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5882 results for: Keyword - Mr Kent
We found 4240 matches on Event Comments, 1379 matches on Performance Comments, 567 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

1101
20 November 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Kemble; Duke of Burgundy-Dignum; Duke of Cornwall-C. Kemble; Duke of Albany-Whitfield; Earl of Kent-Aickin; Earl of Gloucester-Packer; Edgar-Wroughton; Edmund-Barrymore; Knights-Caulfield, Phillimore, Maddocks, Welsh; Physician-Jones; Captain of the Guard-Trueman; Officer-Cooke; Oswald-Russell; Herald-Banks; Page to Goneril-Master Chatterley; Page to Regan-Master Gell; Old Man-Burton; Edward-Benson; Ruffians-Webb, Evans; Goneril-Mrs Cuyler; Regan-Mrs Maddocks; Cordelia-Mrs Siddons; Aranthe-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Earl of Kent Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

1102
10 October 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Pope; Bastard-Middleton; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Waddy; Cornwall-Macready; Albany-Toms; Gentleman Usher-Farley; Burgundy-Philipps; Cornwall's Servant-Thompson; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Fawcett; Goneril-Miss Morris; Cordelia-Miss Wallis.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Waddy

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains

1103
20 November 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Murray (1st appearance in that character [in London]); Bastard-Whitfield; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Waddy; Cornwall-Clarke; Albany-Toms; Gentleman Usher-Simmons; Doctor-Davenport; Cornwall's Servant-Thompson; Edger-Holman; Regan-Mrs Litchfield; Goneril-Miss Mansel; Arante-Miss Leserve; Cordelia-Mrs Spencer (1st appearance in that character [in London]).in London]).
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Waddy

Afterpiece Title: Barataria; or, Sancho Turned Governor

1104
29 October 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Pope; Bastard-Whitfield; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Waddy; Cornwall-Macartney; Albany-Claremont; Gentleman Usher-Farley; Burgundy-Mills; Doctor-Davenport; Cornwall's Servant-Thompson; Gentleman-Klanert; Old Man-Rees; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Litchfield; Goneril-Mrs Dibdin; Arante-Miss Leserve; Cordelia-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Waddy

Afterpiece Title: The Naval Pillar

Dance: As17991007

Song: In afterpiece: As17991011

1105
20 July 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For a list of the players in the two companies from a document in the Kent Archives Office, see Sybil Rosenfeld, Unpublished Stage Documents, Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), 94

Performances

1106
20 August 1702 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Dance: Tollet's Ground-Essex, Mrs Lucas; Scotch Dance-Mrs Bignell; Dame Ragondes and her 8 Children-Nevelong, 8 more; The Right Irish Trot-Goodwin

1107
30 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of The Yeoman of Kent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humour Of The Age

Afterpiece Title: An Interlude of City Customs

Dance: DuRuel; Also an extraordinary comical entertainment, Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchinello-

1108
24 May 1709 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Finch and Mrs Kent. See also Tatler, 24 May

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

1109
12 April 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kent and Mrs Bickerstaff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Sea Voyage; Or, A Commonwealth Of Women

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: French Peasant, Chacone-Miss Santlow; Scaramouch-Layfield; Miller and his Wife-Leigh, Burkhead; Italian Night Scene-Layfield, others

1110
09 July 1712 @ St Martin's Lane

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kent and Mrs Lyddel. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

1111
12 May 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Kent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Tickets for The Adventures of Five Hours taken this day. Receipts: #72 1s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Music: As17150125

Dance: delaGarde, duPre, Moreau, Bovil, Mrs Bullock

1112
08 May 1716 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Ogden and Mrs Kent. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #9 9s. and tickets #26 8s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Song: As17160216

Dance: Dancing, as17151029, but _Shaw

1113
20 May 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Knapp and Mrs Kent. Receipts: money #8 9s.; tickets #49 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The She Gallants

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Executed

Song: As17170114

Dance: As17170510; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond Jr, Miss Smith

1114
01 November 1723 @ Dog Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Lorenzo, Gomez, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Roger in Aesop, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Hob in The Country Wake, Sir Toby, the Philosophers in Love's Contrivance-Tony Aston.

1115
04 December 1723 @ King's Arms Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Gomez, Lorenze, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Petruchio, Peg in The Taming of a Shrew, Fondlewife, Laetitia, Belamour in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Philosophers, Sir Toby in Love's Contrivances, Prologue, Epilogue-Tony Aston.

Entertainment: Comical Songs-; The Drunken Man-

1116
10 December 1723 @ Castle Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Sawney, Petruchio, Peg in The Taming of the Shrew, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Sir Toby, the Philosophers in Love's Contrivance, Hob in The Country Wake, The Drunken Man-Tony Aston.

1117
31 December 1723 @ Anchor and Vine Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Gomez, Lorenzo, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Sauney, Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Sir Toby, Philosophers in Love's Contrivance, The Drunken Man-Tony Aston.

Song:

1118
13 March 1724 @ Horseshoe Tavern

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Gomez, Lorenzo, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Sauney, Petruchio, Peg in Sauney the Scot, Fondlewife, Belmour, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Sir Toby, the Philosophers in Love's Contrivance, Prologue, Epilogue-Tony Aston.

Entertainment: Comical Songs-; The Drunken Man-

1119
20 April 1724 @ Palace Yard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medley

Performance Comment: Lorenzo, Gomez, Elvira in The Spanish Fryar, Sauny, Petruchio, Peg in The Taming of the Shrew, Belmour, Fondlewife, Laetitia in The Old Batchelor, Woodcock, Hillaria, Squib in The Yeoman of Kent, Roger, Aesop, Sir Toby, Philosophers in Love's Contrivances, Prologue, Epilogue-Tony Aston.

Song: Comical Songs-

1120
15 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Messrs Fawcett and Hartry. Paid salary list #520 7s. 6d.; Recv'd from Sinking Fund #334 10s.; Stopages #17 5s. (Treasurer's Book). On Monday a New Comedy, Never performed, called The Maid of Kent, for the Benefit of Waldron. Receipts: #230 8s. 6d. Charges: #65 14s. Profits to Hartry and Fawcett: #149 14s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: A Peep behind the Curtain

Entertainment: V: A Dissertation upon Macaronies-Baddeley

1121
15 October 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; M. ENT 2, by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (also attributed to Richard Tickell). Prologue by Richard Tickell (London Chronicle, 23 Oct.). Text 1st published probably by T. Lowndes, 1795]: To conclude with a perspective Representation of the Grand Camp at Cox-Heathv [near Maidstone, Kent, where a military encampment had been in existence for several months], from a View taken by DeLoutherbourg and executed under his direction. [This was included in all subsequent performances.] With a New Overture and other Music [by Thomas Linley Sen.]. New Scenery, Dresses and Decorations. Account-Book, 16 Oct.: Paid Supernumeraries & Soldiers for Camp #35 5s. 6d. Receipts: #266 0s. 6d. (258.16.0; 6.18.0; 0.6.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: The Camp

1122
16 September 1789 @ King's Head Inn, Borough High Street, Southwark

Event Comment: Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin precisely at 7:00. Tickets to be had at the Eagle, Ram, White Horse, Antelope and King's Head. Geoghegan, printer, No. 3, Kent-Street, Borough, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Entertainment: Vaudeville End Opera: [The Last new Squeeze for St. Paul's [i.e. British Loyalty]-Tunstall; [to conclude with a grand Chorus of God save the King-; [that sublime Soliloquy of Cato on Life Death and Immortality-Pope; [As a Gentleman lately asserted no Person in England could restore a Fowl to Life after its head should be cut off, it will be attempted by Pope. With several other of his tricks, particularly the Writing and Copying-Pope; [which for the Satisfaction of the Audience shall be explained how they are performed, and make every Person capable of doing the same. The whole to conclude with Divertisement Spanish and Venetian Speculums [consisting of Spanish Bull-baiting, and several other Diversions-Pope[, Venetian Processions and several curious Diversions, in beautiful Transparencies, interspersed with a Variety of Strictures, Satiric, Illustrive and Humourous

1123
22 May 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE

Performance Comment: Sir Charles Racket-Wilkinson; Lovelace-Field; Woodley-Jones; Drugget-Wewitzer//Mrs Drugget-Mrs Thompson; Nancy-Mrs Jones [thus Oracle; Morning Herald: Mrs Lawson]; Dimity-Mrs Wewitzer [thus Oracle; Morning Herald: Miss Kent]; Lady Racket (1st time)-Miss Thomas .

Music: End of mainpiece Master Julien Baux, a Child under Six Years of Age, will perform a Concerto on the Violin by Viotti

Monologue: 1794 05 22 End of afterpiece an Occasional Address by Miss Thomas

1124
21 September 1795 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: By Permission of the Lord Chamberlain. Benefit for Waldron, prompter. Mainpiece [1st time; TC 5, by Francis Godolphin Waldron. Larpent MS 1094; not published]: Founded on Shakespeare and Fletcher's Two Noble Kinsmen, by the Continuator of Ben Jonson's Sad Shepherd. With new Music composed by Dr Arnold. Copies of the Songs will be delivered gratis at the Theatre. Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, by Francis Godolphin Waldron, abridged from his The Maid of Kent. Larpent MS 1095; not published]: Written by the Author of Heigho for a Husband. Tickets and Places for the Boxes to be had of Waldron, No. 54, Drury-lane, and of Rice, at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love And Madness

Afterpiece Title: 'Tis a Wise Child Knows its Father

1125
02 July 1799 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In IV a Masquerade Scene. [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Bentley, Bynam, Dale, Edmonds, Faux, Fisher, Gregson, Gaurion, Kent, Munday, Ross, Robson, Robinson, Smith, Sherwood, Stevens, Townsend, Webb, Whitmell, Wyber, Wells, Wyatt, Waterer, Mrs Byrne will be admitted.] Receipts: #31 14s. (8.11.0; 13.16.6; 0.7.0; odd money: 8.19.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd