Event Comment: [Extra night] Benefit for Bonnor. Afterpiece [1st time; INT 1]: Translated [by Charles Bonnor] from a new Production of Dorvigny, entitled La Fete de Campagne; ou, L'Intendant Comedien malgre Lui, now acting in Paris with uncommon Applause [MS: Larpent 664; not published; in later season occasionally acted under the title of Transformation]. Tickets to be had of Bonnor, No. 19, Piazza, Covent Garden. Bonnor begs leave to inform his Friends and the Public that on account of his Absence at the time his Night was to have been appointed he was induced to decline a Benefit in the course of the Season, but the Manager having obligingly made him an Offer of the Theatre, free of all Expense, and the several Performers kindly engaging to assist him, he has fixed on this Day. Receipts: none listed

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. [Mainpiece in place of The Merchant of Venice; afterpiece of Love a-la-Mode, both announced on playbill of 2 Nov. In afterpiece the playbill assigns Young Wilding to Bonnor, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Palmer.]

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. Part of the Pit will be laid into the Boxes. To prevent confusion Ladies are desired to send their Servants by half past Four o'clock. Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [acted 15 May 1782]. Afterpiece: Not acted these 5 years [not acted since 25 Mar. 1775]. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Banquo to Bensley, but "Poor Bensley's illness last night took him off; but on another night he will give and take in the triumph" {Public Advertiser, 4 Feb.). In afterpiece he is assigned to The Guardian. On the Kemble playbill in both cases his name is deleted and MS annotations substitute Hull's.] "Macbeth at Drury-lane will. . . gag the drivellers who, on the failure of Constance [in King John], ventured a sweeping prophecy of condemnation that 'the Siddons never could play Shakespeare.' Would it not have been better to have borrowed Farren, rather than Hull, for Banquo?" (Public Advertiser, 4 Feb.). "'Why,'say some of the critics, 'should Mrs Siddons wear a white dress in her last scene of Lady Macbeth? She is supposed to be asleep, not mad.' What reason except custom can be given for a mad heroine appearing in white we know not [and see DL, 20 Dec. 1782]. Yet there is an obvious reason why a person walking in their sleep should wear a white dress of the loose kind worn by Mrs Siddons ... It [is] the nearest resemblance which theatrical effect will admit, to the common sort of night-dresses" (Public Advertiser, 7 Feb.). Receipts: #346 16s. (198/10/0; 7/2/6; 0/8/6; tickets: 140/15/0) (charge: free)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Clarke as Antonio, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Hull.]

Event Comment: Benefit for Bensley. Public Advertiser, 2 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Bensley, No. 32, Gerrard-street, Soho. [In mainpiece the playbill retains Packer as Belmour, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Hull.] Receipts: #296 5s. 6d. (165/3/0; 17/7/6; 0/10/0; tickets: 113/5/0) (charge: #106)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Aickin as Duke Senior but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Staunton.] Receipts: #233 14s. (214/0/0; 18/19/6; 0/14/6)

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill assigns Frederick to Murray, but on the playbill in the New York Public Library Theatre Collection his name is deleted and a MS annotation substitutes Francis's.] Boxes 3s. Pit 2s. Gallery 1s. To begin precisely at 7:00. The Public are respectfully informed that the Company will perform here but four or five Weeks longer, being engaged elsewhere. The Theatre is not only very commodious, but also remarkably cool. The Days of performing will be regularly Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Event Comment: Benefit for Bannister Jun. Public Advertiser, 22 July: Tickets to be had of Bannister Jun., No. 29, Bow Street, Covent Garden. 1st piece: In 3 acts, altered from Shakespeare [by Frederick Pilon. Prologue by the alterer (European Magazine, Aug. 1785, p. 150)]. 2nd piece: Acted but once [on 27 Aug. 1783]; with Alterations

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Duenna, announced on playbill of 7 Dec. In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Morton, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Mrs Inchbald. And see 10 Dec.] Receipts: #85 6s. 6d. (82/16/6; 2/10/0)

Event Comment: [In afterpiece the playbill retains Cubitt as Noodle, but on the Kemble playbill a MS annotation substitutes Brett.] Receipts: #134 2s. 6d. (124/17/0; 9/5/6)