SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Gibbon"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Gibbon")') 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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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Cast
Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

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Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

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Role: Lenox Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Song: Chorus of Witches and Spirits, as17971107, but Miss Wentworth, Miss _Menage, _Kelly, Mrs _Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Cast
Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Wandering Jew

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Wandering Jew

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: Comus

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

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Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

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Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner

Dance: End: Dance, Pas Seul-Mlle Parisot; the favourite Hornpipe-Sga Bossi DelCaro

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Cast
Role: Lenox Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Song: As17971107, but Chorus of Witches and Spirits-Miss Wentworth, Miss _Menage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

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Role: Antonio Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Eleventh of June; or, The Daggerwoods at Dunstable

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Song: 1st piece: Vocal Parts, as17980224, but Ms _Leak

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Cast
Role: Harold Actor: Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rope Dancing

Entertainment: Mr Gibbons's Company of French Rope Dancers; where you will see stiff Rope-little Child (about two Years and a half old) perform such wonderful things, as is surprising to all that behold him; extraordinary Dancing on the stiff Rope-A Young Maiden who dances to Admiration; Dancing on the Rope, Playing on the Violin-the famous Scaramouch lately come from France, who turns himself as if he was going on the Ground; Walking on the Slack Rope after the Italian manner-A Young Man; Lastly Tumbles-The Famous Gibbon who has had the honour to perform before most of the Courts in Europe, for Lightness, and Agility, far beyond what has ever yet been seen; You will likewise be entertained with good Musick-

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Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: In the course of the mainpiece a plaintive Pastoral Song, unaccompanied by the orchestra, by the Young Lady; End of Monologue a duett from Robin Hood by Price and Miss Phillips

Monologue: 1786 06 28 End of mainpiece Parents and Children; or, The Chimney-Sweeper and Bricklayer by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Gibbons (see 5 and 19 July)])

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Trueman, Gibbon

Afterpiece Title: The Wandering Jew

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: Ld. Gayville-The Young Gentleman who performed Jaffier on Wednesday last [Gibbons]; Clifford-Yatesmore; Sir Clement Flint-Sadler; Blandish-Wilson; Chignon-Benson; Prompt-Simpson; Mr Rightly-Smith; Chairman-Wright; Servants-Watts, Meadows, Johnston; Alscrip-Waldron; Miss Alscrip-Mrs Waldron; Miss Alton-Miss Phillips; Mrs Blandish-Mrs Clarke; Mrs Sagely-Mrs Johnston; Tiffany-Miss Williams; Lady Emily-The Young Lady who performed Belvidera on Wednesday last [Miss Fenton]. Prologue [spoken by Gibbons]. Epilogue [spoken by Miss Fenton] .Miss Fenton]. Prologue [spoken by Gibbons]. Epilogue [spoken by Miss Fenton] .

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom of Coventry

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe; or, Harlequin Friday

Song: End of Act I of mainpiece Sweet Poll of Plymouth by Master Muffett of Hammersmith (1st appearance in public); In Act II an incidental song, accompanied by the pedal harp, by Miss Phillips; End of mainpiece Let Fame sound the Trumpet, as sung by Johnstone in Fontainbleau, by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance)

Monologue: 1786 07 10 End of last song Parents and Children, as 28 June

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. This was the King's Company (Killigrew's), now removed from the red bull to Gibbons' Tennis Court in Vere Street. Probably Clun acted Falstaff. (See An Elegy Upon the Most Execrable Murther in A Little Ark, ed. G. Thorn-Drury, pp. 30-31.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry The Fourthe Part I

Event Comment: See Herbert, Dramatic Records, p. 116. The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Mr Shepley and I to the new Play-house near Lincoln's-Inn-Fields (which was formerly Gibbon's tennis-court), where the play of Beggar's Bush was newly begun; and so we went in and saw it, it was well acted: and here I saw the first time one Moone [Mohun], who is said to be the best actor in the world, lately come over with the King, and indeed it is the finest play-house, I believe, that ever was in England

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Bush