Event Comment: Benefit
Dr Clancy. "The Day returns, but not to me returns,"
Milton. This Gentleman being deprived of the Advantages of following his profession; and as the writing he had produced for the stage could not be brought out this season, the Master of the Playhouse has been so kind as to favour him with a Benefit Night: It is therefore hoped, that as this will be the first instance of any person laboring under so heavy a deprivation, performing on the stage, the Novelty, as well as the Unhappyness of his case, will engage the favour and protection of a
British Audience. Note: Tickets to be had at the
Temple-Exchange Coffee House in
Fleet Street;
Tom's Coffee House in
Cornhill;
St. James Coffee House,
St. James's Street;
Child's Coffee House,
St. Paul's Churchyard and the
Chapter Coffee House in
Paternoster Row. Places for Boxes to be Taken at the Stage Door of the Theatre. [
General Advertiser, 4 April, publish'd a fifty-six
Prologue (licensed) Intended for
Oedipus, acted for the Benefit of the Very Ingenious
Dr Clancy, written by
Mr Lockman.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes
Performance Comment: Tiresias the Prophet-Dr Clancy who is Blind; Oedipus-Delane; Creon-Bridges; Adrastus-Mills; Haemon-Havard; Phorbas-Berry; Aegeon-W. Giffard; Manto-Miss Budgell; Citizens-Yates, Taswell, Neale, Morgan, Arthur, Dunstall, Collins; Ghost of Laius-Woodburn; Diocles-Winstone; Pyracmon-Turbutt; Alcander-Blakes; Dymas-Green; Jocasta-Mrs Roberts; Euridice-Mrs Mills.Afterpiece Title: The School Boy