Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Bulkley. Mainpiece: A New Comedy [by a Lady] never perform'd in this Kingdom. As performed with Universal Applause at the
Theatre Royal in Dublin. [The Edition of 1774 lists the
Irish Actors. The characters are:
Mowbray,
Sir Thomas O'Shaughnesy;
Admiral Swivel;
Leslie;
Egerton;
Capt. Egerton;
Issacher;
Donald M'Pherson;
Strap;
Elfrida Audley;
Henrietta Egerton;
Mrs Ornel;
Mrs Issacher;
Jenny, a
Mantua Maker, a
Maid;
French servants and
porters.
Genest suggests a casting for ten of the characters.] Charges: #66 6s. 6d. Profit to
Mrs Bulkley #33 17s., plus #93 13s. from tickets Box 232; Pit 177; Gallery 91). Paid
Mrs Carne half year' salary due
Lady day last #15. Paid half year's water rent due
Xmas last #4. Receipts: #100 3s. 6d. (Account Book)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: The South Briton
Cast
Role: Principal Characters Actor: Shuter, Lewis, Wroughton, Hull, Dunstall, Fox, Kniveton, Quick, Lewes, Miss Barsanti, Miss Dayes, Mrs P. Green, Mrs Helme, Mrs Bulkley.Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice
Dance: IV: A Double Hornpipe-Mas. Blurton, Miss Besford; End I Farce: A Minuet-Aldridge, Mrs Bulkley
Monologue: Interlude.End: True Blue. As 26 March