Toggle Sphinx Query
SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Sir John"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Sir John")') 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

Result Options

Download:
JSON XML CSV

Search Filters

Event

Date Range
Start
End

Performance

?
Filter by Performance Type










Cast

?
+
+

Keyword

?
New Search
18326 results for: Keyword - Sir John
We found 11245 matches on Author, 6630 matches on Performance Comments, 2610 matches on Roles/Actors, 1685 matches on Event Comments, and 676 matches on Performance Title.

2076
28 December 1744 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Shipwrecked

Dance: IV: Grand Dance, as17441217

2077
08 January 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Richard Iii

Related Works
Related Work: The English Princess; or, The Death of Richard III Author(s): John Caryll

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): Sir William DavenantJohn Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

2078
01 February 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

2079
05 February 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: Rosamond

Song: II: Lowe

Dance: IV: Grand Dance, as17441217

2080
14 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Mrs Clive. Mainpiece: At the Desire of Several Ladies of Quality. Never acted there before. [Amphitheatre on stage as described 11 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lady's Last Stake; Or, The Wife's Resentment

Performance Comment: Miss Notable-Mrs Clive; Lord Wronglove-Hale; Sir Friendly Moral-Cashell; Lord George Brilliant-Cibber; Lady Wronglove-Mrs Horton; Lady Gentle-Mrs Vincent; Mrs Hartshorn-Miss Hippisley; Mrs Conquest-Mrs Pritchard.
Cast
Role: Sir Friendly Moral Actor: Cashell

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Song: II: Wanton Breezes, from the Oratorio Love and Friendship-Miss Edwards; IV: (by particular desire) the Irish Song Ellen a Roon-Mrs Clive; V: The Favourite Duette Let Caesar and Urania Live (compos'd by the late Henry Purcell)-Mrs Clive, Miss Edwards

Dance: III: Cooke, Sga Campioni

2081
18 March 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Ryan. Mainpiece: At the partiuclar desire of several Ladies of Quality

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don Sebastian

Related Works
Related Work: Don Sebastian Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: Don Sebastian, King of Portual Author(s): John Dryden
Related Work: The Captive Author(s): John Dryden

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Song: I: (by particular Desire) The Charms of Polly Willis-Mrs Clive; IV: Beard

Dance: III: Cooke, Sga Campioni; V: LaLauze, Sga Campioni

2082
18 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Dance: I: Serious Dance-Sga Campioni; III: Comic Dance call'd L'Allemande-Picq, Sga Campioni; V: Ball Dance call'd the Louvre-; concluding with: a Minuet-Picq, Sga Campioni

2083
22 April 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Bridges, Blakes and Cross, prompter. Afterpiece: By Desire. Mr Garrick's Indisposition continuing, we have, at the particular desire of several ladies, chang'd our play. Tickets deliver'd out for the Stratagem will be taken. [On this Day appeared the Daily Advertiser a full column presentment by the Court of Westminster to the Justices of the Peace against unlicensed players]: This court being inform'd that common Players of Interludes have for several years...assembled...in Mayfair to erect Booths and exhibit Drolls and Shews...whereby numbers of His Majesty's subjects have been encouraged to assemble and commit riots and other Misdemeanours in Breach of His Majesty's Peace, and to the disturbance of the Neighborhood, and that some of the players are and now contracting for ground in order to erect Sheds, Booths and other places...for shewing and acting plays...&c, &c, &c...for the more effectual suppressing of the evils aforesaid, it is hereby recommended unto his Majesty's Justices of the Peace to meet together at such time as they shall appoint in order to proceed according to the law against all such offenders as shall be brought before them by the peace officers, who are required to be aiding the Justice of the Peace. [The gist of the Presentment lies in the statement]: that they [the Justices] shall apprehend all and every other person and Persons who in any other place or places within the said City and Liberty shall act or represent for gain, any Tragedy, Comedy, Opera, Play, Interlude, Farce, or any other Entertainment for the stage

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Bevil Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: Tragedy of Tragedies

Dance: I: Sga Bettini; III: Muilment

Song: II: Lowe; V: Nanny O (By Desire)-Lowe

2084
30 April 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Bridgwater

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: IV: Comic Dance, as17450423

2085
14 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved; Or, A Plot Discovered

Related Works
Related Work: Venice Preserv'd Author(s): John Philip Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Beard
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Song: V: The New Occasional Song by Lampe-Beard [see17451011]

Dance: Cooke

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): Sir William DavenantJohn Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

2086
21 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Johnson

Song: GGenius of England-Beard; New Occasional Song and Chorus-Beard [see17451014]

2087
23 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Johnson

Song: As17451014

Dance: Cooke

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): Sir William DavenantJohn Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

2088
24 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Woodvil Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

2089
25 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Johnson

Song: As17451014

Dance: Cooke

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): Sir William DavenantJohn Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher

2090
26 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Woodvil Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: V: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

2091
28 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Woodvil Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: V: M and Mlle Mechel

2092
28 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece: By Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: Pyramus and Thisbe

2093
29 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Woodvil Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Song: I: Lowe; IV: Lowe

Dance: III and V: M and Mlle Mechel

2094
29 October 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Massacre At Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Blogg.
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Song: As17451028

Dance: As17451028

2095
30 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Woodvil Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Song: V: Lowe

2096
30 October 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Royal Chace

2097
30 October 1745 @ Goodman's Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Massacre At Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Blogg.
Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): John Mottley

Song: As17451028

Dance: As17451028

2098
31 October 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Woodvil Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Dance: III: Grand Comic Dance, as17450926

Song: V: Britons never will be Slaves-Lowe, Mrs Arne

2099
06 November 1745 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Cast
Role: Sir John Beville Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The Debauchees

Song: V: The Subscription-Lowe

2100
06 November 1745 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Nonjuror

Cast
Role: Sir John Actor: Johnson

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Dance: Cooke

Related Works
Related Work: Tu Quoque; or, The City Gallant Author(s): Sir William DavenantJohn Cooke
Related Work: Tu Quoque Author(s): John Cooke
Related Work: The Capricious Lady Author(s): John Fletcher