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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Penkethman"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Penkethman")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04

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6294 results for: Keyword - Mr. Penkethman
We found 4291 matches on Event Comments, 1893 matches on Performance Comments, 531 matches on Performance Title, 19 matches on Author, and 7 matches on Roles/Actors.

251
04 June 1730 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: DDaily Journal, 4 June: There is building, and almost finish'd here [in Richmond], a small, but very neat and regular Theatre, a little higher on the Hill than where the late Mr Penkethman's stood. We hear it will be open'd next Week by a Company...from...Lincoln's Inn Fields, and that their first Play will be the Recruiting Officer...and that they design to perform three or four Times a Week during the Summer Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Author's Farce

Afterpiece Title: Tom Thumb

Cast
Role: Princess Huncamunca Actor: Mrs Jones
Role: Queen Dollalolla Actor: Mrs Mullart
Role: Cleora Actor: Mrs Smith
Role: Mustacha Actor: Mrs Clarke. With a New Prologue and Epilogue to the Tragedy

252
04 March 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man

Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Pritchard
Role: Elvira Actor: Mrs Butler

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

Performance Comment: As17360918, but Timothy-attempted (after the manner of the late facetious Mr Penkethman) Hyde.
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Cross
Role: Aunt Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Kitty Actor: Mrs Clive

Dance: II: Black Joak-Philips, Miss Mann; V: English Maggot-Villeneuve, Mrs Walter

253
07 May 1745 @ May Fair

Event Comment: MMiddleton's Great Theatrical Booth. Mainpiece: The late facetious Mr. Penkethman's diverting Droll, not acted these thirty years. Note, this is no Puff. [Repeated 13 May. From a news item of 13 May, this piece was probably acted the rest of this week.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Argalus And Parthenia

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Whim; or, A True Touch of the Times

254
30 August 1707 @ Bartholomew Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Penkethman's Dancing Dogs

255
22 May 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. And for the Entertainment of his Excellency Hegabdelcader Perez, Embassador from the Emperor of Fez and Morocco

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Epsom Wells

Performance Comment: Wilks, Mills, Johnson, Wilks Jr, Norris, Harper, Penkethman, Mrs Thurmond, Mrs Younger, Mrs Heron, Mrs Baker, Miss Tenoe.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill, who never appear'd on this Stage before

256
16 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Title Unknown

Cast
Role: Mr Dryden Actor: Mr Batterton
Role: Epilogue by the same Authour Actor: Mr Smith.

257
15 February 1675 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Calisto; Or, The Chaste Nimph

Cast
Role: Diana Actor: Mrs
Role: Mercury Actor: Mrs Jennings
Role: Nymphs attending Diana Actor: The Countess of Darby, The Countess of Pembroke, The Lady Katherine Herbert, Mrs Fitz-Gerald, Mrs Frazier
Role: Mrs Fitz Actor: Gerald, Mrs Frazier
Role: The Persons of Quality of the Men that Danced Actor: His Grace the Duke of Monmouth, The Viscount Dunblaine, The Lord Daincourt, Mr Trevor, Mr Harpe, Mr Lane
Role: The River Thames Actor: Mrs Moll? Davis
Role: Peace Actor: Mrs Mary? Knight
Role: Plenty Actor: Mrs Charlotte? Butler
Role: The Genius of England Actor: Mr Turner
Role: Europe Actor: Mr Hart
Role: Asia Actor: Mr Richardson
Role: Africa Actor: Mr Marsh Jun
Role: America Actor: Mr Ford
Role: Strephon Actor: Mr Hart
Role: Coridon Actor: Mr Turner
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Davis
Role: Daphne Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: Two African Women Actor: Mrs Butler, Mrs Hunt

Afterpiece Title: Calisto's Additional performers

Cast
Role: Singers Actor: Mrs Masters, Mrs Peirce, Robert, Degrang, Shepheard, Maxfield, Preston, Letelier, Bopins, Bury

258
30 November 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers; Or, The Good Natur'd Man

Cast
Role: Miss Valence Actor: Mrs Baddeley
Role: Mrs Boncour Actor: Mrs Hopkins

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: As17780919

259
15 October 1776 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Cast
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Bradshaw
Role: Mrs Chat Actor: Mrs Cartwright.

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Cast
Role: Mrs Bundle Actor: Mrs Wrighten.

260
14 November 1696 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham Doctor

Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Betterton by Mr Motteux
Role: Wife to the Doctor Actor: Mrs Leigh
Role: Mrs Angelica Actor: Mrs Bowman
Role: Beatrice Actor: Mrs Lawson
Role: Waiting Woman Actor: Mrs Robinson
Role: Prologue to Her Royal Highness Actor: Mr Motteux
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mr Motteux.

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Cast
Role: Erato Actor: Mrs Hodgson
Role: Thalia Actor: Mrs Perrin
Role: Terpsichore Actor: Mrs Ayliff
Role: Venus Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Aglaia Actor: Mrs Hodgson
Role: Euphrosyne Actor: Mrs Ayliff
Role: Hora Actor: Mrs Perrin
Role: Jealousy Actor: Mrs Hudson
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mr Bowen.

261
December 1699 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Achilles; Or, Iphigenia In Aulis

Cast
Role: Cheek Esq Actor: Mr Powell
Role: Mr Motteux Actor: Mr Norris
Role: Eriphile Actor: Mrs Wilkins.

262
January 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Marriage-hater Matched

Cast
Role: Lady Subtle Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Lady Bumfiddle Actor: Mrs Cory
Role: Phaebe Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Berenice Actor: Mrs Lassels
Role: La Pupsey Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Margery Actor: Mrs Lawson
Role: speaks Actor: Mr Monford

263
04 July 1672 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Citizen Turned Gentleman

Cast
Role: Lucia Actor: Mrs Bitterton
Role: Marina Actor: Mrs Burroughs
Role: Betty Trickmore Actor: Mrs Leigh

264
19 January 1683 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The City Politiques

Cast
Role: The Prologue Actor: Mr Smith
Role: The Epilogue Actor: Mr Lee in the Character of Bartaline the Old Lawyer.

265
November 1697 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Deceiver Deceived

Cast
Role: Olivio Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Ariana Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Lady Temptyouth Actor: Mrs Lee
Role: Lucinda Actor: Mrs Prince
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Bowen

266
28 November 1682 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duke Of Guise

Cast
Role: Mr Dryden Actor: Mr Smith
Role: Marmoutier Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Mr Dryden Actor: Mrs Cook

267
12 February 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Music: A piece of Instrumental Musick- to be perform'd on the Stage

Song: Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs; particularly a Two/part Song-Mr Laroon, Mrs Hughs compos'd by the late Mr Henry Purcell

Song: Country Farmer's Daughter, Highland Lilt-the Devonshire Girl; The Whip of Dunbyn-Claxton; a new Entry-Mrs Campion, others; A Scotch Dance-Mrs Bicknell; a new Scaramouch Man and Scaramouch Woman-Laferry, Mrs Lucas

268
21 March 1737 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: The Historical Register

Cast
Role: Hen Actor: Mrs Charke
Role: Mrs Screen Actor: Mrs Haywood
Role: Ladies Actor: Mrs Charke, Mrs Haywood, Mrs Lacey, Miss Jones.

269
12 December 1759 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Clive
Role: Songs Actor: Mr Prentis1st appearance on this stage
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Bennet

Afterpiece Title: Love a-la-Mode

Dance: IV: A Dutch Dance-Master Settree, Master Blagdon, Miss Blagdon

270
14 January 1782 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, A Trip To The Jubilee

Cast
Role: Sir Harry Wildair Actor: Mrs Greville
Role: Wife Actor: Mr Pressley
Role: Lady Darling Actor: Mrs Fowler
Role: Lady Lurewell Actor: Mrs Child

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville

Song: End of Act I of afterpiece Horn sweet are the Woodlands by Forrest and Groves. imitations. End of mainpiece, Vocal and Rhetorical, by the Gentleman who performs Beau Clincher

271
03 June 1685 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Albion And Albanius

272
April 1689 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rehearsal

Cast
Role: Bayes Actor: Haines. Mr Haynes His Recantation-Prologue Upon his first Appearance on the Stage After His Return from Rome.

273
May 1691 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur; Or, The British Worthy

Cast
Role: Emmeline Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Matilda Actor: Mrs Richardson
Role: Philidel Actor: Mrs Butler
Role: Prologue to the Opera Actor: Mr Betterton
Role: The Epilogue Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle.

274
April 1692 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cleomenes, The Spartan Heroe

Cast
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Mountfort
Role: Cratisiclea Actor: Mrs Betterton
Role: Cleora Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Cassandra Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Epilogue Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle.

275
April 1693 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Richmond Heiress; Or, A Woman Once In The Right

Cast
Role: Fulvia Actor: Mrs Bracegirdle
Role: Sophronia Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Mrs Stockjobb Actor: Mrs Bowman
Role: Madam Squeamish Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: Marmalette Actor: Mrs Lee
Role: Prologue Actor: Mr Dogget