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7799 results for: Keyword - Weston</i>, has some Requisites, may in Time be a tolerable Actor in low Comedy--<span class=
We found 4810 matches on Event Comments, 3422 matches on Performance Comments, 607 matches on Performance Title, 1 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

7376
26 March 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Pope. Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 12 Mar. 1771]. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Andrew Franklin]. Morning Chronicle, 5 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Pope at her house, Half-Moon-street, Piccadilly. Receipts: #272 14s. (151.14; 5.3; tickets: 115.17) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Medea

Afterpiece Title: The Mermaid

Performance Comment: [Principal Characters by Wilson, Fawcett, Marshall, Macready, Powel, Cross, Rees, Munden, Mrs Webb, Mrs Harlowe, Mrs Mountain. Cast from text (Dublin: P. Wogan [et al], 1792): Sir Gregory Gander-Wilson; Lord Crop-Fawcett; Raymond (disguised as Bowsprit)-Marshall; Feignwell-Macready; Proteus-Munden; Lady Gander-Mrs Webb; Susan-Mrs Harlowe; Belinda-Mrs Mountain [in text: Miss Chapman]; Powel, Cross, Rees.in text: Miss Chapman]; Powel, Cross, Rees.
Cast
Role: Susan Actor: Mrs Harlowe

7377
10 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Quick. 1st piece: Written by Mrs Inchbald. 2nd piece: For that night only. 3rd piece: Written by Foote; 1st time at that Theatre. Morning Herald, 28 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Quick, No. 98, High Holborn. Receipts: #325 4s. 6d. (152.3.0; 5.10.6; tickets: 167.11.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Such Things Are

Performance Comment: Twineall-Lewis; Sir Luke Tremor-Quick; Elvirus-Holman; Haswell-Harley; Sultan-Farren; Lord Flint-Davies; Meanright-Macready; Zadan-Powel; 1st Keeper-Cubitt; Prisoner-Thompson; Lady Tremor-Mrs Mattocks; Aurelia-Mrs Mountain; Female Prisoner-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Haswell Actor: Harley

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkins Ramble to Town

Afterpiece Title: The Cozeners

Performance Comment: Aircastle-Munden; Toby-Fawcett; O'Flannagan-Rock; Col. Gorget-Macready; Flaw-Thompson; Tom-Marshall; Doctor Hellebore-Powel; Paul Prig-Quick; Mrs Fleece'm-Mrs Webb; Mrs Aircastle-Mrs Platt; Lilley-Mrs Harlowe; Betsey Blossom-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Lilley Actor: Mrs Harlowe

Dance: End 1st piece: A Divertisement-Byrne, Ratchford, Mrs Ratchford, Mlle St.Amand

7378
16 April 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Jordan. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Simon, based partly on La Bonne Mere, by Jean Pierre Claris deFlorian; incidental music by Johann Gottlieb Nicolai. Larpent MS 940; not published]: To conclude with a Rural Breakfast [a representation of that given by the Countess of Buckinghamshire for the Prince of Wales at her villa near London (Genest, VII, 53)], and a Dance by the Characters. Morning Herald, 31 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Jordan, No. 14, Somerset-street, Portman-square. Receipts: #548 9s. 6d. (216.8.6; 30.2.0; 5.9.0; tickets: 296.10.0) (charge: #153 5s. 10d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Village Coquette

7379
17 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; MD 2, by Jeremiah Meyer and William Hayley, "from the German." Larpent MS 941; not published; synopsis of plot in Morning Herald, 18 Apr.]: With new Scenery, Machinery, Dresses and Decorations. The Music selected from Ditteus [i.e. Dittersdorf], Rauzzini and Salieri; the Overture and new Music by Reeve. Book of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. [Mme Carnevale had 1st appeared at king's in 1783.] Receipts: #252 3s. 6d. (242.19.6; 9.4.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Road To Ruin

Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Harlowe

Afterpiece Title: Zelma or The Will o th Wisp

7380
18 April 1792 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. [1st piece: Epilogue by Miles Peter Andrews.] 3rd piece [1st time; F 2, by Eliza Parsons, based on Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, by Moliere]. Morning Herald, 27 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russel-street, Covent Garden. Receipts: #269 11s. 6d. (174.14.0; 4.16.6; tickets: 90.1.0) (charge: #105)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Soldiers Festival or The Night before the Battle

Afterpiece Title: The Intrigues of a Morning or An Hour in Paris

Afterpiece Title: The Wives Revenged

7381
05 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: The Last time of Mrs Siddons's Performance this Season. Receipts: #363 13s. 6d. (316.11.6; 44.1.0; 3.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

7382
30 May 1792 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave

Performance Comment: Oroonoko-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Governor-Davies; Blandford-Macready; Capt. Driver-Cubitt; Stanmore-Evatt; Jack Stanmore-Bloomfield; Hotman-Thompson; Daniel-Quick; Aboan-Aickin; Charlotte Weldon (1st time)-Mrs Harlowe; Lucy-Mrs Davis; Widow Lackit-Mrs Webb; Imoinda-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Weldon Actor: Mrs Harlowe

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London

Cast
Role: Iris Actor: Mrs Harlowe

Dance: II: a Negro Dance-

Song: In afterpiece: As17920421; End: The Group of Lovers; or, Beauty at her Levee-Munden

Entertainment: Monologue End IV: Jeu D'Esprit, as17920516; Little Pig lays without any Straw-Fawcett

7383
15 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 1st piece [1st time; PREL 1, by George Colman, ynger. Larpent MS 951; synopsis of plot in Diary, 16 June. This piece is stated to have been published in 1792]. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. 2nd Gallery 1s. Places for the Boxes to be had of Rice, at the Theatre. The Doors to be opened at 6:00. To begin at 7:00 [same throughout season]. In 1st piece "Parsons was highly entertaining in affecting to speak in an under tone scarcely audible, that the feebleness of his voice might correspond with the smallness of the House, compared with the enormous [new] Theatre over the way; and his broken, unintelligible mode of announcing the Performance to the Audience as a specimen, was truly whimsical" (Morning Herald, 16 June)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay market Or Two Sides Of The Gutter

Afterpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

7384
16 June 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Portal, Shade, Hicks, J. Shade, Gibson, Rice. Kemble Mem.: Bt. the box-keepers. The Last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Receipts: #87 2s. 1d. (53.2.0; 28.15;28.15.1; 5.6.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #148 1s. 3d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

7385
20 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay market

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Performance Comment: Blister (1st time)-Edwin; Quaver-Davies; Goodwill-Johnson; Thomas-Evatt; Coupee-Bannister Jun.; Lucy-Mrs Edwin? Jun. (1st appearance on this stage).

7386
23 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece: The Characters will be dressed in the Habits of the Times. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. "The Eustache de St. Pierre of Bensley was his Chef d'oeuvre: it suited the sourness of his aspect, his nasal intonation, and the general bluntness of his manner" (Monthly Mirror, 1796, p. 185)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: The Surrender of Calais

7387
30 June 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Elizabeth Inchbald, based on Le Mechant, by Jean Baptiste Louis Gresset. Larpent MS 952; not published; synopsis of plot in Universal Magazine, July 1792, p. 61]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: Young Men and Old Women

7388
03 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: Inkle-Johnstone; Sir Christopher Curry-Wilson; Medium-Baddeley; Campley-Davies; Trudge-Bannister Jun.; Mate-Johnson; Planters-Usher, Evatt, Burton; Sailors-Ledger, Abbott; Yarico-Mrs Kemble (1st appearance this season); Narcissa-Mrs Bannister; Wowski-Mrs Bland; Patty (1st time)-Miss Fontenelle.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

7389
04 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Performance Comment: Major Cyprus-Palmer; Anthony Euston-Bensley; Colonel Downright-Aickin; Charles Euston-A Young Gentleman (1st appearance [Uncle]); Sir George Euston-Williamson; Sir Harry Harmless-R. Palmer; Mr Euston-Parsons; Lady Euston-Mrs Brooks; Lady Harriet-Mrs Whitfield; Bloom (1st time)-Miss Fontenelle; Mrs Euston-Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: Young Men and Old Women

7390
07 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 3rd piece [1st time; INT 1, by Walley Chamberlain Oulton]. Morning Herald, 21 July 1792: This Day is published All in Good Humour (1s)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Poor Old Hay market

Afterpiece Title: The Suicide

Afterpiece Title: All in Good Humour

7391
14 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Performance Comment: Rory-Wilson; Captain Gorget-Bannister; Tipperary-R. Palmer; Crack-Abbott; Landlord-Ledger; Anvil-Barrett; Sexton-Burton; Laird Kilcubrie's Servant-Farley; Hoof-Lyons; Maria-Mrs Bannister; Signora Figurante (1st time)-Mrs Bland; Miss Plumb-Miss Fontenelle; Lady Pedigree-Mrs Edwin.

7392
16 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Performance Comment: Sir George Splendorville-Williamson; Manly (1st time)-Davies; Blackman-Baddeley; Lucre-R. Palmer; Lord Hazard-Evatt; Wilford-Aickin; Henry-Palmer Jun.; Bluntley-Bannister Jun.; Servants-Ledger, Abbott; Shopman-Johnson; Lady Caroline Seymour-Mrs Brooks; Lady Bridget Squander-Miss Heard; Mrs Evans-Mrs Taylor; Eleanor-Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: All in Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

7393
24 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17920619 but Kate (1st time)-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Bland

7394
25 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: 2nd piece [1st time; M 3, by--Francis. Perhaps the same as a piece performed under this title at Bath, 20 Nov. 1785]: With new Musick, Scenes, Dresses and Decorations. The new Musick and Overture by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Dance: In 2nd piece: the Dances (under direction of D'Egville,)-Whitmell, Keys, George D'Egville, Lewis D'Egville, Master Whitmell, Master Chatterley, Master Menage, Master Webb, Mrs Haskey, Miss DeCamp, Miss E. Menage, Miss F?. D'Egville, Miss Jacobs, Miss Haskey, Miss Standen, Miss Menage

Performance Comment: Menage, Miss F?. D'Egville, Miss Jacobs, Miss Haskey, Miss Standen, Miss Menage.

7395
31 July 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As17920703 but Mate-Cubitt; Planters-_Burton, Johnson; Patty (1st time)-Mrs Taylor.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Cast
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Bland

7396
01 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Enchanted Wood

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Performance Comment: As17920615 but Arionelli (1st time)-Bland.

Dance: As17920725

7397
14 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill retains Mrs Bland as Madelon, but "Mrs Bland has just presented her husband with two fair daughters...In consequence Miss DeCamp, last night, assumed the part of Madelon" (Morning Herald, 15 Aug.).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performance Comment: As17920619 but Mrs Scout (1st time)-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Bland

7398
18 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Seeing Is Believing

Afterpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Performance Comment: As17920716 but Lady Caroline Seymour (1st time)-Mrs Whitfield.

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Cast
Role: Duke of Somerset Actor: Bland

7399
23 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; C 5, ascribed variously to Elizabeth Inchbald and to Miss Griffiths, based on L'Amour Use, by Philippe Nericault, dit Destouches. Prologue and Epilogue by George Colman, ynger (see text)]. Morning Herald, 4 Sept. 1792: This Day is published Cross Partners (1s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In Good Humour

Afterpiece Title: Cross Partners

7400
31 August 1792 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; C 3, author unknown. Not in Larpent MS; not published]: Taken from Amphitryon, as altered by Garrick from Plautus and Moliere [recte from John Hawkesworth's alteration of Amphitryon, by John Dryden]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: The Two Socias