Event Comment: Mainpiece in place of She Wou'd and She Wou'd Not, advertised on playbill of 4 June.] Receipts: #194 9s. (119.8; 60.13; 14.8)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Colley Cibber; With Alterations. Not Acted these 12 years [acted 10 May 1784]. With new Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. Receipts: #275 19s. 6d. (194.3.6; 78.19.0; 2.17.0)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 2 years. Receipts: #214 5s. (200.9; 7.2; 6.14). [Half-price was taken on this night, but see 26 Jan.

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; INT 1 by Francis Godolphin Waldron): Altered from THE FATAL EXTRAVAGANCE of [Joseph] Mitchell and Aaron Hill. "I went on Monday evening with Mrs Darner to the Little Haymarket, to see The Children in the Wood, having heard so much of my favourite, young Bannister, in that new piece; which, by the way, is well arranged, and near being fine. He more than answered my expectation, and all I had heard of him. It was one of the most admirable performances I ever saw: his transports of despair and joy are incomparable, and his various countenances would be adequate to the pencil of Salvator Rosa. He made me shed as many tears as I suppose the original old ballad did when I was six years old. Bannister's merit was the more striking, as, before The Children in the Wood, he had been playing the sailor in No Song No Supper, with equal nature" (Walpole [4 Dec. 1793], XV, 266-67)