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We found 1743 matches on Performance Comments, 833 matches on Event Comments, 30 matches on Performance Title, 5 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Shylock-Ryder (1st appearance on this stage); Anthonio-Aickin; Gratiano-R. Palmer; Old Gobbo-Barrett; Tubal-Chapman; Lorenzo (with songs)-Davies; Launcelot-Moss; Duke-Usher; Solanio-Evatt; Solarino-Iliff; Bassanio-Bensley; Jessica (with a song)-Mrs Taylor; Nerissa-Miss Fontenelle; Portia (1st time)-Miss Ryder (2nd appearance on any stage).

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: End IV: As17900619

Event Comment: Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, author unknown; based on La Precaution Inutile, by Nolant deFatouville]. Public Advertiser, 13 July 1790: This Day is published Try Again (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggars Opera

Performance Comment: Captain Macheath-Waterhouse (from the Theatre Royal Crow Street, Dublin; 1st appearance on this stage); Lockit-Cubitt; Filch-R. Palmer; Mat o' th' Mint-Chapman; Ben Budge-Abbott; Peachum-Moss; Lucy-Mrs Edwards; Mrs Peachum-Mrs Webb; Diana Trapes-Mrs Powell; Polly-Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: Try Again

Dance: III: Hornpipe (in Character)-Byrn

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Afterpiece Title: Try Again

Dance: End 2nd piece: The Generous Sportsman, as17900625

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Performance Comment: Count Almaviva-Williamson; Doctor Bartholo-Moss; Basil-Aickin; Tallboy-R. Palmer; Argus-Barrett; Notary-Burton; Alcade-Chapman; Lazarillo-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character on this stage); Rosina-Mrs Bannister.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Dance: End: The Generous Sportsman, as17900625

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

Afterpiece Title: Piety in Pattens

Afterpiece Title: The Manager in Distress

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: The Battle of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ways And Means

Afterpiece Title: The Farm House

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 11 years [acted 5 Aug. 1780. This was Edwin's last appearance on the stage.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hexham

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Quarter Of An Hour Before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Thimbles Flight from the Shopboard

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performance Comment: Young Wilding-Palmer (1st appearance on this stage these 2 years); Sir James Elliot-R. Palmer; Papillon-Burton; Old Wilding-Aickin; Miss Godfrey-Miss Heard; Kitty-Miss Hale; Miss Grantham-Mrs Brooks.

Afterpiece Title: A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner

Afterpiece Title: Miss in her Teens

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 1st piece: Never [previously] acted here. 2nd piece [1st time; INT i, by Henry Siddons. Prologue by John Taylor (see text)]. Gazetteer, 28 Aug. 1790: This Day is published Modern Breakfast (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Performance Comment: Marquis D'Almanza-Williamson; Duke Murcia-Ryder; Count Valentia-R. Palmer; Seville-Chapman; Granada-Evatt; Peasant-Bensley; Marchioness-Mrs Brooks; Amanthis-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Amanthis Actor: Mrs Kemble.

Afterpiece Title: Modern Breakfast or All Asleep at Noon

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Dance: End 2nd piece: A Double Hornpipe-Platt, Mrs Goodwin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: New Spain

Afterpiece Title: Katherine and Petruchio

Dance: As17900723

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Ill Tell You What

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Entertainment: Monologue. End: Liberty, as17900813

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Summer Amusement Or An Adventure At Margate

Afterpiece Title: Katherine and Petruchio

Song: In course of Evening: Sigh no more Ladies, Mistress Mine (both composed by Stevens)-Davies, Bannister, Waterhouse, Mrs Iliff, Mrs Bannister

Entertainment: Monologue. As17900816

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Entertainment: Monologue. As17900816

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Spoild Child

Song: In II: song-Mrs Crouch. [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.

Performance Comment: [This was sung, as here assigned, in all subsequent performances.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fifth Or The Conquest Of France

Afterpiece Title: The Romp

Event Comment: Benefit for Palmer. Mr Palmer most respectfully informs the Publick, the Lord Chamberlain having given Permission, Mr Colman having liberally granted the use of the Theatre, and his Brethren kindly consented to perform, that [there] will be presented...[as above. This benefit had originally been arranged for 20 Sept., but because of the death of the Duke of Cumberland, the theatre on that night was dark.] Tickets to be had of Palmer, No. 3, London Road, St. George's Fields; and of Rice, at the Theatre, where Places for the Boxes may be taken

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Entertainment: Monologues. End: The Lecture upon Heads-Palmer; After which: Liberty; or, Two Sides of the Water-Bannister Jun

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In Many Masks

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Woud And She Woud Not Or The Kind Impostor

Afterpiece Title: Polly Honeycombe