Event Comment: Farce in two acts never performed before. Full prices. [See advertisement to
Reed's 1761 edition where he accuses
Foote of ta
king the character of
Mrs Cole in
the Minor from
Mrs Snarewell.] A new farce wrote by one Reed, a ropemaker, brought out by Mr Foote--went off tolerable--hissed a little at
the end (
Hopkins MS Notes). [See advertisement for
the Universal Register Office
General Advertiser 18 Oct. 1750: This Office being much approv'd and encouraged especially by Ladies and Gentlemen in
the Country, we have daily enquiries by those who are just come to town, and many letters from those in
the country to procure houses and lodgings, both furnished and unfurnished, for single Gentlemen, Ladies, and Families for
the winter; and also boarding houses as well in
French Families as in
English Families." Announces its books open to any who wish to register
there.
The afterpiece met with trouble from
the Licenser.
Larpent MS 189 and 196, indicate
the exceptionable passages to be those using profanity, and those of Mrs Snarewell's capable of double entendre, principally about
the comfort she received from
Mr Watchlight who was called twice out of bed to pray-"so ernest in his ejaculations, &c."
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers
Afterpiece Title: The Register Office
Performance Comment: Actors only: Irishman-Moody; Frenchman-Blakes; Scotchman-Foote; Capt Le Brush-King; Gulwell-Packer; Harwood-Austin; Frankly-Baddeley; Williams-Ackman; Lord Brilliant-Castle; Trickit-Fox; Maria-Miss Reed; Prologue-. Lady Wrinkle and Mrs Snarewell-not permitted to be played ($Genest, IV, 612).