Event Comment: Afterpiece: A New Comedy (by
Hugh Kelly] of 2 Acts never perform'd. [Written, as the author states in his Advertisement to the Edition of 1774, at the instigation of and on the inspiration of
Mrs Abington. The
Larpent MS 379 lists a partial cast and the lengths for each part: 10
Hector Strangeways-Lady Strangeways-$Mrs Green; 7 1!2
Zelinda 1!2
Jenny-....(A Length was 42 lines of dialogue.)] [From the +Westminster Magazine, Dec: Though there is scarce anything new in the Plot, Characters, Dialogue of this piece; yet upon the whole we found it extremely entertaining. The
Indian servant is well introduced to satirize the follies and vices of the metropolis; and
Sir Hector and his son give us a good dish of sea terms, well served up by Messrs $Shuter">Shuter; 7
Brownlow-$Bensley; 5
Ormsby-$Clarke; 6
Bussora-...; 5 +Orson-...; 6 +Pillage-$Dunstall; 1!2
Servant-...; 5 +Lady Strangeways-$Mrs Green; 7 1!2
Zelinda 1!2
Jenny-....(A Length was 42 lines of dialogue.)] [From the +Westminster Magazine, Dec: Though there is scarce anything new in the Plot, Characters, Dialogue of this piece; yet upon the whole we found it extremely entertaining. The
Indian servant is well introduced to satirize the follies and vices of the metropolis; and
Sir Hector and his son give us a good dish of sea terms, well served up by Messrs $Shuter and
Quick."
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Artaxerxes
Afterpiece Title: The Romance of An Hour
Performance Comment: Parts by: Shuter, Bensley, Clarke, Lee Lewes, Quick, Dunstall, Miss Pearce, Mrs Green, Mrs Bulkley. With a New Prologue and Epilogue. Sir Hector Strangeways-Shuter; Brownlow-Bensley; Col. Ormsby-Clarke; Bussora-Lee Lewes; Orson-Quick; Pillage-Dunstall; James-Bates; Jenny-Miss Pearce; Lady Di Strangeways-Mrs Green; Zelida-Mrs Bulkley; With a New Prologue by Kelly-Lee; Epilogue by Kelly-Mrs Bulkley (Edition of 1774).Dance: I: The Vintage Festival, as17741007; End Opera: The Irish Lilt-Aldridge, Miss Valois. [See17731005]