SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "R Ford"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "R Ford")') 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 1864 matches on Performance Comments, 251 matches on Event Comments, 31 matches on Performance Title, 7 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Afterpiece Title: The Guardian

Song: As17970816

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Italian Monk

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Song: As17970816

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Performance Comment: Sir Rowland-Barrymore; Lord Alford-Dignum; Walter-Bannister Jun.; Apathy-Suett; Gabriel-R. Palmer; Lady Helen-Mrs Powell; Josephine-Mrs Bland; Winifred-Miss Tidswell; Children-Master Menage, Master Chatterley.
Cast
Role: Lord Alford Actor: Dignum

Song: In III: a song-Dignum

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Will

Afterpiece Title: The Prize; or, 2, 5, 3, 8

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Chimney Corner

Song: In V: song-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: Sir Clement Flint-King; Clifford-Wroughton; Lord Gayville-Palmer; Alscrip-Suett; Chignon-Wewitzer; Mr Blandish-Holland; Prompt-R. Palmer; Rightly-Aickin; Chairman-Wentworth; Servant-Webb; Lady Emily-A Young Lady (1st appearance on this stage [Miss Humphries]); Miss Alscrip-Miss Pope; Miss Alton-Mrs Crouch; Mrs Sagely-Mrs Maddocks; Tiffany-Miss Tidswell; Mrs Blandish-Miss Heard.
Cast
Role: Clifford Actor: Wroughton

Afterpiece Title: The Children in the Wood

Cast
Role: Lord Alford Actor: Dignum

Entertainment: Entertainment. Not listed on playbill (see17971016). Morning Herald, 16 Oct.: A representation of the late engagement with the Dutch-; was unexpectedly given after the play. It was followed by some fire@works-, in which was a star, ending after various mutations in a sun, emblematic of British Glory!

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Wandering Jew

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Wheel Of Fortune

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Enchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: Doiley-Suett; Sandford-R. Palmer; Granger-Barrymore; Gradus-Bannister Jun.; Elizabeth-Miss Heard; Charlotte-Miss Mellon.
Cast
Role: Sandford Actor: R. Palmer

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Sedgwick, Dignum, Caulfield, Danby, Brown, Fisher, Evans, Phillimore, Ms Leak, Ms Arne, Ms Wentworth, Ms Butler, Ms Jackson, Ms Benson, Ms Menage, Ms Roffey, Ms Gaudry

Monologue: V: The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. Neptune-Sedgwick; Amphitrite-Miss Dufour

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Smugglers

Song: As17971107

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Song: 1st piece: as17971209

Monologue: The Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. As 9 Dec

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performance Comment: Whimsey-Hollingsworth; Monford-Caulfield; Young Whimsey-R. Palmer; Tim Tartlett-Bannister Jun.; Furnish-Suett; Simon-Russell; Mrs Patypan-Mrs Walcot; Charlotte-Miss Heard; Nancy-Miss Tidswell.
Cast
Role: Monford Actor: Caulfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Trip To Scarborough

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belle's Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: First Love

Afterpiece Title: Blue-Beard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle-spectre

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. 1st piece [1st time; MF 2. Larpent MS 1210; not published]: Written by Charles? Dibdin, Founded on his Popular Novel under that Title, and enriched with a Selection of his most recent and favourite Songs. Do conclude with a new Finale by Dibdin. The Overture by Dibdin. "[It is a] wretched inanity; without interest, without humour, without character, original only in its dullness and unmatchable absurdity" (Monthly Mirror, May 1798, p. 306). 2nd piece: Compressed into Three Acts. 3rd piece: By permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre Royal Hay-Market. Morning Herald, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 65, Gower-street, Bedford-square. Receipts: #511 13s. 6d. (251.7.6; 68.7.0; 1.13.0; tickets: 190.6.0) (charge: #212 19s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hannah Hewit; Or, The Female Crusoe

Afterpiece Title: The Inconstant

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Song: End I 1st piece: The Sailor's Consolation- made into a Song and Chorus