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Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Whos the Dupe

Event Comment: ["In the enchanted Island We were presented with a view of an elegant modern built house -so much for propriety!" (Thespian Magazine, Feb. 1793, p. 194.] Receipts: #229 2s. (190.10; 35.1; 3.11)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: In afterpiece: Dances, as17921227

Song: Vocal Parts, as17921213, but Sedgwick, Mrs +Crouch

Opera: Masque of Neptune and Amphitrite. As17921213, but Neptune-Sedgwick

Event Comment: Afterpiece: Not acted these 3 years. Receipts: #169 6s. (136.6; 31.0; 2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder
Event Comment: [For the naming of the characters in mainpiece, as they were called originally, see 23 Feb. 1792.] Receipts: #218 5s. 6d. (184.6.6; 30.2.0; 3.17.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Regent

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: In afterpiece: Dances, as17921227

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Pirates; afterpiece of Tit for Tat, both advertised on playbill of 7 Jan.] Receipts: #156 18s. 6d. (112.5.6; 39.7.0; 5.6.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: Harlequins Invasion

Dance: In afterpiece: Dances, as17921227

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 9 years [not acted since 28 May 1783]. [Afterpiece in place of The Prisoner, advertised on playbill of 8 Jan.] Receipts: #101 18s. 6d. (67.7.6; 28.1.0; 6.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Foundling

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Dance: As17921102

Song: As17921102

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Heiress, advertised on playbill of 10 Jan.] Receipts: #126 0s. 6d. (91.3.6; 28.16.0; 6.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 5 years. Receipts: #224 4s. (162.6; 53.10; 8.5; ticket not come in: 0.3)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Chances

Performance Comment: Duke of Ferrara-Whitfield; Petruchio-Benson; Don John-Palmer; Don Frederick-Barrymore; Antonio-Waldron; Gent. to the Duke-Phillimore, Cooke, Maddocks; Gent. to Petruchio-Caulfield, Bland, Welsh; Peter-Burton; Antony-Wewitzer; Surgeon-Fawcett; Francisco-Hollingsworth; Servants-Webb, Alfred; First Constantia-Mrs Powell; Mother@in@Law to Constantia-Mrs Hopkins; Second Constantia-Miss Farren; Kinswoman-Miss Heard; Landlady-Mrs Booth; Nurse-Mrs Edwin.

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Matthew Actor: Fawcett

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Song: As17921016

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: The Cheats of Scapin

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Artaxerxes

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Performance Comment: As17930119, but Genariello-Caulfield in place of Dignum; Captain of the Guard-Cooke in place of Caulfield.

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

Event Comment: Mainpiece: To conclude with a Grand Procession of the Hundred Knights of Chivalry, and the Representation of an Ancient Tournament, under the direction of Dubois. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] With a new Overture and new Additional Musick, by Storace, Shaw, and other Eminent Masters. And new Dresses, Decorations and Machinery. [Miss Redhead is identified in Kemble Mem.] Account-Book, 20 Dec. 1792: Paid Kemble to purchase horses for Cymon #180 14s. 6d. (223.11.6; 55.4.0; 3.19.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Performance Comment: Merlin-Bannister; Cymon-Kelly; Dorus-Wewitzer; Linco-Bannister Jun.; Damon-Bland; Dorilas-Cooke; Daemon of Revenge-Sedgwick; Cupid-Master Welsh; Urganda-Mrs Crouch; Sylvia-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Redhead]); Fatima-Mrs Goodall; Phebe-Miss DeCamp; Daphne-Mrs Bland; Dorcas-Mr Suett; [In Tournament: Knights-Dubois, Fairbrother.
Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Event Comment: Genest, VII, 88: On this evening there was not any play performed, from respect to the memory of the unfortunate monarch, Louis 16th, who was murdered in Paris on that day [sic] -Kemble, without consulting Sheridan, closed the theatre -Sheridan, who was out of town, arrived late that evening, and finding there was no play, was highly incensed at the shutting up of the theatre upon such an occasion; for, he said, it was an invariable maxim with him, that neither politics nor religion should be taken notice of in his playhouse, yet no man deplored the tragical event more sincerely than he did. (Kelly, Reminiscences, II, 37). [The playbill of 23 Jan. advertises Cymon and The Ghost for this present evening.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings None

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Ghost

Related Works
Related Work: The Devil to Pay; or, The Wives Metamorphos'd Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Liar

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of The Haunted Tower; afterpiece of The Farm House, both advertised on playbill of 31 Jan.] Receipts: #137 14s. 6d. (99.11.6; 36.8.0; 1.15.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

Related Works
Related Work: The Humourists Author(s): Theophilus Cibber

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

Related Works
Related Work: Tit for Tat Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At Kings Cymon

Cast
Role: Knights Actor: Dubois, Fairbrother.

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice