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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Englishman in Paris

Performance Comment: Buck-Lee Lewes; Sir John Buck-Fearon; Subtle-Thompson; Marquis-Wewitzer; Classic-Hull; Mrs Subtle-Mrs Pitt; Lucinda (with a song)-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: Sir John Buck Actor: Fearon

Dance: III: a Hornpipe-Miss Besford; Afterpiece: a Minuet-Dagueville, Mrs Mattocks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Duenna

Afterpiece Title: The Lyar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Lee Lewes; Old Wilding-Fearon; Sir James Elliot-Whitfield; Papillon-Wewitzer; Miss Godfrey-Miss Ambrose; Miss Grantham-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Sir James Elliot Actor: Whitfield

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Percy

Performance Comment: Percy-Lewis; Raby-Aickin; Sir Hubert-Hull; Edrick-Whitfield; Harcourt-Robson; Knight-Thompson; Douglas-Wroughton; Birtha-Mrs Jackson; Elwina-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Sir Hubert Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17781002, but Sir Jealous Traffic-Thompson; Miranda-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Sir Jealous Traffic Actor: Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Cast
Role: Sir Peter Teazle Actor: King
Role: Sir Oliver Surface Actor: Yates
Role: Sir Benjamin Backbite Actor: Dodd

Afterpiece Title: High Life below Stairs

Performance Comment: Lovel-Lamash; Sir Harry's Servant-Dodd; Duke's Servant-Palmer; Philip-Baddeley; Freeman-Fawcett; Lady Charlotte-Mrs Davies; Lady Bab-Mrs Johnston; Kitty (with a song)-Miss Pope.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry's Servant Actor: Dodd

Dance: II afterpiece: a Mock Minuet-Palmer, Miss Pope. [This was danced, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Song: As17781006

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Performance Comment: Archer-Lewis; Aimwell-Wroughton; Boniface-Booth; Sullen-Clarke; Foigard-Egan; Sir Charles Freeman-Robson; Gibbet-Fearon; Scrub-Quick; Dorinda-Mrs Lessingham; Lady Bountiful-Mrs Poussin; Cherry-Miss Brown; Mrs Sullen-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Freeman Actor: Robson

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake

Performance Comment: Lord Wronglove-Wroughton; Sir Friendly Moral-Hull; Brush-Booth; Surgeon-Fearon; Snug-Jones; Stranger-R? Smith; Lord George Brilliant-Lewis; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Jackson; Lady Gentle-Mrs Bulkley; Miss Notable-Mrs Mattocks; Mrs Hartshorn-Mrs Pitt; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Lessingham.
Cast
Role: Sir Friendly Moral Actor: Hull

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Stoops To Conquer

Performance Comment: Hardcastle-Wilson; Tony Lumpkin-Quick; Marlow-Lee Lewes; Hastings-Whitfield; Sir Charles Marlow-Fearon; Mrs Hardcastle-Mrs Green; Miss Neville-Mrs Whitfield; Miss Hardcastle-Mrs Bulkley.
Cast
Role: Sir Charles Marlow Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Touchstone

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Smith; Lord Trinket-Dodd; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Charles-Farren; Russet-Aickin; Capt. O'Cutter-Moody; Tom-Wright; Paris-Waldron; Major Oakly-Yates; Lady Freelove-Mrs Hopkins; Harriet-Mrs Brereton; Mrs Oakly-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Wonders of Derbyshire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows (1st time)-Mrs Kennedy; new songs(composed by Michael? Arne)-Mrs Kennedy; Hawthorn-Reinhold; Sir William Meadows-Fearon; Eustace-Mahon; Hodge (1st time)-Doyle; Justice Woodcock-Wilson; Deborah-Mrs Pitt; Margery-Miss Valois; Lucinda-Mrs Morton; Rosetta-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Thornton]).Miss Thornton]).
Cast
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Fearon

Afterpiece Title: The Reprisal

Dance: As17781201

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Countess Of Salisbury

Performance Comment: Alwin-Smith (1st appearance in that character); Grey-Aickin; Morton-Farren; Sir Ardolph-Packer; Laroches-Chaplin; Peasant-Wright; Knights-Philimore, Fawcett, Norris; Lord William-Miss G. Abrams; Raymond-Palmer; Eleanor-Miss Sherry; Countess of Salisbury-Miss Younge (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Sir Ardolph Actor: Packer

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: End: Minuet de la Cour, as17780919; Allemande, as17780919

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Cast
Role: Sir Wilful Witwou'd Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: Britons, Strike Home

Performance Comment: ; or, The Sailor's Rehearsal. Principal Characters-Vernon, Aickin, Bannister, Baddeley, Wrighten, Burton, Norris. [Edition of 1739 lists the parts: Captain Briton, Lieutanant Meanwell, Sir John Freehold, Export, Dapperwit, Foremost, Bowsprit, Father Dominique, Capstern, Starboard, Helmaloe, Don Jack, Don Uric, Kitty.]Edition of 1739 lists the parts: Captain Briton, Lieutanant Meanwell, Sir John Freehold, Export, Dapperwit, Foremost, Bowsprit, Father Dominique, Capstern, Starboard, Helmaloe, Don Jack, Don Uric, Kitty.]
Related Works
Related Work: Britons Strike Home; or, The Sailors' Rehearsal Author(s): Edward Phillips

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Annette And Lubin

Afterpiece Title: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy

Performance Comment: Captain Mizen-Dodd (of dl); Captain Worthy-Wroughton; Sir Charles Pleasant-Whitfield; Lieut. Cribbage-Booth; Lieut. Easy-Fearon; Binnacle-Wilson; Hatchway (with songs)-Mahon; Commodore Flip-Lee Lewes; Arabella-Miss Ambrose; Belinda-Miss Leeson; Jenny Private-Miss Platt; Jiltup-Mrs White; Dorcas Zeal-Mrs Bulkley.
Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Edward Thompson

Afterpiece Title: The Author

Dance: In Naval Review: Dance of Sailors-Aldridge, others

Song: End Dance: the Air [in The Comedy of Errors see17790122]-Mrs Kennedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Deception

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Dodd, Parsons, Aickin, Baddeley, Waldron, Farren, Nash, Bidwell, Palmer, Miss Farren, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Brereton, Miss Pope. Cast from London Chronicle, 30 Apr.: Flippant-Dodd; Welford-Parsons; Fairgrove-Aickin; Rudely-Baddeley; Robin-Waldron; Charles Fairgrove-Farren; Sir Harry Varnish-Palmer; Louisa Freemore-Miss Farren; Lady Varnish-Mrs Hopkins; Sophia Welford-Mrs Brereton; Kitty-Miss Pope; Nash, Bidwell are unassigned. For Prologue and Epilogue see17790506. Nash, Bidwell are unassigned. For Prologue and Epilogue see17790506.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Varnish Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Edward Thompson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: As17790106, but Sir George Airy-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance on this stage [unidentified]); Whisper-R.? Smith; Isabinda-Mrs Whitfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Liverpool Prize

Dance: As17790302

Music: End IV: trumpet concerto-Sarjant

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer's Return from London

Afterpiece Title: Gallic Gratitude; or, The Frenchman in India

Performance Comment: Characters by Wewitzer, Fearon, Robson, Thompson, L'Estrange, Mrs Morton, Miss Leeson. Cast from text (E. Johnson, 1779): La Bronze-Wewitzer; Cossim-Fearon; Haroun-Robson; Decca-Thompson; Sir ThomasCallico-L'Estrange; Ali-Jones; Derby O'Rudder-Egan; Teresa-Mrs Morton; Harriet-Miss Leeson; Prologue-Mrs Jackson in the character of Britannia.
Cast
Role: Sir ThomasCallico Actor: L'Estrange

Song: In 3rd piece: the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Miss Thornton, Mrs Wrighten

Event Comment: Benefit for Reddish [and his last appearance on the stage]. Tickets sold at the Doors will not be admitted. Public Advertiser, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Reddish, No. 14, near the Turnpike, Tottenham Court Road. "Poor Reddish, on the 5th of May, had a benefit, and it was resolved to try whether he could not go through the character of Posthumus. He was now infirm; in common occurrences imbecile, but to be exited by his former profession, or nothing. The late John Ireland gave an affecting detail of this attempt. He met his friend an hour before the performance began. Reddish entered the room with the step of an idiot, his eye wandering, and his whole countenance vacant. Mr Ireland congratulated him, that he was sufficiently recovered to perform his favourite Posthumus. 'Yes', said he, 'and in the garden scene I shall astonish you.' 'The garden scene! I thought you were to play Posthumus?' 'No, Sir, I play Romeo.' His friend assured him that Posthumus was the part he was to act--and he walked to the theatre, reciting Romeo all the way. When dressed for Posthumus, and in the green-room, it was still hard to undeceive him--at length he was pushed upon the stage....The instant he came in sight of the audience his recollection seemed to return; his countenance resumed meaning, his eye became lighted up, he made the modest bow of respect, and played the scene as well as he had ever done. But Romeo again met him in the green-room, and it was only the stage cue that had the power to unsettle this delusion; and that never failed to do it through the whole play. Mr Ireland thought him, on this occasion, less assuming and more natural than he had seemed in the full enjoyment of his reason" (Boaden, Kemble, I, XVI-XVII; Ireland, 58-60)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Sir Charles Racket Actor: Lewis

Dance: As17781024

Song: As17781024

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Cast
Role: Prince Edward Actor: Miss Field

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon (1st time)-Griffiths; Sir Jacob Jollup-Waldron; Mr Bruin-Wright; Lint-Wrighten; Heeltap-Burton; Jerry Sneak (1st time)-Holcroft; Mrs Bruin-Miss Kirby; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Wrighten.
Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Jollup Actor: Waldron

Dance: In: Master Morey, 3 Miss Stageldoirs

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Cast
Role: Sir Richard Vernon Actor: Farren

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Candidates

Performance Comment: Byron-Vernon; Sir Harry Muff-Dodd; General Worry-Parsons; Spy-Baddeley; Gardeners-Fawcett, Chaplin, Holcroft; Jenny-Mrs Wrighten; Narcissa-Miss Kirby.
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Muff Actor: Dodd

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Performance Comment: Colonel Feignwell-Palmer; Sir Philip Modelove-Baddeley; Obadiah Prim-Moody; Freeman-Philimore; Sackbut-Griffiths; Tradelove-Hurst; Simon Pure-R. Palmer; Perriwinkle-Parsons; Mrs Prim-Mrs Bradshaw; Masked Lady-Miss Kirby; Betty-Mrs Smith; Ann Lovely-Miss Farren (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Sir Philip Modelove Actor: Baddeley

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Related Works
Related Work: The Fair Quaker; or, The Humours of the Navy Author(s): Edward Thompson

Dance: End IV: a Hornpipe-Walker

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Justice Woodcock to Parsons, and as afterpiece announces Tony Lumpkin in Town, but "In consequence of Parsons' illness, Edwin played the part of Justice Woodcock, with which he seems well acquainted; and he plays it with great pleasantry in his own particular style of humour....Parsons' illness also prevented the performance of Tony Lumpkin in Town, and Nature will Prevail was substituted" (Gazetteer, 8 June).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Young Meadows-Wood (from the Theatre Royal, York; 1st appearance in London); Justice Woodcock-Edwin; Sir William Meadows-Aickin; Hodge-Jackson [Public Advertiser: Massey]; Eustace-Lamash; Hawthorn-Bannister; Lucinda-Mrs Hitchcock; Margery-Miss Twist; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Rosetta-Miss Harper.
Cast
Role: Justice Woodcock Actor: Edwin
Role: Sir William Meadows Actor: Aickin

Afterpiece Title: Nature Will Prevail

Dance: End II: Tambourine Dance- , as17790602; End: As17790531

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Performance Comment: Principal Parts by Palmer, Aickin, Edwin, R. Palmer, Webb, Lamash, Gardner, Baddeley, Blissett, Massey, Egan, Davis, Stevens, Bannister, Mrs Webb, Miss Hale, Miss Farren. [Cast from London Chronicle, 11 July 1778: Tobine-Palmer; Tabby-Aickin; Wingrave-Edwin; Squib-R. Palmer; Bounce-Webb; Robin-Lamash; Cathartic-Gardner; Catchpenny-Baddeley; Dr Truby-Blissett; Juggins-Massey; Waiters-Egan, Davis, Stevens; Ranter-Bannister; Mrs Grogram-Mrs Webb; Peggy-Miss Hale; Nancy-Miss Farren; Original Prologue-Palmer. [This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]This was spoken, as here assigned, at all subsequent performances.]
Cast
Role: Wingrave Actor: Edwin

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Performance Comment: Major Sturgeon-Bannister; Sir Jacob Jollup-Massey; Bruin-Webb; Heeltap-Egan; Lint-Jackson; Roger-Stevens; Snuffle-Peirce; Jerry Sneak-Edwin; Mrs Bruin-Mrs W. Palmer; Mrs Sneak-Mrs Webb.
Cast
Role: Sir Jacob Jollup Actor: Massey
Role: Jerry Sneak Actor: Edwin

Dance: End: The Country Wake, as17790609

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Bensley; Major Oakly-Digges; Charles-Dimond [From the Theatre Royal, Bath]; Lord Trinket-Lamash; Captain O'Cutter-Egan; Tom-Stevens; Paris-Jackson; John-Kenny; Lady Freelove's Servant-Painter; Russet-Aickin; Sir Harry Beagle-Palmer; Lady Freelove-Miss Sherry; Harriot-Miss Harper; Toilet-Miss Hale; Chambermaid-Mrs Poussin; Mrs Oakly-Mrs Montague (1st appearance).
Cast
Role: Sir Harry Beagle Actor: Palmer

Afterpiece Title: The Flitch of Bacon

Cast
Role: Tipple Actor: Edwin

Dance: End: Tambourine Dance, as17790602

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performance Comment: Young Philpot-Palmer; Old Philpot-Parsons; Sir Jasper-Massey; Young Wilding-R. Palmer; Beaufort-Wood; Quildrive-Stevens; Dapper-Jackson; Maria-A Young Gentlewoman (1st appearance on any stage [Mrs Lloyd]).Mrs Lloyd]).
Cast
Role: Sir Jasper Actor: Massey
Related Works
Related Work: The Citizen Turned Gentleman Author(s): Edward Ravenscroft

Dance: As17790531

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Cast
Role: Sir James Juniper Actor: Parsons
Role: Etiquette Actor: Edwin
Role: Sir Dilberry Actor: Painter

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: Lord Minikin-R. Palmer; Sir John Trotley-Blissett; Col. Tivy-Wood; Jessamy-Lamash; Davy-Parsons; Lady Minikin-Mrs Hitchcock; Gymp-Mrs Poussin; Miss Tittup-Mrs Kennedy; Original Prologue-Palmer.
Cast
Role: Sir John Trotley Actor: Blissett