Event Comment: Benefit for
Whitfield. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2] Translated from the
French [
La Nuit aux Aventures; on, Les Deux Morts Vivants, by
Antoine Jean Bourlin, dit
Dumaniant] by
Mrs Inchbald, the Author of
I'll Tell You What,
Such Things Are,
A Simple Story, &c. [
Larpent MS 900; not published. In 1797 altered by
J. C. Cross as
An Escape into Prison. "In January 1788
Mrs Inchbald was translating an unnamed
French play, acted three years later as
The Hue and Cry" (James
Boaden, Memoirs of Mrs Inchbald, 1833, I, 255-56). "
Mrs Inchbald is now adapting La Nuit aux Aventures, by Dumaniant" (
World, 26 Jan. 1788). In the text of Dumaniant's play the dramatis personae is the same as that in the Larpent MS. Author of Prologue unknown.]
Morning Chronicle, 30 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Whitfield, No. 19,
Great Piazza,
Covent-Garden. Receipts: #263 13s. (68.19.0; 31.7.6; 3.13.6; tickets: 159.13.0) (charge: #116 4s. 4d.)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Love For Love
Afterpiece Title: The Hue and Cry
Performance Comment: Characters-Whitfield Hollingsworth, Bland, Bannister Jun., Burton, Suett, Phillimore, Williames, Maddocks, Lyons, Alfred, Webb, Miss Collins, Mrs Williames; Larpent MS lists the parts: Count Abeville, Don Lewis, Don Juan, Perroquet, Fabio, Sanchez, Corregidore, Jailor, Grim, Donna Leonora, Inis. Prologue-Bannister Jun.Cast
Role: Characters Actor: Whitfield Hollingsworth, Bland, Bannister Jun., Burton, Suett, Phillimore, Williames, Maddocks, Lyons, Alfred, Webb, Miss Collins, Mrs WilliamesRole: Prologue Actor: Bannister Jun.Related Works
Related Work: The Hue and Cry Author(s): Elizabeth Inchbald
Related Work: An Escape into Prison Author(s): Elizabeth Inchbald
Related Work: Hue and Cry Author(s): Elizabeth Inchbald