07 March 1668
Event Information
Theatre:
The (first) Drury Lane Theatre
Theatrical Season:
1667-1668
Volume:
1
Comments:
The King's Company. Pepys, Diary: To the King's playhouse, and there saw The Spanish Gypsys, the second time of acting, and the first that I saw it. A very silly play, only great variety of dances, and those most excellently done, especially one part by one Hanes [Jo. Haynes], only lately come thither from the Nursery, an understanding fellow, but yet, they say, hath spent #1,000 a-year before he come thither