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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Society of Non Common Pleas"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Society of Non Common Pleas")') 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

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602 results for: Keyword - Society of Non-Common Pleas
We found 462 matches on Event Comments, 104 matches on Performance Comments, 45 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

451
17 August 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: For the Entertainment of Esquire Bickerstaff, who will honour Mr Penkethman with his Presence. These Performances will be done between the 1st and 4th Act, by reason Esquire Bickerstaff is oblig'd to be gone when the 3d Act is over. Altho' Mr Penkethman is at an Extraordinary Charge for these Entertainments, besides the Play, yet to oblige his Friends he lets 'em in at Common Prices [as 7 Aug.]. Note, No Subscribers Tickets will pass this Day

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fond Husband

Entertainment: 1st: turns upon one Foot 300 times-A Young Gentlewoman, who never appear'd on a publick Stage, and as she is turning fixes 12 Swords points about her, 2 to her Eyes, 2 to her Eye-lashes, 2 to her Eye-brows, 2 to her Nose, 2 to her Lips, and 2 to her Breasts

Dance: French Peasant-; Scaramouch-; Wooden Shoe-; Dance by Harlequin Scaramouch Cooper and his Wife-; Ladder Dance-

452
07 September 1710 @ Greenwich

Event Comment: At the desire of several Perons of Quality will be perform'd that great and celebrated Scene in Julius Caesar at the table between Brutus and Cassius , Written by the Immortal Shakespeare. And altho' Mr Penkethman is at an extraordinary Charge in providing these Entertainments, to oblige his Friends he lets them in at Common Prices [as 7 Aug.]. Note, The Subscribers' Tickets have free Admittance

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar (one Scene)

Afterpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Entertainment: Rope/Dancing after the French, Italian, and Bohemian Manner-; also a Stiff Rope, Vaulting the Slack Rope beyond Imagination-little Girl of 4 Years of Age

453
23 January 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Dorinda

Music: With Symphonies-famous Signor Veracini , lately arriv'd from Italy

454
29 January 1714 @ Queen's Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Croesus

Music: As17140123

455
15 February 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit the Author. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

456
26 October 1714 @ King's Theatre

Event Comment: Boxes 8s. Pit 5s. Gallery 2s. 6d. Stage Boxes half a Guinea. At 5:30 p.m. Notices as 23 Oct. It having been the Common Practice of several Persons to come into the Opera and stay a whole Act, and sometimes longer, without paying, to the great Prejudice of the Opera, therefore it is humbly desired for the future, that no Person will take it ill that tney are not admitted without Tickets. [The King present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Arminius

457
30 December 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With New Scenes, Machines, Dances, and all other Decorations, proper to the Play. At Common Prices. [Prince and Princess present.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Emperour Of The Moon

458
20 January 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 25 Nov. 1714. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

459
02 February 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 25 Nov. 1714. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

460
12 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 25 Nov. 1714. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

461
29 July 1715 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Written by Sir Robert Howard. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Indian Queen

Music: As17150719

462
31 August 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Tim. Buck, to release him out of Prison. At Common Prices. Receipts: #100 13s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Devil Of A Wife; Or, A Comical Transformation

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Sack

Dance: As17150823

463
07 August 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Gentlemen and Ladies. With all the proper Decorations of Scenes, Machines, and Dances. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Music: All the Musick by Mr Weldon and perform'd Compleat, as at the Revival of the Play-

464
23 August 1716 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With all the proper Decorations of Scenes, Machines, and Dance. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Music: As17160807

465
12 February 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Song: As17170204

466
10 June 1717 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With all the Scenes, Machines, Songs, Dances, and all the other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

467
17 March 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. At common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice

468
06 August 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Leigh and Spiller. At Common Prices. This is the last Time of the Company's Acting this Season

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks; Or, The Yeoman Of Kent

Afterpiece Title: Hob

Song: Oh! London Is A Fine Town-

Dance: Moreau, Cook, Pelling, Newhouse, Mrs Moreau, Miss Smith, Miss Schoolding

469
13 December 1718 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. In which is contain'd, The Storming of the City Corioli, the Overthrow of the Volscians, the Triumph of Coriolanus , His Banishment by the Common Wealth, His Return against Rome, and his Death by the Treachery of Tullus Ausidious . With Scenes, Machines, Truimphal Arches, and other Decorations after the Custom of the Romans

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

470
02 June 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. N.B. Part of the Company will continue to Act two Days in a Week during the Summer Session. Original Weekly Journal, 6 June: A Quarrel happening in Drury-Lane Play-House, betwixt a Gentleman and an Officer, they immediately drew their Swords, and the Latter was wounded in the Arm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John; Or, The Libertine Destroy'd

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

471
11 July 1719 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: It seems a very scandalous Interlude, or Play, has been prepar'd for Action at...Lincoln's Inn Fields notwithstanding the Discouragement that was given but a little while since to one of the same Kind; but a proper Authority has put a Stop to such Outrages against Common Decency and Manners.-Weekly Packet, 4-11 July

Performances

472
21 July 1719 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Dance: Thurmond Jr, Topham, Birkhead

473
20 April 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

474
24 June 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, Songs, and Dances proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

475
26 December 1720 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With Scenes, Machines, Songs, and Dances, proper to the Play. At common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or The Inchanted Island