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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Cast
Role: Pisander Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth (1st time [at this theatre]; and 1st appearance at this theatre)-Henderson; Macduff-Clarke; Duncan-Hull; Banquo-Wroughton; Malcolm-Whitfield; Lenox-L'Estrange; Seyton-Thompson; Hecate-Reinhold; Witches-Quick, Mrs Pitt, Brunsdon; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Hartley.

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

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Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Song: Vocal parts-Reinhold, Doyle, J. Wilson, Baker, Miss Brown, Miss Valois, Mrs Morton, Mrs Willems

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

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Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Related Work: The Fair Quaker of Deal, or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Related Work: The Quaker Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady Of The Manor

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End II: as17791022; I: Rural Dance, as17791008

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Performance Comment: Ranger-Lewis; Strictland-Clarke; Jack Meggot-Booth; Bellamy-Whitfield; Tester-Wewitzer; Frankly-Wroughton; Mrs Strictland-Mrs Jackson; Jacintha-Mrs Lessingham; Lucetta-Mrs Green; Clarinda-Miss Farren.
Cast
Role: Strictland Actor: Clarke
Role: Mrs Strictland Actor: Mrs Jackson
Related Works
Related Work: The Suspicious Husband Criticized; or, The Plague of Envy Author(s): Charles Macklin

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Brothers

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Related Work: The Unnatural Brother Author(s): Edward Filmer
Related Work: Fatal Love; or, The Degenerate Brother Author(s): Osborne Sidney Wandesford
Related Work: The Brothers Author(s): Edward Young

Afterpiece Title: The Devil To Pay

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Charles Coffey
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by Richard Cumberland]: taken from [the same, by] Massinger and [Mariamne, by] Fenton. [not in Larpent MS; not published.] With new Dresses. Henderson "might surely break himself of the aukward custom of clapping his hands together almost perpetually, and running on and off the stage with so ungraceful a levity" (Morning Chronicle, 11 Nov.). [Miss Younge was from dl.] Receipts: #127 10s. 6d. (124.14.0; 2.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Milan

Related Works
Related Work: The Duke of Milan Author(s): Richard Cumberland

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love A la mode

Related Works
Related Work: Love a-la-mode Author(s): Charles Macklin

Dance: End III: The Husband Deceived, as17791109, but Ratchford; End IV: +The Shepherd's Wedding, as17791013

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Twin Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: The School For Scandal [announced on playbill of 17 Nov.] is obliged to be deferred on account of King's still continuing ill.Receipts: #111 17s. 6d. (82.5.0; 26.15.6; 2.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Performance Comment: Loveless-Smith; Young Fashion-Palmer; Sir Tunbelly Clumsey-Moody; Colonel Townly-Brereton; Probe-Parsons; Lory-Baddeley; Lord Foppington-Dodd; Berinthia-Miss Farren; Amanda-Mrs Robinson; Miss Hoyden-Mrs Abington.
Cast
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Robinson

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Related Work: The Fair Quaker of Deal, or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Related Work: The Quaker Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love A la mode

Related Works
Related Work: Love a-la-mode Author(s): Charles Macklin

Dance: End III: The Dockyard, as17791115; End IV: The Shepherd's Wedding, as17791013

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, by Elizabeth Griffith, based on Le Bourru Bienfaisant, by Carlo Goldoni. Author of Prologue unknown; Epilogue by Horace Walpole (Works, 1798, IV, 402-3)]: With new Dresses and Scenes. Receipts: #199 16s. (184.17.0: 14.11.6; 0.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by King, Bensley, Brereton, Aickin, Baddeley, Lamash, Wrighten, Burton, Palmer, Miss Pope, Mrs Brereton, Miss Collett, Mrs Colles, Miss Kirby, Mrs Abington. Cast from text (Fielding and Walker et al]), 1780, and Morning Chronicle, 3 Dec.: Sir William Woodley-King; Counsellor Belford-Bensley; Mr Woodley-Brereton; Mr Bromley-Aickin; Forward-Baddeley; Sir Harry Granger-Lamash; Waters-Wrighten; James-Burton; Colonel Mountfort-Palmer; Mrs Bromley-Miss Pope; Louisa-Mrs Brereton; Spitfire-Miss Collett; Mrs Williams-Mrs Colles; Mrs Henpeck-Miss Kirby; Lady Mary Woodley-Mrs Abington; Prologue-King; [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.] Epilogue-Miss Farren. [This was spoken again on 4 Dec., but omitted thereafter.]This was spoken again on 4 Dec., but omitted thereafter.]
Related Works
Related Work: Just in Time Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Vernon
Related Works
Related Work: The Padlock Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Related Works
Related Work: Just in Time Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Candidates Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Times

Performance Comment: As17791204, but Epilogue-_[and thereafter].and thereafter].
Related Works
Related Work: Just in Time Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Related Work: The Fair Quaker of Deal, or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Related Work: The Quaker Author(s): Charles Dibdin
Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; T 5, by William Hodson. Prologue by William Collier, Poems (1800, 1, 241). Epilogue by the author (see text)]: With new Dresses, and new Scenery and Decorations design'd by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. Public Advertiser, 19 Jan. 1780: This Morning at Ten is published Zoraida (1s. 6d.). Receipts: #147 10s. 6d. (118.1.0; 28.12.0; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zoraida

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Candidates Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Song: See17791214

Event Comment: The Mirror is set aside till the Holidays on account of some proposed Alterations and Additions [see 27 Dec.]. Receipts: #111 18s. (110.10; 1.8)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Cast
Role: Orlando Actor: Lewis
Role: Charles Actor: Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The Two Misers

Related Works
Related Work: The Two Misers Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: End I: The Dockyard, as17791204; V: a Dance of Foresters-Dagueville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Pitt

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Related Works
Related Work: The Touchstone; or, Harlequin Traveller Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Related Works
Related Work: Love a-la-mode Author(s): Charles Macklin

Dance: End III: The Dockyard, as17791204; End IV: Dance-Master Dagueville, Master Holland, Miss Dagueville

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shepherdess Of The Alps

Related Works
Related Work: The Shepherdess of the Alps Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17791013

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Shepherdess Of The Alps

Related Works
Related Work: The Shepherdess of the Alps Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: As17791022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Palmer, Aickin, Baddeley, Farren, Lamash, Waldron, Nash, Philimore, Parsons, Miss Pope, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Brereton, Miss Farren. Cast adjusted from London Chronicle, 30 Apr. 1779: Sir Harry Varnish-Palmer; Fairgrove-Aickin; Rudely-Baddeley; Charles Fairgrove-Farren; Flippant-Lamash; Robin-Waldron; Welford-Parsons; Kitty-Miss Pope; Lady Varnish-Mrs Hopkins; Sophia Welford-Mrs Brereton; Louisa Freemore-Miss Farren; unassigned-Nash, Philimore.
Cast
Role: Charles Fairgrove Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Related Works
Related Work: The Rival Candidates Author(s): Charles Thomas Carter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Love a la Mode

Related Works
Related Work: Love a-la-mode Author(s): Charles Macklin

Dance: End III: As17791022; End IV: The Dockyard, as17790922

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties."The croud was so great at Drury-lane playhouse, to see the young prince William in his naval uniform, that it was found necessary to throw a kind of bridge from the stage to the pit to liberate several people, who otherwise must have perished in the throng" (Gentleman's Magazine, Mar. 1780, P. 151). Receipts: #271 14s. (259.13; 9.6; 2.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Cast
Role: Ferdinand Actor: Vernon
Role: Miranda Actor: Mrs Cuyler

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Related Work: The Fair Quaker of Deal, or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Charles Shadwell
Related Work: The Quaker Author(s): Charles Dibdin

Dance: I: Dance of Spirits, as17791103; III: a Dance of Fantastic Spirits, as17791103; IV: Grand New Dance, as17800228, but Sga _Crespi