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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.

476
29 December 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Mr C. Shadwell. At Common Prices. Receipts: #39 12s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

477
04 January 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the Request of the Inhabitants of the Town and Corporation of Windsor. Mainpiece: Written by Shakespear. At common Prices. Receipts: #60 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Magician

478
12 June 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As 3 Jan. At Common Prices. [The opening of the Summer Season.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

479
06 July 1722 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit a Persons distressed by Losses in Trade. Written by the late Mr Dryden. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feigned Innocence; Or, Sir Martin Marall

Dance: Mrs Bullock; A new Harlequin-Miss Lindar; Drunken Scene-Harper

480
07 January 1723 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

481
22 January 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Captives

482
29 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: With all the Original Decorations of Rising, Sinking, and Flying. And Dances proper to the Play. At common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lancashire Witches; Or, Teague O'divelly

Music: ll the Witches' Musick-, both Vocal and Instrumental, composed by the late Mr Barret

483
30 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: As it was alter'd from Shakespear by Sir William D'Avenant and Mr Dryden. With all the Songs, Dances, and other Decorations proper to the Play. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest; Or, The Inchanted Island

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea; or, The Country Wedding

484
31 October 1724 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written by the late Mr Otway. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserv'd; Or, A Plot Discover'd

Song: As17241008

485
04 November 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Receipts: #62 14s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: The Magician; or, Harlequin a Director

Song: TThree Children on the Ice-

486
06 January 1728 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: MMist's, 6 Jan.. We hear that in a certain Alley in Wapping during the Holidays the Coronation of Anna Bullenv has been represented by Punch's Company of Actors with very great Applause; and that all that have seen it agree, that they have far excell'd their Brethren of Drury-Lane in the Conduct of that Farce; and, it is the common Opinion, that the wooden Actors have much the best Heads for Theatrical Decorations

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

487
19 August 1730 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of the King of the Cherokees, the Prince, the four Generals, and the young Captain, lately arrived from South Carolina. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Vocal and Instrumental Music-

488
25 June 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices. 7 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Merchant

Music: Select Pieces-

Song: Song-Miss Raftor; accompany'd on the Violin-Charke

489
25 September 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by the late Mr Congreve. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Afterpiece Title: The Jovial Crew; or, The Merry Beggars

Dance:

490
30 September 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Written by Beaumont and Fletcher. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wit Without Money

Afterpiece Title: The What D'ye Call It

491
02 October 1731 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd

492
01 November 1731 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Written by Shakespear. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Performance Comment: Falstaff-W. Giffard; King-Huddy; Prince-Giffard; Worcester-Smith; Hotspur-Rosco; Northumberland-Williams; Vernon-Bardin; Blunt-Havard; Bardolph-Collett; Francis-Morgan; Carriers-Bullock, Beckham; Lady Piercy-Mrs Purden; Hostess-Mrs Palmer.
Cast
Role: Vernon Actor: Bardin

Dance: Eaton, Mrs Tollett, Miss Sandham; particularly a new Comic dance-Eaton, Mrs Tollett

493
11 July 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality and Distinction. At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Dance:

494
19 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Taken from the French of Moliere. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

495
21 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar; Or, The Double Discovery

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song: Miss Raftor

Dance:

496
23 September 1732 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Ballet: With New Habits. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil of a Duke; or, Trapolin's Vagaries

Dance: Grand Ballet: Les Bergeries, Composed in the Taste of Monsieur Dumoulin and Mademoiselle Camargo, of the Opera at Paris-Essex, Miss Robinson, Houghton, being the first Time of their Dancing since their Arrival from Paris; Thurmond, Mrs Walter, Tench, Miss Williams, Davenport, Miss Mears

497
15 November 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Receipts: #26 15s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

498
11 December 1732 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. Stage half a guinea. Receipts: #69 6s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Dance: As17321209

499
29 May 1733 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Penkethman, Morgan, Wetherilt. Being absolutely the last Night of the Company's acting this Season. At Common Prices

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tender Husband

Dance:

500
26 June 1733 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: At Common Prices. 6:30 p.m. The Company will continue to act twice a Week

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fatal Extravagance

Afterpiece Title: Momus Turn'd Fabulist; or, Vulcan's Wedding

Dance: TTwo Pierrots-Vallois, Pelling

Ballet: AAmorous Clowns or the Courtezan. Clowns-Pelling, Delagarde; Their Wives-Mrs Ogden, Miss Baston; Courtezan-Mrs Pelling