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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant; Or, George Barnwell

Afterpiece Title: The Adopted Child

Performance Comment: Sir Bertrand-Trueman; Le Sage-Sedgwick; Record-Suett; Michael-Bannister Jun.; Spruce-Russell; Flint-Phillimore; Boy-Mast. Welsh; Clara-Miss Leak; Lucy-Miss DeCamp; Jannette-Miss Tidswell; Nell-Mrs Bland.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961112

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Rosencrantz Actor: Caulfield

Afterpiece Title: The Doctor and the Apothecary

Performance Comment: Thomaso-Hollingsworth; Sturmwald-Wewitzer; Carlos-Kelly; Juan-Bannister Jun.; Guzman-Sedgwick; Doctor Bilioso-Suett; Perez-Phillimore; Shopman-Evans; Anna-Mrs Crouch; Isabella-Mrs Bland; Theresa-Mrs Booth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Halfwit-Suett; Dabble-Bannister Jun.; Frolick-Hollingsworth; Beaumont-Caulfield; Mrs Matadore-Mrs Booth; Diana-Miss Heard; Mrs Meddle-Miss Tidswell.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961116

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Performance Comment: Millamour-Wroughton; Dashwould-Bannister Jun.; Malvil-Whitfield; Bygrove-Aickin; Capt. Bygrove-C. Kemble; Sir J. Millamour-Packer; Sir H. Lovewit-R. Palmer; Charles-Wewitzer; Lady Bell-Miss Farren; Lady Jane-Mrs Gibbs; Mrs Bromley-Miss Pope; Miss Neville-Miss Miller.

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wonder

Performance Comment: Don Lopez-Aickin; Don Felix-Kemble; Frederick-Campbell; Don Pedro-Suett; Col. Briton-Wroughton; Gibby-Wathen; Lissardo-Bannister Jun.; Alguazile-Maddocks; Vasquez-Evans; Soldier-Phillimore; Servant-Webb; Donna Violante-Miss Farren; Donna Isabella-Miss DeCamp; Inis-Miss Mellon; Flora-Miss Pope.

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chapter Of Accidents

Performance Comment: Lord Glenmore-Whitfield; Governor Harcourt-Suett; Woodville-Palmer; Captain Harcourt-Barrymore; Grey-Aickin; Vane-R. Palmer; Jacob-Bannister Jun.; Servant-Fisher; Cecilia-Miss Farren; Miss Mortimer-Mrs Powell; Warner-Mrs Booth; Bridget-Miss DeCamp.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: The Seneschal Actor: Wentworth

Dance: As17961019

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse; Or, Benevolent Tar

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Performance Comment: Sir Rowland-Barrymore; Lord Alford-Dignum; Walter-Bannister Jun.; Apathy-Suett; Gabriel-R. Palmer; Oliver-Caulfield; Lady Helen-Mrs Powell; Josephine-Mrs Bland; Winifred-Mrs Booth; Children-Master Menage, Master Chatterley.

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Performance Comment: Polanders. Prince Lupauski-Aickin; Count Floreski-Kelly; Baron Lovinski-Palmer; Varbel-Suett; Adolphus-Caulfield; Gustavus-Trueman; Pages-Master Welsh, Master Gregson; Princess Lodoiska-Mrs Crouch; Captives-Ms Roffey, Ms Maddocks, Ms Arne, Ms Jackson, Ms Wentworth, Ms Menage; Tartars. Kera Khan-Barrymore; Ithorak-Dignum; Khor-Sedgwick; Japhis-Bannister; Kajah-Campbell; Tamuri-Male; Camazin-Grimaldi; The Horde-Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Evans, Annereau.

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17970105

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Purse

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Performance Comment: Sylvester Daggerwood-Bannister Jun.; Fustian-Suett; Servant-Trueman.

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years. [Mrs Worthington is identified in MS list in Kemble playbills of new performers for this season.] Ballet: 1st time; composed by Giacomo? Gentili. Afterpiece [1st time: ENT 1, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan; acted in place of The Prize, advertised on playbill of 4 Mar. Text (C. Lowndes, 1797)]: Altered from a Dramatick Entertainment performed 1794 [The Glorious First of June]. In the course of which will be introduced a representation of the late Glorious Engagement between the British and Spanish Fleets on the Fourteenth of February [1797, under Sir John Jervis, off Cape St. Vincent]. Receipts: #253 9s. (151.2.6; 100.17.0; 1.9.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Performance Comment: Vincent; or, British Valour Triumphant. Commodore Broadside-Palmer; Splicem-Kelly; Endless-Suett; Robin-Barrymore; Tom Oakum-Bannister; William-C. Kemble; Ben-Sedgwick; Busy-Caulfield; Boys-Master Welsh, Master Chatterley; Mary-Miss DeCamp; Susan-Miss Leak; Old Woman-Mrs Booth; Nancy-Miss Menage. [Text adds Cottager-Maddocks, and specifies Tom-Master Welsh; Bill-Master Chatterley.]

Song: III: a Masquerade Scene-; with Hark! the Lark at Heaven's Gate sings-Sedgwick, Dignum, Welsh, Master Welsh

Ballet: End: The Labyrinth; or, The Country Madcap. Joseph-Gentili; Robert-Grimaldi; Philip-Master Menage; Rosina-Sga Bossi DelCaro; Countess-Mrs Wild; Lauretta-Miss S. DeCamp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: Whimsey-Hollingsworth; Monford-Whitfield; Young Whimsey-R. Palmer; Tim Tartlett-Bannister Jun.; Furnish-Suett; Simon-Russell; Mrs Pattypan-Mrs Booth; Charlotte-Miss Heard; Nancy-Miss Tidswell.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Wedding Day

Afterpiece Title: The Deuce is in Him

Performance Comment: Col. Tamper-Palmer; Major Belford-Whitfield; Prattle (1st time)-Bannister Jun.; Emily-Mrs Siddons; Bell-Miss Heard; Florival-Mrs Goodall.

Entertainment: Monologue. To conclude with: a Short Notice of Farewells, including her own Farewell for the Present Season-Mrs Siddons

Performance Comment: To conclude with: a Short Notice of Farewells, including her own Farewell for the Present Season-Mrs Siddons.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Duke [Senior]-Aickin; Frederick-Caulfield; Amiens-Dignum; Jaques-Palmer; Le Beau-R. Palmer; Oliver-Whitfield; Jaques de Boys-Holland; Orlando-Barrymore; Adam-Packer; Touchstone-Bannister Jun.; Corin-Hollingsworth; Sylvius-Trueman; Rosalind (with the Cuckoo Song)-Mrs Jordan; Celia-Miss Mellon; Phebe-Miss Heard; Audrey-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Senior] Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Critic; or, A Tragedy Rehearsed

Performance Comment: Dangle-R. Palmer; Sneery-Barrymore; Sir Fretful Plagiary (1st time)-Dowton; Signor Ritornello-Maddocks; Interpreter-Wewitzer; Puff-Palmer; Mrs Dangle-Miss Tidswell; Italian Girls-Miss Leak, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp; Tragedians Lord Burleigh-Caulfield; Governor of Tilbury Fort-Hollingsworth; Earl of Leicester-Whitfield; Sir Walter Raleigh-Russell; Sir Christopher Hatton-Wathen; Don Ferolo Whiskerandos-Bannister Jun.; Nieces-Miss Heard, Miss Mellon; Tilburina-Miss Pope.

Song: V: song-Mrs Bland

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Performance Comment: Orsino-Barrymore; Sefastian-Trueman; Valentine-Caulfield; Sir Toby Belch-Palmer; Sir Andrew Ague@cheek-Suett (1st appearance in that character); Sea Captain-Holland; Fabian-R. Palmer; Malvolio-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Clown (1st time)-Dowton; Olivia-Mrs Crouch; Viola-Mrs Jordan; Maria-Miss Mellon.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: Lord William-Kelly; Baron of Oakland-Hollingsworth; Edward-Bannister Jun.; Lewis-Caulfield; Robert-Dignum; Charles-Sedgwick; Baron de Courcy-Whitfield; Martin-Wathen; Hugo-Dowton; Lady Elinor de Courcy-Miss DeCamp; Adela (by Permission of the Proprietor of the Opera House)-Sga Storace; Cicely-Mrs Bland; Maud-Mrs Booth.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Dance: End I: The Camp-[i.e. Les Delassements Militaires] (by permission of the Proprietor of the Opera House); End afterpiece: Cupid and Psyche-Mme Rose, Didelot, Mlle Parisot, Gentili, Fialon, Mme Hilligsberg, with Corps de Ballet from the Opera House [will appear, positively for that night only

Performances

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

Performance Comment: Don Manuel-King (1st appearance in that character); Don Philip-Barrymore; Octavio-C. Kemble; Trappanti-Bannister Jun.; Soto-R. Palmer; Hippolita-Mrs Jordan; Rosara-Miss Heard; Flora-Mrs Goodall; Viletta-Miss Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Linco's Travels

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Entertainment: Monologue. End I: Kitty Conolly and Jack the Painter (Very lately Versified, and never before presented to the Public)-King

Performance Comment: End I: Kitty Conolly and Jack the Painter (Very lately Versified, and never before presented to the Public)-King.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Performance Comment: Robin Hood (with O bring me Wine by Shield, and There the silver'd waters roam, from The Pirates by Storace)-Sedgwick; Little John (with All in preparation, from The Haunted Tower)-Bannister Jun.; Ruttekin-Wathen; Bowman-Caulfield; Fitzherbert-Dowton; Scarlet-Trueman; Edwin-Incledon (by permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal, Covent-Garden); Clorinda-Miss Leak; Annette-Mrs Bland; Angelina-Miss DeCamp (Their 1st appearance in those characters).

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Song: In the course of the evening: The Storm-Incledon

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author

Performance Comment: Cadwallader-Bannister; Young Cape-R. Palmer; Sprightly-Palmer Jun.; Governor Cape-Usher; Robin-Abbot; Poet-Waldron; Printer's Devil-Waldron Jun.; Arabella-Mrs Edward; Mrs Cadwallader-Mrs Gibbs.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew

Performance Comment: As17961011, but Sheva-Bannister Jun.; Eliza Ratcliffe-Mrs Goodall.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performance Comment: Lingo-Fawcett; Sir Felix Friendly-Hollingsworth (of dl); Compton-Bannister; Eugene-Davies; Chicane-Usher; Thomas-Waldron Jun.; John-Lyons; Cudden-Chippendale; Stump-Ledger; Laura-Miss Andrews (1st appearance on any stage [recte at this theatre]); Mrs Cheshire-Mrs Davenport; Fringe-Mrs Harlowe; Cowslip-Mrs Gibbs (1st appearance in that character).

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham; Or, Days Of Old

Performance Comment: Gondibert-Palmer; Barton-Aickin; La Varenne-C. Kemble; Duke of Somerset-Lyons; Prince of Wales-Miss Menage; Fool-R. Palmer; Corporal-Wathen; Drummer-Trueman; Fifer-Waldron Jun.; Marquis of Montague-Caulfield; Egbert-Palmer Jun.; Robbers-Bannister, Davies, Abbot; Gregory Gubbins-Fawcett; Adeline-Mrs Harlowe; Villagers-Mrs Bland, Miss Andrews, Mrs Edwards; Queen Margaret-Mrs Fawcett (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Robbers Actor: Bannister, Davies, Abbot

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Performance Comment: Major Benbow-Suett; Justice Benbow-Usher; Capt. Greville-Johnstone; Capt. Wilson-Bannister; Tipple-Munden; Kilderkin-Ledger; Ned-Abbot; Putty-Waldron Jun.; Eliza (1st time)-Miss Andrews.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: Octavian-Elliston; Virolet-C. Kemble; Kilmallock-Caulfield; Roque-Aickin; Muleteers-Bannister, Davies, Lyons; Lope Tocho-Suett; Goatherds-Davenport, Waldron Jun.; Bulcazin Muley-Palmer Jun.; Ganem-Trueman; Pacha-R. Palmer; Ali Beg-Abbot; Moors-Ledger, Usher; Sadi-Wathen; Zorayda-Miss Heard; Floranthe-Miss DeCamp; Agnes-Mrs Bland; Peasants-Miss Andrews, Mrs Harlowe, Mrs Edward, Miss Menage.
Cast
Role: Muleteers Actor: Bannister, Davies, Lyons

Afterpiece Title: Cross Purposes

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Iron Chest

Performance Comment: Sir Edward Mortimer-Elliston; Fitzharding-Aickin; Wilford-C. Kemble; Adam Winterton-Fawcett; Rawbold-Palmer; Samson-Suett; Armstrong-Trueman; Orson-R. Palmer; Robbers-Davies, Caulfield, Bannister; Helen-Miss DeCamp; Blanch-Mrs Gibbs; Barbara-Mrs Bland; Judith-Mrs Harlowe.

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and No Duke

Song: 1st piece: General Chorus-Philipps, Linton, Brown, Aylmer, Little, Walker, Willoughby, Dibble, Caulfield Jun., Ms Edward, Ms Benson, Ms Butler, Ms Gaudry, Ms Hale, Ms Masters, Ms Menage, Ms Norton, Ms Leserve

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Diego-Bannister; Leander-Davies; Scholars-Abbot, Lyons; Mungo-Wathen; Ursula-Mrs Davenport; Leonora-Mrs Atkins (1st appearance in that character).

Song: As17970816

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Performance Comment: Sir Rowland-Barrymore; Lord Alford-Dignum; Walter-Bannister Jun.; Apathy-Suett; Gabriel-R. Palmer; Lady Helen-Mrs Powell; Josephine-Mrs Bland; Winifred-Miss Tidswell; Children-Master Menage, Master Chatterley.

Song: In III: a song-Dignum