SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "P A Motteux"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "P A Motteux")') 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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We found 1654 matches on Event Comments, 313 matches on Performance Comments, 143 matches on Author, 18 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Follies Of A Day

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Elysium; Or, Foote, Weston, And Shuter In The Shades (as Performed For Wilson's Benefit Last Season, At The Above Theatre [on 10 Aug

Afterpiece Title: The Miser

Afterpiece Title: Twistings and Twinings; or, Tea's the Twaddle

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: 3rd piece to conclude with Tippee against Twaddle by Wilson

Monologue: 1785 02 12 Following the Singing Joe Haynes's Epilogue, riding on an ass, by Wilson. imitations. End of Act I of 4th piece Imitations, Vocal and Rhetorical, by way of Dialogue. A Gentleman (1st appearance [unidentified]) will take off the Speakers, and Decastro will take off the Singers, with a Dying Scene. After which, Plank, the carpenter, will take them both off

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Demetrio

Dance: End of Act I Il Convito degli Dei, as17850205; End of Opera an entirely new Divertisement (composed by Lepicq) Le Jugement de Paris by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival, Frederic, Sga Angiolini. [Music by Francois Hippolyte Barthelemon (London Magazine, Feb. 1785, p. 141).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Samson

Music: End of Part I concerto on the Piano Forte ["the sixth concerto of Schroeter's last set [i.e. Op. V]" (London Magazine, Mar. 1785, p. 217)] by Miss Parke

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Israelites; or, The Pamper'd Nabob

Dance: As17841116

Song: Preceding afterpiece a Trio, composed by an English composer in 1540 [unidentified], by Davies, Darley, Brett. The new Words by Holcroft, the new Accompaniments by Shield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: The Nunnery

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Artaserse

Dance: As17850329hroughout

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex; Or, The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist; or, Who's Who

Dance: As17850307athi

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: I Viaggiatori Felici

Dance: End of Act I an entirely New Divertissement (1st time; composed by Simonet) by Lepicq, Mme Rossi, Sg and Sga Angiolini, Zuchelli, Mme Bithmer, Duquesney, Miss Harvey, Frederic, Nivelon, Mlle Dorival; End of Opera The Deserter, as17850614

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Turk, And No Turk

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All's Well That Ends Well

Afterpiece Title: The Green Room; or, Cut and Come Again

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Two Connoisseurs

Afterpiece Title: Here and There and Every Where

Dance: In afterpiece, by Byrne, Ratchford, Giorgi Jun., Miss Francis, Miss Rowson, Mrs Invill, Giorgi's Scholars, the two Miss Simonets. [The dances were included, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: St

Dance: End of mainpiece The Merry Sailors by Byrn, &c

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Philaster

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Omai; or, A Trip round the World

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Song: In Act II a song in character by Mrs Crouch. [This was For tenderness formed, adapted by Linley Sen. from Saper bramate in; Barbiere di Siviglia by Paisiello. It was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Dance: As17851007

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Projects

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Lucky Return, as17860105

Song: In Act V of mainpiece a song by Mrs Forster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Messiah

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Peruvian

Afterpiece Title: The Country Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Bird In A Cage; Or, Money Works Wonders

Afterpiece Title: The Drummer; or, The Haunted House

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Grand Dana of Ladies [performers not listed]; End of mainpiece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd [performers not listed, but see17860304

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fashionable Lover

Afterpiece Title: Annette and Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Country Mad Cap; or, Miss Lucy in Town

Dance: End of 2nd piece The Drunken Sailor Reclaim'd, as17860424

Song: End of Act II of 1st piece a new song, Toung Henry, by Mrs Martyr

Monologue: 1786 05 09 Before 1st piece a new Occasional Address spoken by Holman