretty play, and the little boy do very well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Little Thief

950
06 April 1661 @ Salisbury Court

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. Pepys, Diary: Then by water, Creed and I, to Salisbury Court and there saw Love's Quarrell acted the first time, but I do not like the design or words

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Quarrel