Event Comment: FFoote play'd
Ben ,
Miss Macklin Miss Prue ,
Mrs Clive Mrs Frail . Foote cou'd not sing ye
Song in
Ben, so said two or three times, I can't do it & upon a little Hissing, said, Gentlemen I have no talents for singing-ye whole play Hum (
Cross). [Opposed to Cross's summary of the effect of the performance appeared in
Gray's Inn Journal the
Murphy account (19 Jan.): The excellent Comedy of
Love for Love has been revived here this week, the humorous and diverting Part of
Ben, the sailor, was performed with great pleasantry by Mr Foote, who showed by his manner and his looks, that he had entered into the secret of the character, tho' twas visible at the same time, that his powers were greatly suppressed by his solicitude for his first appearance in a new character. It may be said of Miss Macklin, tho perhaps better qu
alified for spirited genteel comedy, that she acquitted herself with great applause in a part in which Mrs Clive has displayed so many inimitable strokes of humour."] Receipts: #160 (Cross)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Love For Love
Performance Comment: Ben-Foote; Sir Sampson Legend-Berry; Mrs Frail-Mrs Clive; Miss Prue-Miss Macklin (being their first appearance in those characters); Valentine-Havard; Scandal-Palmer; Foresight-Taswell; Jeremy-Blakes; Tattle-Woodward; Trapland-W. Vaughan; Nurse-Mrs James; Mrs Foresight-Mrs Bennet; Angelica-Miss Haughton.Afterpiece Title: The Chaplet
Dance: III: A Hornpipe-Granier