SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Edwards"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Edwards")') 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

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We found 2463 matches on Roles/Actors, 939 matches on Author, 591 matches on Performance Comments, 208 matches on Event Comments, and 77 matches on Performance Title.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard Iii

Performance Comment: King Richard-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); King Henry-Lucas; Duke of Buckingham-Thompson; Prince of Wales-Master Benson (1st appearance on any stage); Duke of York-Master Kenny; Norfolk-Massey; Oxford-Stevens; Lord Stanley-Painter; Blunt-Bell; Ratcliff-Kenny; Catesby-Bailey; Tressel-Mills; Lieutenant-Newton; Lord Mayor-Bowles; Tirrell-Edwards; Richmond-A Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]); Lady Anne-Mrs Lefevre; Duchess of York-Mrs Leister; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs Robinson (from the Theatre Royal at Bath); An occasional Prologue (written by a Gentleman eminent in the Republic of Letters [unidentified])-West.
Cast
Role: Tirrell Actor: Edwards

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Song: A variety of Entertainments of Singing, particularly The Soldier tir'd-a Lady [unidentified]

Entertainment: Monologue. End: an occasional Address-Master Benson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albina, Countess Raimond

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bondman

Afterpiece Title: Plymouth In An Uproar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Performance Comment: Lord Aimworth-Mattocks (of cg); Sir Harry Sycamore-Parsons; Fairfield-Aickin; Mervin-Edwards (1st appearance in that character); Ralph-Davies; Giles-Bannister; Fanny-Mrs Wrighten; Theodosia-Miss Collett; Patty-Mrs Baddeley.
Cast
Role: Mervin Actor: Edwards

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: The Choice of Harlequin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: As17820613

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: A Fete

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood; Or, Sherwood Forest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Rambler

Dance: End of mainpiece a New Dance by Le Bccuf and Mlle Constance (from the King's Theatre in Paris; 1st appearance)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Dance: As17840730

Monologue: 1784 08 20 As 19 Aug. IMITATIONS. As 30 July

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Refugee; Or, The Rival Jews

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Jackson, Cartwright, Holland, Osborne, Frederic, Mitchell, Edwards, Porter, Henley, Connell (with a new Irish sons in character); A Young Lady (1st appearance [unidentified]), Mrs Bolton, Mrs Cartwright, Mrs Ponsonby, Mrs Henley, A Lady (2nd appearance [unidentified]). [Larpent MS lists the parts: Sir Gregory Granby, Sir ThomasLoveby, George Granby, Frank Bentley, Solomons, Levi, Waddle, Scandal, Dennis, Robert, Waiter; Eliza Wentworth, Mrs Dornbush, Miss Harcourt, Charlotte Harcourt, Lady Loveby, Susan, Miss Nancy, Miss Kitty, Maid.] hathi.

Afterpiece Title: A Musical Interlude

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: Cadwallader-Jackson; Vamp-Osborne; Young Cape-Edwards; Sprightly-Frederic / Mrs Cadwallader (for that night only)-A Young Lady (Sister to Mr Edwin, of Covent Garden, 1st appearance in this, and 2nd on any stage [Mrs Williams]) .Mrs Williams]) .
Cast
Role: Young Cape Actor: Edwards

Song: End of Act I of 3rd piece How sweet's the love that meets return by Mrs Henley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feast Of Thalia; Or, A Dramatic Olio

Afterpiece Title: First Course, an Operatic Dish: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Second Course, a Comic Dish: More Frighten'd than Hurt

Afterpiece Title: a Desert: The Honest Yorkshireman

Monologue: 1785 08 16 End of Second Course, by way of Entremet, Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an Ass, by Wilson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bird In A Cage

Afterpiece Title: Small Talk; or, The Westminster Boy

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Grand Dance, as17860424; End of Act I of afterpiece Leap Year, as17860227

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement; or, The Loves of Bengal

Dance: As17870217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Second; Or, The Fall Of Rosamond

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Dance: In I 2nd piece: As17880204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Miller of Mansfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: As17891124, but Cicely-Mrs Edwards in place of Miss Romanzini.

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Dance: As17891204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Dance: As17891204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Dance: As17891204

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London; or, The Happy African

Dance: I: a Fair Scene-; Statute Dance-; End: As17920410

Song: In afterpiece: a Planxty, descriptive of Ireland If you travel the wide world all over (Morning Herald, 23 Apr.)-Johnstone in Character

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive