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6418 results for: Keyword - English, French, Dutch Characters
We found 3996 matches on Performance Comments, 1727 matches on Performance Title, 1431 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

5901
10 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: Selima and Azor

5902
20 October 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: As17891017

5903
27 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: "Edwin condescended to make a buffoon of himself [in The Dramatist], for all he had to do was to amuse the audience with his knob of hair, and his versicolor'd knee strings. It is cruel to expose a great actor in such unmeaning characters" (Prompter, 28 Oct.). Receipts: #177 1s. 6d. (166.15.6; 10.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt
Role: Englishman Actor: Bernard

5904
31 October 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Performance Comment: Isaac-Quick; Ferdinand-Johnstone; Jerome-Ryder; Antonio-Duffey; Father Paul-Bannister (Their [i.e. the last 3 named] 1st appearance in those characters); Lopez-Farley; Carlos (2nd time)-Mrs Mountain; The Duenna-Mrs Webb; Louisa-Mrs Martyr; Clara-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: The Devil upon Two Sticks

5905
03 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: "Miss Farren is almost beyond criticism; she is always animated, hurries you away, and does not leave you time to reflect. We are not too bold in asserting that Europe does not produce a finer actress in these lively, natural characters" (Prompter, 4 Nov.). Receipts: #155 19s. 6d. (120.7.0; 34.11.0; 1.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Song: As17891017

5906
06 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Dance: End IV: Tamborine Dance, as17891021

5907
23 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Harley; Bastard-Fennell (Their 1st appearance in those characters); Gloster-Hull; Kent-Aickin; Albany-Davies; Cornwall-Macready; Burgundy-Blurton; Physician-Gardner; Gentleman Usher-Bernard; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Bernard; Goneril-Mrs Platt; Arante-Miss Rowson; Cordelia-Miss Brunton.

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

5908
28 November 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Robin Hood

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Performance Comment: Thomas-Bannister; Squire-Johnstone; Dorcas-Mrs Martyr; Sally-Mrs Mountain (Their 1st appearance in those characters).

Dance: 3rd piece to Conclude: a Dance-

5909
30 November 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

5910
02 December 1789 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Hypocrite

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

5911
12 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

5912
14 December 1789 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: French Doctor Actor: Cubitt
Role: Englishman Actor: Bernard

5913
10 February 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Dramatist

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Dance: As17891125

Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Cranfield, Delpini, Boyce, Byrne, Mrs Davenett, the two Miss Simonets

5914
27 February 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe

Dance: As17900210

Song: As17890922

5915
06 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: After Singing: As17900405

Song: End: Poor Jack, as17900323

5916
06 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Dance: After Singing: As17891021

Song: End: A Laugh and a Cry (composed by Blewitt)-Darley, Blanchard

Entertainment: Monologue. Preceding: an Introductory Address-Ryder

5917
13 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17891024

Song: In course of Evening: The Wolf-Bannister

5918
16 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Dance: End: The Wapping Landlady; or, The Sailor in Distress-

Entertainment: Monologue. After Dancing: fable, The Old Man Son and Ass-Ryder; End afterpiece: Bucks have at ye All-Ryder

5919
20 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Mordecai's Beard

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Dance: End I: As17900323

Song: End II: a new Masonic Song-Dignum

Entertainment: Monologue. End: The Picture of a Play@House; or, Bucks have at ye all-Bannister Jun

5920
27 April 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Busy Body

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Cast
Role: Emai Actor: Miss Francis. Part I. A Nuptial Procession, with the Performance of the Marriage Ceremony according to the Custom observed at O'Whyee. The Manner of Combat between two Natives. Part II. The Arrival of the Resolution. The Disembarkation of the English, with the Ceremonies observed at entering into a Treaty of Peace with the Natives. A Preparation for a Human Sacrifice. The Assassination of Captain Cook. Part III. A Representation of the Naval and Military Honours observed on erecting a Pile to the Memory of Capt. Cook, by the Officers of the Resolution. The Ceremony performed on the same Occasion, according to the Manner of the Natives of O'Whyee. To conclude with a Representation of a Burning Mountain.

Dance: As17891128

5921
29 April 1790 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: La Generosita D'alessandro

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Marchesi, Benigni, Costa, Torregiani, Sga Borselli, Mme Mara. Cast from libretto (Hammond and Cane [1790]: Poro-Luigi Marchesi; Gandarte-Benigni; Alessandro-Costa; Timagene-Torregiani; Erissena-Sga Borselli; Cleofide-Mme Mara.

Dance: End I: La Jalousie sans Raison, as17900325End Opera: New Ballet, as17900422

Song: Two new songs of his own composition-Marchesi; one in Act I, one in Act II, accompanied by violin violoncello and tenor-Cramer, Cervetto, Shield

5922
30 April 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: Arthur and Emmeline

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

5923
01 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Dance: As17891106

5924
03 May 1790 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Dance: As17891021

Song: As17900208

Entertainment: Monologue. End I afterpiece: Occasional Address-Harley

5925
04 May 1790 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The College Of Physicians; Or, Doctor Last's Examination

Afterpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Song: End II 2nd piece: The Greenwich Pensioner-Dignum