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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Othello-[S.] Kemble (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage); Roderigo-Bonnor; Cassio-Whitfield; Brabantio-Hull; Lodovico-Davies; Montano-Mahon; Duke-Booth; Gratiano-Fearon; Iago-Henderson; Emilia-Mrs Whitfield; Desdemona (1st time)-Miss Satchell .

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: Hamlet-[J. P.] Kemble (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance upon that stage); King-Packer; Horatio-Farren; Polonius-Baddeley; Laertes-Barrymore; Ostrick-R. Palmer; Rosencraus-Phillimore; Guildenstern-Williames; Player King-Chaplin; Marcellus-Wrighten; Lucianus-Waldron; Gravediggers-Suett, Burton; Ghost-Bensley; Ophelia-Miss Field; Player Queen-Mrs Hedges; Queen-Mrs Hopkins .

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Lionel And Clarissa

Performance Comment: Lionel-Johnstone (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin; 1st appearance in this Kingdom); Col. Oldboy-Wilson; Sir John Flowerdale-Hull; Jenkins-Bannister; Harman-Davies; Jessamy-Sga Sestini (1st appearance in that character); Diana-Miss Wheeler (of DL); Jenny-Mrs Chalmers; Lady Mary Oldboy-Mrs Webb; Clarissa-Mrs Bannister .

Afterpiece Title: Retaliation

Performances

Mainpiece Title: [entertainments Of Music And Dancing] A Grand Symphony By The Celebrated Band Of The Opera House

Performance Comment: The Peasant Metamorphosed, as17840430 Hornpipe, as17840430 A Grand Instrumental Concert. The Country Squabble, as17840430 New Pastoral Pas de Deux by Duquesney Jun. and Mlle Constance (from the Theatre Royal, Paris). The Rival Clowns, as17840430, but added: Mrs Dagville; in which Orpheo, as17840430.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Johnstone; Hawthorn (1st time)-Brett; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Davies; Hodge-Doyle; Justice Woodcock-Wilson; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery-Mrs Wilson; Lucinda (1st time)-Miss Stuart; Rosetta-Miss Wheeler (from the Theatre Royal, Dublin, 1st appearance on this stage) .

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece Pastoral Sports by Harris, Miss Matthews, &c

Event Comment: [Holman is identified on playbill of 5 Nov. Address by John Barwis (European Magazine, Oct. 1784, p. 336, which also lists name of speaker).] Mainpiece: With new Dresses, Scenery and Decorations. In Act I a Masquerade Scene. [This notice is included in all subsequent playbills.] "This easy and natural performance of Holman . . . will prove a fatal blow to the cause of the Attitudinarians and Face-makers; to those who think dramatic excellence consists in . . . finding out meanings that were never meant ... in stretching out their fingers like monkies dying in convulsions ... in uttering their words like minute-guns at royal funerals" (Public Advertiser, 1 Nov.). "Why does Romeo wear black in the last Act? Is it on account of his banishment? He has not heard of Juliet's death" (Gazetteer, 28 Oct.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Romeo And Juliet

Afterpiece Title: The Musical Lady

Song: End of Act IV of mainpiece Juliet's Funeral Procession, with the Solemn Dirge. Vocal Parts by Johnstone, Brett, Baker, Cubitt, Gaudry, Pemberton, Whitaker, Darley, Doyle; Mrs Bannister, Miss Wheeler, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Morton, Miss Stuart, Mrs Davenett, Miss Cranfield, Mrs Kennedy

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

Performance Comment: In which Meadows (from the Theatre Royal [Crow Street], Dublin) will make his 1st appearance in this Kingdom [he probably acted Lubin (see CG, 24 May 1786)]; Solomon-Decastro; the Quaker-Dighton (1st appearance in that character); Floretta-Mrs Benson; Gillian-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [unidentified]) .unidentified]) .

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: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17851208, but Young Meadows-Brett; Hawthorn (1st time)-Johnstone; Lucinda-Mrs Morton; Rosetta-Mrs Billington (from the Theatre Royal [Smock Alley], Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage) .Smock Alley], Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage) .

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Dance: End of Act II of mainpiece The Piping Pedlar, as17851112

Event Comment: [Mathews was from the Royal Circus. Prologue by George Colman the elder (Colman, Prose, ui, 269).] Places for the Boxes to be taken of Rice, at the Theatre. Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. Hunt the Slipper is unavoidably postponed. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece, by Giorgi's Scholars

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Master Degville and Miss De Camp were from the Royal Circus.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Dance: Mainpiece: With The Nosegay by Master Degville and Miss De Camp (their 1st appearance on this stage)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Wycherley, altered by Garrick, and perform'd very often last season, at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, with great applause. Afterpiece: Never acted here. Peeping Tom is obliged to be deferred till Monday next

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The King and the Miller of Mansfield

Song: In the course of the mainpiece a plaintive Pastoral Song, unaccompanied by the orchestra, by the Young Lady; End of Monologue a duett from Robin Hood by Price and Miss Phillips

Monologue: 1786 06 28 End of mainpiece Parents and Children; or, The Chimney-Sweeper and Bricklayer by a Young Gentleman (1st appearance on any stage [Gibbons (see 5 and 19 July)])

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Written by O'Keeffe, Author of The Poor Soldier, &c, and perform'd at the Theatre Royal, Hay-Market, with universal Applause

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Bevil-Williamson; Myrtle-Davies; Sealand-Aickin; Sir John Bevil-Usher; Cimberton-Parsons; Humphrey-Gardner; Daniel-Wewitzer; Tom-Palmer; Phillis-Mrs Smith (from the Theatre Royal, York [on playbill of 12 July: 1st appearance in London]); Lucinda-Miss Brangin; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Love; Isabella-Mrs Poussin; Indiana-Miss Farren .

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Song: In Act II of mainpiece song by Miss Burnett

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr and Mrs Johnston & Miss Williams. Mainpiece: Written by R. Cumberland, Esq., and perform'd at the Theatre-Royal, Drury-Lane, with great Applause. Never acted there. Tickets to be had of Mr and Mrs Johnston & Miss Williams at the Windsor Castle [Inn], Plough and Harrow, Angel, Cock and Magpie, Salutation; and of Waldron, No. 17, Dorville's Row, where places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Natural Son

Afterpiece Title: The Wrangling Lovers; or, Like Master Like Man

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Foundling

Performance Comment: Faddle-Lewis; Sir Charles Raymond-Farren; Colonel Raymond-Pope; Sir Robert Belmont-Fearon; Villiard-Gardner; John-Helme; Young Belmont-Holman; Rossetta-Mrs Mattocks; Fidelia-Miss Wilkinson (from the Theatre Royal, York; 1st appearance on this stage). 1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Performance Comment: Leander-Johnstone; Don Diego-Inchbald (from the Theatre Royal, York [see17860925]); Mungo-Quick; Ursula-Mrs Webb; Leonora-Miss Wilkinson.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Miser

Performance Comment: The Miser-Moss (from the Theatre Royal, Smock Alley, Dublin, 1st appearance on this stage); Frederick-Whitfield; Clerimont-Barrymore; Decoy-Fawcett; James-Burton; Ramilie-Palmer; Mariana-Mrs Brereton; Harriet-Miss Collins; Lappet-Miss Pope.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Mainpiece: In Act I Banquetv. [In Act IV] the Procession from the Abbeyv, at the Coronation of Anne Bullen . To conclude with the Ceremonial of a Royal Christeningv. Public Advertiser, 9 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house in Half-moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #289 8s. (202.6; 2.1; tickets: 85.1)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Song: III: song-Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: The Last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 21 July: Received of Their Majesties and the Princess Royal #66. Receipts: #206 6s. 6d. (195.1.0; 10.8.0; 0.17.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Wroughton; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Lamash (from the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh); William-Baddeley; Sideboard-Burton; John-Phillimore; Sir Bashful Constant-King; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Ward; Muslin-Miss Pope; Lady Constant-Mrs Brereton; Mignionet-Miss Tidswell; Furnish-Mrs Heard; Widow Belmour (with a song in character)-Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Johnstone; Hawthorn-Darley; Hodge-Blanchard (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Davies; Carter-Wewitzer; Footman-Bonville; Cook-Rock; Justice Woodcock-Quick; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Madge-Mrs Wells; Lucinda-Mrs Morton; House Maid-Miss Stuart; Rosetta-Mrs Billington.

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Bernard (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance on this stage); Aimwell-Farren; Father Foigard-Johnstone; Boniface-Booth; Sullen-Fearon; Gibbet-Cubitt; Sir Charles Freeman-Davies; Scrub-Quick; Cherry-Mrs Martyr; Dorinda-Mrs Mountain; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Platt; Gipsey-Miss Brangin; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Bernard (1st appearance on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Dance: End I afterpiece: Mirth by Moonshine-[see17870928]

Event Comment: Mainpiece: In Act I The Banquetv. [In Act IV] the Procession from the Abbeyv at the Coronation of Anne Bullenv. To conclude with the Ceremonial of a Royal Christeningv. Receipts: #145 13s. 6d. (143.15.0; 1.18.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Eighth

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Castle

Song: III: song-Mrs Kennedy

Event Comment: The last Night of the Company's performing this Season. [As 2nd and 3rd pieces the playbill announces, respectively, The Maid of the Oaks and The Farmer, but they were not acted. Their substitutes are listed in the Account-Book, and both are reviewed in Morning Chronicle, 10 June.] Account-Book, 13 June: Received [stage] Forfeits #42; 20 June: Received from Their Majesties for the Box #60, from the Princess Royal for the Box #30; 10 July: Paid Lewis for Management from Lady Day 1785 to Midsummer 1788 #650. Receipts: #147 19s. 6d. (141.18.6; 6.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Marian

Afterpiece Title: The Midnight Hour

Afterpiece Title: Animal Magnetism

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Oaks

Performance Comment: Dupely-R. Palmer; Old Groveby-Baddeley; Sir Harry Groveby-Davies; Oldworth-Aickin; Hurry-Edwin; Maria-Mrs Kemble; Lady Bab Lardoon-Miss Prideaux (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearabce on this stage). 1st appearabce on this stage).

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Dance: End 2nd piece: New Dance-Byrn, Miss DeCamp, Mrs Goodwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Touchstone-Palmer; Orlando-Kemble; Amiens (with songs)-Williames; Duke Senior-Aickin; Adam-Moody; Oliver-Packer; Duke Frederick-Chaplin; William-Burton; Le Beu-Lamash; Silvius-Benson; Jaques de Bois-Fawcett; Corin-Waldron; Charles-Phillimore; Jaques-Wroughton; Caelia-Mrs Wilson; the Cuckoo Song-Mrs Wilson; Audrey-Mrs Booth; Phoebe-Miss Barnes; Rosalind-Mrs Goodall (from the Theatre Royal, Bath; 1st appearance in London). 1st appearance in London).

Afterpiece Title: The Lying Valet

Dance: End I: As17880916

Song: In V: song-Mrs Forster