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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Kentish man"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Kentish man")') 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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2326 results for: Keyword - Kentish-man
We found 1421 matches on Performance Title, 539 matches on Performance Comments, 474 matches on Event Comments, 4 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1301
25 August 1786 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost; or, The Man Bewitch'd

Song: End of 2nd Monologue Four-and-twenty Fiddlers all on a Row by Edwin. MONOLOGUES. Before mainpiece Peeping Tom of Coventry's Peep into London; End of mainpiece A Cure {or a Scolding Wife, both by Edwin

1302
15 November 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

1303
15 December 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

1304
30 December 1786 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Fawcett

1305
11 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Performance Comment: Clodio-Lewis; Don Louis-Quick; Anthonio-Thompson; Charino-Booth; Don Duart-Davies; Governor-Gardner; Sancho-Fearon; Don Manuel-Cubitt; Carlos-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Elvira-Mrs Bates; Louisa-Mrs Morton; Angelina-Miss Wilkinson (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Don Manuel Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Cast
Role: Necromancer Actor: Davies
Role: Shewman Actor:
Role: Boatman Actor:

1306
24 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Don Manuel Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Cast
Role: Necromancer Actor: Davies
Role: Shewman Actor:
Role: Boatman Actor:

1307
27 January 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, By John O'Keeffe. Prologue by George Colman elder (Colman, Prose, III, 276)]. The curtain was obliged to be dropt before the piece was finished, amidst the disapprobation of a very splendid and numerous audience" (Public Advertiser, 29 Jan.). Receipts: #219 6s. 6d. (216.5.0; 3.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Man Milliner

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Edwin, Wewitzer, Davies, Fearon, Brown, Rock, Quick, Mrs Webb, Mrs Bates, Miss Platt, Miss Brangin, Mrs Brown. [Cast from O'Keeffe's Dramatic Works, IV (T. Woodfall, 1798): Bob Dobbin-Edwin; Coeffeuse-Wewitzer; Frank Dobbin-Davies; Faggot-Fearon; Sir Harry Fangle-Brown; Waterman-Rock; Galen Dobbin-Quick; Postboy-Swords; Mrs Coeffeuse-Mrs Webb; Lady Dolphin-Mrs Bates; Mrs Chainstitch-Miss Platt; Fidget-Miss Brangin [in text: Mrs Grey]; Miss Polly Gunnel-Mrs Brown [in text: Mrs Mattocks (but see European Magazine, Feb. 1787, p. 118);]; [New Prologue-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Waterman Actor: Rock

1308
02 February 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

1309
08 March 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of Such Things Are, announced on playbill of 6 Mar.] Receipts: #314 3s. 6d. (312.10.0; 1.13.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Cast
Role: Necromancer Actor: Davies
Role: Shewman Actor:
Role: Boatman Actor:

1310
20 March 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Love and War

1311
30 March 1787 @ Red-Lion Inn, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem; Or, Humours Of The Litchfield Landlord

Performance Comment: Archer-Sterne; Aimwell-Sidney; Boniface-Young; Sir Charles Freeman-Russel; Foigard-Wilson; Gibbet-Marriot; Sullen-Jones; Scrub-Simpson; Dorinda-Mrs Simpson; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Marriot; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Fowler; Gipsey-Miss Fowler; Cherry-Mrs Sterne.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Freeman Actor: Russel

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd; or, An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Song: As17870326

1312
05 May 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Macklin. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. [In afterpiece the playbill assigns Charlotte to Mrs Morton, but "On the illness of Mrs Morton Miss Ambrose, whom many must remember on the stage, was applied to--and undertook the part. Long disuse to it had made her timid [she had retired from the stage in May 1782], but she was well received by the public, and performed well" (World, 7 May). Mrs Morton is also listed as Betty Hint in mainpiece; her substitute in that part is not known.] World, 17 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Macklin, No. 6, Tavistock-row, Covent Garden. Receipts: #335 1s. 6d. (173.19.6; 2.11.0; tickets: 156.11.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

1313
07 June 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every Man In His Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End: Hornpipe-Johnston; End I afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17870525

1314
13 June 1787 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

1315
28 August 1787 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Edwin. 2nd piece [1st time; F 2, by George Colman, elder, based of L'Avocat Patelin, by David Augustin de Brueys. This is usually ascribed to William Macready. But on the title-page of his copy (K-D 295 in Huntington Library) J. P. Kemble has written "This Piece was not written by Mr Macready." Public Advertiser, 29 Aug. states that "Colman...presented Edwin upon this occasion with a new Farce, taken from a celebrated French Play." World, 15 Oct. 1787 refers to Colman's dislike of L'Avocat Patelin, but adds, "When [he] came to translate it himself, he found reason to alter his opinion."]. Public Advertiser, 25 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Edwin, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir John Cockle, At Court

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost; or, The Man Bewitch'd

Song: End 2nd piece: the new Four@and@twenty Fiddlers all on a Row-Edwin

Entertainment: Monologue End: Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners (a Comical, Whimsical, Operatical, Farcical Rhapsody)-Edwin

1316
28 November 1787 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #281 8s. (274.8.6; 6.19.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Which Is The Man

Related Works
Related Work: Love Without Interest; or, The Man Too Hard for the Master Author(s): William Penkethman

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Cast
Role: Manly Actor: Macready

Dance: As17871029

1317
18 January 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Cast
Role: German Baron Actor: Wewitzer

1318
01 February 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1319
09 February 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: As17880129

1320
14 February 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Merchant of Venice; afterpiece of Love a-la-Mode, both advertised on playbill of 12 Feb.] Receipts: #315 15s. (304.2; 1.13)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Performance Comment: Clodio-Lewis; Don Louis-Quick; Antonio-Thompson; Charino-Booth; Don Duart-Davies; Sancho-Fearon; Governor-Gardner; Manuel-Cubitt; Carlos-Farren; Angelina-Mrs Mountain; Elvira-Mrs Lewis; Louisa-Mrs Bernard.
Cast
Role: Manuel Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: The Dumb Cake

Cast
Role: German Baron Actor: Wewitzer

1321
03 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1322
25 March 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Manuel Actor: Cubitt

Afterpiece Title: Omai

1323
07 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: [The performance was interrupted when "a piece of brass of upwards of a pound weight [was] hurled from the gallery into the pit, and much injured a lady on which it fell" (Public Advertiser, 8 Apr.). Advertisement from the theatre printed in the same newspaper, 9 Apr.: "For discovery of the offender the Theatre offers a reward of 10 guineas." Account-Book, 26 June: Paid Messrs Francis the reward offered #10 10s.] Receipts: #278 2s. 6d. (272.7.0; 5.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Omai

1324
24 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farmer

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Related Works
Related Work: Comus Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Song: As17880310

1325
28 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: As17871129