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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Town and Borough of Southwark"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Town and Borough of Southwark")') 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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753 results for: Keyword - Town and Borough of Southwark
We found 472 matches on Event Comments, 169 matches on Performance Comments, 135 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

226
07 September 1749 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: [At Lee, Yeates and Warner's Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark Fair. [Time, entertainments, prices and description as 23 Aug., bf.] The Proprietors have been at a great Expense in having their Booth repair'd and surveyed, in order to accommodate the Gentry and others in an agreeable Manner, and to prevent any Accident that might happen through the Carelessness of the Workmen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of Whittington

227
16 September 1749 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

228
25 September 1749 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth. Bowling Green, Southwark. Benefit Mrs Yeates. By Particular Desire

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

229
02 October 1749 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

Song:

230
04 October 1749 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Southwark. Care will be taken to have the Performance conducted with the greatest decorum (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stratagem

Entertainment:

231
09 October 1749 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. By Desire. A burlesque Tragedy. The whole to be dressed after the Quaerumanian manner (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tunbridge Walks

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

232
25 January 1750 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green, Southwark. Benefit for Mrs Phillips, who plays the Distrest Mother. With the Original Epilogue. Box seats 2s. (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distrest Mother

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmasked

233
05 March 1750 @ Southwark

Event Comment: At the New Theatre, Bowling Green, Southwark. Benefit for the Widow of Laguerre, late of Covent Garden. Boxes 2s. 6d. (Daily Advertiser)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: Lying Valet

234
22 March 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. Last time of performing the Mainpiece this season. A Gent: play'd Puff in the farce--Bug (Cross). [Seems to have been a clear benefit, as Treasurer's Book lists no charges.] Cash #65 8s. 6d., plus tickets #95; Paid Reynolds for wax & [brickdust] 3s. 9d. Paid Mr Pope a Bill #7 14s. [wigmaker] (Treasurer's Book). Tickets of Sowdon at his lodgings, the Sign of the Sun, a Milliner's facing Exeter exchange in the strand, and of Hobson at the stage door. Tickets otherwise to be had at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill, and of Mr Thomas Sowdon in Blackman St., Southwark. We hear William Mills, Comedian, lies at the point of death, at his lodgings in Russell St., Covent Garden. Receipts: #170 (Cross); #160 3s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Afterpiece Title: Miss in Her Teens

Dance: CComic Dance, as17500221; Venetian Gardeners-Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti

235
07 May 1750 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the prisoners confined in the Marshalsea Prison, Southwark. Being their first application of this kind. Tickets to be had at The Marshalsea Prison, and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #170 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provok'd Wife

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

Dance: Grandchamps, Mlle Auretti, Mathews

236
07 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Phillips's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark Fair. An Extraordinary Band of Musick. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin at 12 noon. [Repeated in all bills. Play not identified. Some characters resemble those of the Lottery.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple; Or, The Fo Bit

Afterpiece Title: The Imprisonment of Harlequin; or, 'Squire in the Suds

Song: Phillips, Miss Agnetta

Dance: Phillips, Miss Agnetta

237
07 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Great Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Interspers'd with the Comical Humours of the Nurse to the Princess Miriam, and her foolish son Zekel, as likewise the Humourous Scene between Captain Bluster, his Man Didymo, and the Witches. [Jeptha-Morrel, instead of Jeptha-$Carr, according to the Daily Advertiser.] To begin each day at Twelve o'clock, during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow; Or, The Virgin Sacrific'd

Music: The Original Musick- as performed by Mrs Lee, with universal applause, about 15 years since

238
08 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow

239
08 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bence's Great Theatrical Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. Boxes 2s. 6d. Pit 1s. 6d. Gallery 1s. Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each Day at 12 o'clock. [Mainpiece: An Excellent Dramatick Piece. Afterpiece: A diverting Farce.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ove And Empire; Or, Virtue Triumphant

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Beaux; or, The Lovers Quarrel

Song:

240
10 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Booth, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow

241
10 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Bence's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ove And Empire

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Beaux

242
11 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Booth, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow

243
12 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates and Warner's Booth, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jeptha's Rash Vow

244
14 September 1750 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Yeates's Til'd Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. To begin at seven o'clock. Prices: 2s., 1s. 6d., 1s., 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Unhappy Favourite

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Song:

245
14 March 1751 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sowdon. Ladies send servant by three. Tickets at Will's Coffee House in Cornhill; at Mr Thomas Sowdon's in Blackman St., Southwark, and of Hobson at the stage door. Receipts: #230 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: Lethe

Dance: Devisse, Mad Auretti

246
07 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark, A Diverting Droll, By a Company of Comedians. To begin each day at 12 and end at 10 at Night during the time of the Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv; Or, The Lives Of Robin Hood And Little John, With The Comical Humours Of The Pindar Of Wakefield

Entertainment: EEquilibres on a small wire-Cooke

247
09 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark Fair

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv

248
09 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At Mr Phillips's Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark. A concert, etc. An Extraordinary Band of Musick. Pit 1s, 6d., Gallery 1s., Upper Gallery 6d. To begin each day at 12 o'clock noon. Mainpiece: An excellent Droll. [Possibly made from Dryden's Spanish Fryar.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: No Fool Like The Old One; Or, The Lucky Discovery

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Statue, with Escape into Quart Bottle

Song: Phillips, Master Phillips, Miss Featherstone

Dance: Phillips, Master Phillips, Miss Featherstone

249
10 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv

250
11 September 1751 @ Southwark Fair

Event Comment: At the Great Tiled Booth, Bowling Green, Southwark

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Edward Iv