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Event Comment: [1st piece in place of The Comet; 3rd piece of The Agreeable Surprise, both advertised on playbill of 4 Aug.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Farm House

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Iliff

Dance: As17900722

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Gretna Green

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Afterpiece Title: The Minor

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Iliff

Dance: As17900722

Entertainment: Monologue. After the Dancing: Liberty, as17900813

Performance Comment: After the Dancing: Liberty, as17900813.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Liar

Afterpiece Title: Tit for Tat

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

Afterpiece Title: Gretna Green

Cast
Role: The Minor Actor: Iliff
Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of Katherine and Petruchio, advertised on playbill of 2 Sept.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tit For Tat

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

Afterpiece Title: The Son-in-Law

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Son-in-law

Afterpiece Title: Inkle and Yarico

Related Works
Related Work: Inkle and Yarico Author(s): George Colman, the younger
Event Comment: By Desire of the Cherokee Chiefs [so playbill of 23 Nov.; see cg, 12 Nov.]. Receipts: #199 3s. (160.2; 36.6; 2.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Cast
Role: The Mask Actor: Kelly

Song: As17901011

Event Comment: By Command of Their Majesties. Receipts: #305 (288.5.0; 16.6.6; 0.8.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Event Comment: The Public is most respectfully informed that in consequence of the sudden Indisposition of Mrs Jordan the New Comedy is unavoidably deferred. [The original playbill and Public Advertiser both announce the 6th night of Better Late than Never (see 29 Dec.). The above is from a second playbill for this night in BM (Burney 937.c.7). "Mrs Jordan's Illness defers...Better Late than Never" (Kemble Mem., which lists the substitutes play).] Receipts: #123 5s. (83.19.0; 33.4.6; 6.1.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Cast
Role: The Mask Actor: Kelly
Event Comment: The School for Scandal [advertised on playbill of 8 Dec.] is deferred on account of Kemble's Illness. Receipts: #184 14s. (132.6.0; 45.3.6; 6.19.6; tickets not come in: 0.5.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Performance Comment: As17901004, but Dorothy-Mrs Bland [i.e. formerly Miss Romanzini]; Grandmother-_.
Cast
Role: Grandmother Actor: Mrs Booth.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Adventurers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Cast
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Fairbrother

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Favour

Cast
Role: Scaramouch Actor: Fairbrother

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Event Comment: [Afterpiece in place of The Fairy Favour, advertised on playbill of 26 Mar.] Receipts: #329 13s. 6d. (318.2.0; 11.1.6; 0.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Performance Comment: Duke of Venice-Fawcett; Brabantio-Aickin; Gratiano-Phillimore; Lodovico-Packer; Othello-Kemble; Cassio-Barrymore; Iago-Bensley; Roderigo-Dodd; Montano-Whitfield; Desdemona-Mrs Siddons; AEmilia-Mrs Ward.
Cast
Role: Othello Actor: Kemble

Afterpiece Title: The Deaf Lover

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Cast
Role: Master of the Horse Actor: Alfred

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Crouch. Afterpiece [1st time; CO 2, by Prince Hoare, based on La Grotta di Trofonio, by Giovanni Battista Casti. Not in Larpent MS; not published]; Written by the Author of No Song No Supper. The Music composed principally by Storace [partly adapted from Salieri, composer of Casti's opera; one song each by Anna Storace, Thomas Attwood, Giovanni Paisiello, Richard Suett]. Oracle, 28 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Crouch, No. 26, Bridges-street. Receipts: #280 2s. (100.12.0; 33.13.6; 4.13.6; tickets: 141.3.0) (charge: #119 9s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Know Your Own Mind

Afterpiece Title: The Cave of Trophonius

Event Comment: Benefit for Barrymore. A new Edition of [The Country Girl] to be had at the Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 27 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Barrymore, No. 11, Bedford-street, Bedford-row. Receipts: #305 0s. 6d. (84.4.0; 25.13.6; 5.0.0; tickets: 190.3.0) (charge: #115 6s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country Girl

Cast
Role: Alithea Actor: Mrs Ward

Afterpiece Title: The Pannel

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Performance Comment: As17901124, but The new Epilogue-Miss Farren.

Afterpiece Title: The Island of St

Cast
Role: The Mask Actor: Kelly

Song: As17901124, but Vocal Parts-Mrs Bland

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Haunted Tower

Afterpiece Title: Bon Ton

Performance Comment: As17910128, but Sir John Trotley [without the Prologue]-Bensley (1st appearance in that character).

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Belgrade

Afterpiece Title: The Spoil'd Child

Event Comment: Benefit for a Fund for the Relief of those whose Infirmities oblige them to retire from the Stage. The whole Pit will be laid into the Boxes. Those Ladies and Gentlemen who have seats in the Pit are earnestly requested to be early at the Theatre, and Servants are desired to attend at half past Four o'Clock to keep Places. "The fine tragic powers of [Mrs Siddons] and Kemble were but wasted on the turgid trumpery of the play...But Kemble in this scene [end of Act III] was so impassioned and transcendent that it killed all the rest of the piece. The scorn of Mrs Siddons at his dissimulation--her haughty bearing and marking emphasis, with the piercing powers of her eye, are all treasured where they should be" (Oracle, 16 May). Receipts: #117 14s. (107.11.0; 9.12.6; 0.10.6; tickets: none listed, but Oracle, 17 May, reports that tickets were purchased for as much as one guinea and a half) (charge: free)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Afterpiece Title: All the World's a Stage