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7572 results for: Keyword - Robert King
We found 3542 matches on Performance Comments, 2727 matches on Performance Title, 1854 matches on Event Comments, 947 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

726
11 January 1729 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Mills; Edgar-Elrington; Edmund-Wm. Mills; Gloster-Roberts; Kent-Williams; Gentleman Usher-Cibber Jr; Cordelia-Mrs Booth; Goneril-Mrs Grace; Regan-Mrs Shireburn.
Cast
Role: Gloster Actor: Roberts

727
16 December 1734 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Delane; Adrastus-Giffard; Creon-Hulett; Tiresias-Lyon; Haemon-W. Giffard; Alcander-Bardin; Diodes-Richardson; Pyracmon-Harbin; Ghost of Laius-Huddy; Aegeon-Rosco; Phorbas-Havard; Jocasta-Mrs Roberts; Eurydice-Mrs Giffard; Citizens-Penkethman, Wetherilt, Norris, Monlass .
Cast
Role: Jocasta Actor: Mrs Roberts

Music: With the Original Music, the Vocal Parts by Nichols, Mrs Chambers, Miss Jones

728
22 August 1738 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amasis, King Of Egypt

Performance Comment: Parts-Stephens, Hallam, Roberts, Stevens, Mrs Vincent; edition of 1738 lists no actors' names of parts. edition of 1738 lists no actors' names of parts.
Cast
Role: Parts Actor: Stephens, Hallam, Roberts, Stevens, Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Yorkshireman

729
10 February 1739 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Delane; Jocasta-Mrs Hallam; Adrastus-Hale; Creon-Bridgwater; Haemon-Hallam; Aegeon-Rosco; Phorbas-Ryan; Ghost of Laius-Stephens; Tiresias-Roberts; Alcander-Hill; Pyracmon-Stevens; Diocles-Arthur; Dymas-Clarke; Eurydice-Mrs Ware; Citizens-Hippisley, Chapman, Mullart, Penkethman, Neale, James, Stoppelaer, W. Hallam.*a1739 2 10 cg Margery. As17381209.*d1739 2 10 cg As17381203, but Dances-_Haughton.
Cast
Role: Tiresias Actor: Roberts

730
15 January 1740 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Delane; Jocasta-Mrs Hallam; Adrastus-Hale; Creon-Bridgwater; Haemon-Hallam; Aegeon-Rosco; Phorbas-Ryan; Ghost of Laius-Stephens; Tiresias-Roberts; Alcander-Gibson; Pyracmon-A. Ryan; Diocles-Arthur; Dymas-Clark; Citizens-Hippisley, James, Mullart, Neale, Smith, Harrington, Stoppelaer; Eurydice-Miss Burgess.
Cast
Role: Tiresias Actor: Roberts

Dance: CComic Ballet-Villeneuve, Miss Oates; Tambourine-French Girl; Miller and His Wife-French Boy and Girl

Song: TThe Parting Lovers-Laguerre, Salway, Mrs Lampe

731
19 November 1740 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Oedipus-Milward; Creon-Quin; Adrastus-Mills; Haemon-Havard; Phorbas-Wright; Tiresias-Berry; Aegeon-Cashell; Diocles-Winstone; Pyracmon-Stevens; Alcander-Ridout; Dymas-Green; Citizens-Chapman, Turbutt, Shepard, Taswell, Marten, Ray, Hough; Jocasta-Mrs Roberts; Eurydice-Mrs Mills; Manto (with the Hymn to Apollo)-Mrs Clive.
Cast
Role: Jocasta Actor: Mrs Roberts

Music: With new Musick The Songs, Choruses new by Mr Arne-Lowe, Savage, Mrs Clive

732
02 April 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Performance Comment: Tiresias the Prophet-Dr Clancy who is Blind; Oedipus-Delane; Creon-Bridges; Adrastus-Mills; Haemon-Havard; Phorbas-Berry; Aegeon-W. Giffard; Manto-Miss Budgell; Citizens-Yates, Taswell, Neale, Morgan, Arthur, Dunstall, Collins; Ghost of Laius-Woodburn; Diocles-Winstone; Pyracmon-Turbutt; Alcander-Blakes; Dymas-Green; Jocasta-Mrs Roberts; Euridice-Mrs Mills.
Cast
Role: Jocasta Actor: Mrs Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The School Boy

733
21 April 1789 @ King's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A gala Sponsored By brooks's Club, Celebration Of king's Recovery [and See 15, 24 Apr

Performance Comment: 11 May]. [Shortly before midnight an overture-; [was played, followed by a duet-Kelly, Sga Storace, [assisted by a Chorus; music by Mazzinghi-; An Ode by Robert Merry-Mrs Siddons; [dressed "a la Britannia, with a spear, standing on a raised stage...This being finished a Transparent Paintingv dropped upon her, and she was no more seen." The Ode was concluded at 12:30, and Rule Britannia-[ was sung. Supper was served at two o'clock, but no dancing was possible because of the large number of guests. "Many persons were not gone at six in the morning." The price of seven tickets was 25 guineas (World, 22, 23 Apr.). was sung. Supper was served at two o'clock, but no dancing was possible because of the large number of guests. "Many persons were not gone at six in the morning." The price of seven tickets was 25 guineas (World, 22, 23 Apr.).
Cast
Role: Robert Merry Actor: Mrs Siddons

734
18 September 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Haunted Tower

Performance Comment: Lord William-Kelly; Baron of Oakland-Baddeley; Edward-Bannister Jun.; Lewis-Suett; Robert-Dignum; Charles-Sedgwick; Hugo-Moody; De Courcy-Whitfield; Martin-Hollingsworth; Lady Elinor-Miss DeCamp; Adela-Sga Storace; Cicely-Mrs Bland; Maud-Mrs Booth.
Cast
Role: Robert Actor: Dignum

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

735
23 February 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Slighted Maid

Performance Comment: Edition of 1663: Salerno-Harris; Iberio-Betterton; Filomarini-Metborn; Lugo-Smith; Arviedo-Cadiman; Corbulo-Young; Peralta-Underhill; Gioseppe-the Elder Noke; Vindex-Sandford; Decio-Mrs Gibbs; Pyramena-Mrs Betterton; Diacelia-Mrs Long; Leandra-Mrs Williams; Menanthe-the Younger Noke; Joan-Turner; Instrumental Vocal and Recitative Musick by Mr John? Banister-; the Prologue to the King-; the Prologue to the House-; the Epilogue-The Slighted Maid; Epilogue to the King-.
Cast
Role: the Prologue to the King Actor:
Role: Epilogue to the King Actor: .
Related Works
Related Work: The Slighted Maid Author(s): Sir Robert Stapylton

736
October 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Step-mother

Performance Comment: Edition of 1664: Sylvanus-Sandford; Filamor-Bettertun; Adolph-Young; Tetrick-Underhill; Fromund-Price; Crispus-Smith; Capito-Metborn; Gracchus-Lovell; Sergius-Rob. Noke; Pontia-Mrs Williams; Caesarina-Mrs Bettertun; Violinda-Mrs Davies; Brianella-Mrs Long; The Prologue to the King- at the Cockpit at White-Hall; The Prologue to the Stage-; The Epilogue to the House-the Step-Mother; The Epilogue to the King-; Instrumental Vocal Recitative Musick by Mr Lock-.
Cast
Role: The Prologue to the King Actor: at the Cockpit at White-Hall
Role: The Epilogue to the King Actor:
Related Works
Related Work: The Step-Mother Author(s): Sir Robert Stapylton

737
18 April 1749 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Roberts

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: As17481128, but Tom-Cibber; Song in II, Lothario-Roberts; Song-_Lowe.
Cast
Role: Lothario Actor: Roberts

Afterpiece Title: The King and Miller

Cast
Role: King Actor: Gibson

Song: IV: The Smiling Hours-Roberts

Dance: V: Comic Dance-J. Granier, J. Granier's Sister

738
06 June 1796 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: The Last Night of the Company's performing this Season. [Account-Book: Tickets delivered by Mrs Lloyd, W. Bayzand, Timkins (box-keeper), Street, Barnes, Morris, Rye, Dosel, Wells, King, Timkins (carpenter), Thompson (near Stage), Coates, Roberts, Thompson, (gallery door-keeper) will be admitted.] Receipts: #419 1s. (38.16; after-money: not listed; tickets: 380.5)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimick

Dance: End: a Scotch Reel-Bayzand, King, Mlle St.Amand

Related Works
Related Work: The Tragedy of King Henry IV of France Author(s): Charles Beckingham

739
08 April 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: We three [Mrs Pepys, Mercer, and Pepys] to the King's house, and saw the latter end of the Surprisall, wherein was no great matter,I thought, by what I saw there

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprisal

Related Works
Related Work: The Surprisal Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

740
13 August 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: Sir W. Pen and I to the King's house, and there saw The Committee, which I went to with some prejudice, not liking it before, but I do now find it a very good play, and a great deal of good invention in it; but Lacy's part is so well performed that it would set off anything

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

741
26 August 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I walked to the King's playhouse, there to meet Sir W. Pen, and saw The Surprizall, a very mean play, I thought; or else it was because I was out of humour, and but very little company in the house. But there Sir W. Pen had a good deal of discourse with Moll Meggs?; who tells us that Nell Gwyn? is already left by my Lord Buckhurst, and that he makes sport of her, and swears she hath had all she could get of him; and Hart, her great admirer, now hates ner; and that she is very poor, and hath lost my Lady Castlemayne, who was her great friend also: but she is come to the House, but is neglected by them all

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprisal

Related Works
Related Work: The Surprisal Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

742
28 October 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife, and Mercer, who grows fat, and Willett, and I, to the King's house, and there saw The Committee, a play I like well

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

743
26 December 1667 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. See Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 322, for an L. C. order concerning Mohun's not acting for some time past. Pepys, Diary: With my wife to the King's playhouse, and there saw The Surprizall; which did not please me to-day, the actors not pleasing me; and especially Nell's acting of a serious part, which she spoils

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

Related Works
Related Work: The Surprisal Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

744
17 April 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: With Brouncker, to the King's house, and saw The Surprizall, where base singing, only Knepp, who come, after her song in the clouds, to me in the pit, and there, oranges, 2s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

Related Works
Related Work: The Surprisal Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

745
18 April 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, 1s., and to the play of the Duke of Lerma, 2s. 6d., and oranges, 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Great Favourite; Or, The Duke Of Lerma

Related Works
Related Work: The Great Favourite; or, The Duke of Lerma Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

746
01 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Surprizall: and a disorder in the pit by its raining in, from the cupola at top, it being a very foul day, and cold

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surprizal

Related Works
Related Work: The Surprisal Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

747
15 May 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: I to the King's house, and there saw the last act of The Committee, thinking to have seen Knepp there, but she did not act

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

748
27 June 1668 @ The (first) Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: My wife, and Deb., and I to the King's playhouse, and saw The Indian Queene, but do not doat upon Nan Marshall's acting therein, as the world talks of her excellence therein

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Related Works
Related Work: The Indian Queen Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

749
30 December 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre or Dorset Garden Theatre

Event Comment: The United Company. This performance is on the L. C. list, 5@147, p. 125. See also Nicoll, Restoration Drama, p. 350. Peregrine Bertie to the Countess of Rutland, 31 Dec. 1685: Yesterday was acted The Committee. The King and Queen were there and all the whole Court went to see it, but coming a little after it was begun [I] could not get any roome (HMC, 12th Report, Appendix, Rutland MSS., Part V, Vol. II, p. 100). Bridget Noel to the Countess of Rutland, ca. 6 Jan. 1685@6: [Last Wednesday] my Lady Exeter engaged us to goe to a play with her...which was a Commity. The King and Queen was at it, and the house as full as ever I saw it (ibid.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

750
20 January 1743 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee

Performance Comment: As17421009, but Mrs Chat-Mrs King.
Cast
Role: Mrs Chat Actor: Mrs King.
Related Works
Related Work: The Committee; or, The Faithful Irishman Author(s): Sir Robert Howard
Related Work: The Committee Author(s): Sir Robert Howard

Song: I: Beard; III: Lowe

Related Works
Related Work: Mordecai's Beard Author(s): Robert Baddeley

Dance: II: Neopolitan Punch, as17430114; IV: Italian Gardeners, as17421231