Event Comment: N.B. We have engag'd
Mr King; &
Miss Baker from Irel
and, one
Mr Moody, a Stroler,-
Mr Beard is gone to
Covent Garden, 'tis said to be manager
Mr Mossop to
Ireland. Receipts: #120 (
Cross). Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. Places from
Mr Varney at the Stage Door. No admittance behind scenes. [The customary note about prices
and admittance will not be noted further here.] [At the opening of the theatres this season appeared an essay in
Goldsmith's
Bee, giving close observations upon actors,
and deploring the relative stiffness
and formality of
English actors in comparison with the
French. Advised English actors to travel abroad. Yet (Vol. 1759, p. 12) commented on the magnificnece of "our theatres as far superior to any others in
Europe where plays only are acted. The great care our performers take in painting for a part, their exactness in all minutiae of dress,
and other little scenical proprieties has been taken notice of by
Riccoboni." Complains of the convention of laying a rug before a dying scene
and of the vacant expressions of mutes on stage.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer
Afterpiece Title: The Intriguing Chambermaid