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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17291219, but Angelica-Mrs Oldfield; Prue-Miss Raftor.
Cast
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Horton.
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Norris
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Pure Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Willis.

Afterpiece Title: The Beggar's Wedding

Dance: Roger, Lally, Essex, Thurmond, Boval, Rainton, Mrs Booth

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Willis.

Afterpiece Title: The Contrivances

Dance: FFlute Chacone-Mrs Booth; Les Bergeries, as17321019

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Cast
Role: Scandal Actor: W. Mills
Role: Trapland Actor: Griffin
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Heron
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Willis.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Dance: FFlute Chacone, Minuet-Mrs Booth; Les Bergeries, as17321019

Event Comment: At Yates's Booth in the George Inn, Smithfield. A new, pleasant and Diverting Droll...interspers'd with several Scenes both Satyrical and Comical, particularly the surprizing Metamorphosis of Jupiter and Mercury; the very remarkable Tryal before Judge Puzzlecause, with many learned arguments on both sides to prove that One can't be Two. Likewise the Humourous Adventures and whimsical Perplexities of Gormandize Simple, the Hungarian Footman; with the wonderful Conversations he had with and the dreadful Drubbings he received from his own Apparition; together with the Intrigues of Dorothy Squeezepurse, the wanton Chambermaid. Concluding with the Distresses of the Jealous Husband or the Innocent Adultress. Yates from Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Clothes, scenes, machines, flyings, Transparencies and all other Decorations entirely new

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Descent Of The Heathen Gods, With The loves Of Jupiter And Alcmena; Or, Cuckoldom No Scandal

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Oates; Amphitryon-Furnival; Mercury-Marr; Tranio-Wright; Polydas-Peters; Gormandize Simple the Hungarian Footman-Yates; Alcmena-Mrs Butler; Bromia-Mrs Brown; Dorothy Squeezepurse the wanton Chambermaid-Miss Hippisley; Judge Puzzlecause-Shuter.

Dance: TThe Drowsy Cobler-M L'Armand, Mad L'Armand lately arriv'd from Paris; Tit for Tat or the Kiss Return'd-Mr Shawford, Mrs Shawford, M L'Armand, Mme L'Armand; An extraordinary Band of Musick [provided from the Opera and both the Theatres [six instruments named]

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wanton Widow; Or, The Fool In Fashion

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin; or, The Quaker Outwitted

Song: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

Dance: Phillips, Mr and Mrs Denison

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Robinson. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Arbella Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Boval, Lallie, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe, Miss Smith; Harlequin-Mrs Booth; The original Irish Trot-Weaver

Song: A Boy a Scolar of Mrs Margarita del'Epine

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bicknell

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Cast
Role: Mrs Clerimont Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Biddy Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Fainlove Actor: Mrs Willis
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Moor.

Dance: Shaw, Denoye, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger; particularly The Harlequin-Shaw, Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit Norris and Mrs Heron. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Porter

Dance: Thurmond, Mrs Booth, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson; Hussars-Thurmond, Mrs Booth

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): Barton Booth
Event Comment: At Cibber-Griffin-Bullock-Hallam Booth. [The Fair to run to Friday, 7 Sept.] Second piece: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction, and eminent Merchants and Citizens. Taken from the Works of the Immortal Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Rosco
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Statira Actor: Mrs Haughton.
Role: Haly Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Grace.
Role: Miriam Actor: Mrs Purden
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Morgan
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Clarke
Role: Mrs Blake Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: The Comical Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, Ancient Pistol, and Others

Performance Comment: Antient Pistol-Cibber; Falstaff-Berry; Hostess-Mrs Roberts; Shallow-Griffin; Silence-Stoppelaer; Dol Common-Miss Atherton; King Henry-Cross; Lancaster-Leigh; Justice-W. Hallam; Bardolph-Jones; Feeble-Bullock; Mouldy-Wm. Hallam; Simon Shadow-Leigh; Ragged Wart-Smith; Mrs Cribcole-Mrs Talbot; Mrs Overdone-Mrs Dansey; Mrs Trumpery-Miss Mann; Miss Witless-Miss Careless.
Cast
Role: Hostess Actor: Mrs Roberts
Role: Mrs Cribcole Actor: Mrs Talbot
Role: Mrs Overdone Actor: Mrs Dansey
Role: Mrs Trumpery Actor: Miss Mann

Afterpiece Title: The Ridotto Al' Fresco

Performance Comment: Doctor-Stoppelaer; Harlequin-LeBlanc; Punch-Janno; Mezzetin-Tench; Ladies of Pleasure-Miss Atherton, Miss Careless, Mrs Roberts, Miss Mann; Marques de Fresco-Arlequin en Chien; Marchioness des Fresco-Arlequinne en Chienne[, as17330823., as17330823.

Dance: End I Second Piece: Black Joke-Smith, Miss Brett; II: Comic Dance-Mrs Booth

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 15 May 1782]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 25 Mar. 1775]. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Banquo to Bensley, but "Poor Bensley's illness last night took him off; but on another night he will give and take in the triumph" {Public Advertiser, 4 Feb.). In afterpiece he is assigned to The Guardian. On the Kemble playbill in both cases his name is deleted and MS annotations substitute Hull's.] "Macbeth at Drury-lane will. . . gag the drivellers who, on the failure of Constance [in King John], ventured a sweeping prophecy of condemnation that 'the Siddons never could play Shakespeare.' Would it not have been better to have borrowed Farren, rather than Hull, for Banquo?" (Public Advertiser, 4 Feb.). "'Why,'say some of the critics, 'should Mrs Siddons wear a white dress in her last scene of Lady Macbeth? She is supposed to be asleep, not mad.' What reason except custom can be given for a mad heroine appearing in white we know not [and see DL, 20 Dec. 1782]. Yet there is an obvious reason why a person walking in their sleep should wear a white dress of the loose kind worn by Mrs Siddons ... It [is] the nearest resemblance which theatrical effect will admit, to the common sort of night-dresses" (Public Advertiser, 7 Feb.). Receipts: #346 16s. (198/10/0; 7/2/6; 0/8/6; tickets: 140/15/0) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Performance Comment: Macbeth-Smith; Banquo-Hull [of CG]; Duncan-Packer; Ross-Aickin; Malcolm-R. Palmer; Macduff-Brereton; Hecate-Bannister; Witches-Parsons, Moody, Baddeley; Lady Macbeth-Mrs Siddons .
Cast
Role: Lady Macbeth Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Performance Comment: The Guardian-Hull [of CG]; Sir Charles Claclcit-Parsons; Young Clackit-Dodd; Lucy-Mrs Wilson; Harriet-Miss Kemble .
Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wilson
Related Works
Related Work: L'Honorata Poverta di Rinaldo: viz, The honourable Poverty of Rinaldo, false accused by the Maganzesians: With Harlequing Guardian to his Master's Family and Defender of his Castle Author(s): Giacinto Andrea Cicognini

Song: In mainpiece: The Original Music by Matthew Locke, with additional Accompaniments, by Bannister, Dignum, Suett, Chapman, Barrymore, Williames, Wilson, Fawcett; Miss Phillips, Miss Field, Mrs Love, Mrs Booth, Miss Barnes, Mrs Burnett, Miss Simson, Miss Cranford, Miss Burnett, Mrs Smith, the Miss Stageldoirs, Miss George, Mrs Wrighten. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances, except on 4 Feb.]

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Porter. By Their Royal Highness's Command. Admission to Pit and Boxes by Tickets only. Tickets for The Orphan taken or the Money returned

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love's Last Shift

Dance: Shaw, Denoyer, Thurmond Jr, Lally, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Tenoe

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Performance Comment: As17210309 but Lady Darling-Mrs Baker; Smugler-Johnson; Beau Clincher-Penkethman; Young Clincher-Miller; Dicky-Norris.
Cast
Role: Lady Darling Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Colonel Standard Actor: Mills
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Booth

Dance: Desnoyer, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe, Miss Smith

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Thurmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Gallant

Cast
Role: Lady Dainty Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Clerimont Actor: Booth
Role: Lady Sadlife Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Clarinda Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Booth

Dance: Passicale-Shaw, Mrs Booth; Turks' Dance-Thurmond, Mrs Younger; Peasants-Topham, Mrs Bullock; Dutch Skipper-Thurmond, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Horton. Davies (Dramatic Miscellanies, I, 103-4): Upon Mrs Younger's quitting Drury-lane for a more advantageous income at Lincoln's-inn-fields, [Mrs Horton] was called upon by Wilks to act the part of Phillis in the Conscious Lovers. Younger had given the public so much entertainment in that part, that Mrs Horton met with very uncandid treatment from the audience; who so far forgot what was due to merit and the handsomest woman on the stage, that they endeavoured to discourage her by frequent hissing. She bore this treatment with patience for some time. At last, she advanced to the front of the stage, and boldly addressed the pit: "Gentlemen, what do you mean?What displeases you; my acting or my person?' This shew of spirit recovered the spectators into good humor, and they cried out, as with one voice, No, no, Mrs Horton; we are not displeased; go on, go on.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17241119, but Phillis-Mrs Horton.
Cast
Role: Phillis Actor: Mrs Horton.
Role: Bevil Jr Actor: Booth
Role: Sealand Actor: Williams
Role: Indiana Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Moore
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Booth

Dance: Thurmond, Mrs Booth, Mrs Tenoe, Young Rainton, Miss Robinson

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): Barton Booth
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Thurmond

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Husband

Performance Comment: As17280110, but Squire Richard-_; John Moody-_; Count Basset-_; Mrs Motherly-_; Myrtilla-_; Mrs Trusty-_.
Cast
Role: Lady Townly Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lady Grace Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Lady Wronghead Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Cibber
Role: Mrs Motherly Actor: Mrs Moore
Role: Myrtilla Actor: Mrs Grace
Role: Mrs Trusty Actor: Mrs Mills

Dance: Thurmond, Weaver, Essex, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Mills, Miss Robinson Jr, Mrs Brett, Mrs Walter, Miss Lindar; particularly The Hussars-

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Doctor Faustus Author(s): Barton Booth
Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Heron and Mrs Campbell. Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Margareta Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Oldfield

Dance: Shaw, Desnoye, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Performance Comment: As17200204, but Ben-Miller; Jeremy-_; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Horton; Angelica-Mrs Oldfield.
Cast
Role: Mrs Foresight Actor: Mrs Horton
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Oldfield.
Role: Prue Actor: Mrs Younger.
Role: Scandal Actor: Booth
Role: Trapland Actor: Norris
Role: Mrs Frail Actor: Mrs Porter.

Dance: Shaw, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Bullock. Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margarita Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Miss Lindar; A new Scotch Dance-Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Amorous Widow

Cast
Role: Wanton Wife Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Lady Laycock Actor: Mrs Saunders
Role: Lady Pride Actor: Mrs Willis
Role: Damaris Actor: Mrs Bicknell
Role: Philadelphia Actor: Mrs Younger.

Music: A particular Entertainment-Signior Gironimo

Dance: Shaw, Desnoyer, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Norris Jr, Wright, Mrs Bowman

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Younger
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Horton.

Song: Mrs Bowman

Dance: Shaw, Thurmond Jr, Lally, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Tenoe, Miss Smith

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Thurmond. At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello, Moor Of Venice

Performance Comment: As17211118, but Desdemona-Mrs Thurmond; Emilia-Mrs Baker.
Cast
Role: Desdemona Actor: Mrs Thurmond
Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Othello Actor: Booth

Dance: Shaw, Mrs Booth, Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock; Burgomaster-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Burton, Middly Gallery Boxkeeper. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Cast
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Colonel Standard Actor: Mills
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Booth

Dance: Shaw, Denoye, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Baker.
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Arbella Actor: Mrs Horton

Dance: Shaw, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: Benefit Boval and Mrs Markham. Written by Ben. Johnson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Silent Woman

Performance Comment: As17220109, but Silent Woman-Mrs Thurmond.
Cast
Role: Silent Woman Actor: Mrs Thurmond.
Role: Dauphine Actor: Booth
Role: Mrs Otter Actor: Mrs Baker
Role: Lady Haughty Actor: Mrs Moor
Role: Dol Mavis Actor: Mrs Younger.

Dance: Shaw, Denoye, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Bicknell, Mrs Younger

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Younger

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Relapse

Cast
Role: Berinthia Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Amanda Actor: Mrs Porter
Role: Hoyden Actor: Mrs Younger.

Dance: Shaw, Topham, Boval, Mrs Booth, Mrs Younger, Mrs Bullock, Miss Tenoe; particularly Myrtillo-