Event Comment: Acted there but once. By Authority. Tickets deliver'd out by
Miss Barton which could not get in on Thursday last, will be admitted this Night. [
An Epistle from Mr Theophilus Cibber, to
David Garrick, Esq. London: 1755, dated Nov. 20, 1755: When
Th. Cibber returned from
Guilford last July, he found a discharge from
Covent Garden (p.5) He got a license from the
Duke of Grafton to open
Little Haymarket (p. 6). He began
and acted ten nights in three weeks, with some success, but when
Drury Lane opened, Th. Cibber was ordered to stop (p. 7). He then petitioned the Duke of Grafton to have The
Haymarket for two or three times weekly for the rest of the season. He hoped that the Little Haymarket might be a nursery for young performers, as well as for new pieces (p. 24). See dl 24 Nov.
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal
Afterpiece Title: Lethe
Performance Comment: Aesop-Pinner; Mercury-Miss Davies; Charon-Carr; Gentleman-Parker; Tatoo-Turner; Drunken Man-Quelch; Old Man-Pittard; Frenchman-Blakey; Taylor-Paget; Servant-May; Mrs Tattoo-Miss Barton; Mrs Rist-Miss Carey; Lord Mayor, Cardinals, Judges, Players, Soldiers (horse and foot)-the rest of the Comedians.Dance: PPierrots Dance-Settree, Walker, Sga Fiorentina; Hornpipe-a small jolly Tar, seven years old; La Dance de Village-Settree, Sga Fiorentina