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5444 results for: Keyword - English and Irish Stage
We found 2551 matches on Event Comments, 1762 matches on Performance Comments, 1632 matches on Performance Title, 0 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

3701
12 October 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #122 12s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 16W176 paid and 29 orders; stage, 3 paid; pit, 259 paid and 16 orders; slip, 24 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 248 paid and o orders; second gallery, 101 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistake

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Performance Comment: Apollo-Salle; 1st Nymph-Mrs Bullock; 2d-Mrs Pelling; 3d-Mrs Ogden; 4th-Mrs Anderson; Daphne-Mrs Laguerre; Morpheus-Leveridge; Mystery-Legare; Slumber-Salway; Burgomaster-Nivelon; Boor Servant-Spiller; Scaramouch-Newhouse; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Harlequin-Lun; Peasants-Newhouse, Pelling, Lanyon; Women Peasants-Mrs Vincent, Mrs Ogden, Mrs Rice; Venus-Mrs Seedo; Diana-Mrs Chambers; Silenus-Leveridge; Bacchus-Salway; Pan-Legare; Zephyrus-Salle; Spaniard-Dupre; Polonese-Pelling; Frenchman-Poitier; Spanish Woman-Mrs Bullock; Polonese Woman-Mrs Pelling; French Woman-Mrs Anderson; Flora-Mrs Laguerre.
Cast
Role: 4th Actor: Mrs Anderson
Role: French Woman Actor: Mrs Anderson

3702
20 October 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #57 16s. Probable attendance: boxes, 69 paid and 18 orders; stage, 4 paid; pit, 122 paid and 25 orders; slips, 11 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 124 paid and 27 orders; second gallery, 65 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne

Cast
Role: 4th Actor: Mrs Anderson
Role: French Woman Actor: Mrs Anderson

3703
26 October 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Written by Shakespear. Daily Journal, 28 Oct.: The same Night [Thursday 26] a Gentlewoman fancying she saw Smoke issue from under the Stage, as she sat in the Pit, during the Play Time,...and at the same time believing she smelt Fire, declared her Opinion so loud, and by her precipitate Endeavours to get out, gave such an Alarm all over the House, as was attended with the fatal Consequence of one Woman big with Child being press'd to Death, and several others Persons were very much bruised. [See also Daily Post, 27 Oct. A reward of #20 was offered by John Rich for the apprehension of the malicious ill designing Persons" who presumably occasioned the incident.-Daily Journal, 31 Oct.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Viiith

3704
27 October 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #34 8s. Probable attendance: boxes, 34 paid and 11 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 72 paid and 17 orders; slips, 3 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 87 paid and 24 orders; second gallery, 83 paid and 7 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: Jupiter and Europa; or, The Intrigues of Harlequin

Performance Comment: Jupiter-Lun; Mercury-Legar; Leander (Mars)-Dupre; Scaramouch (Pan)-Lanyon; Mezzetin (Apollo)-Glover; Punch (Pluto)-Newhouse; Doctor (Neptune)-Dupre Jr; Pierrot (Hercules)-Pelling; Europa-Mrs Legar; Clown-Spiller; Colombine-Mrs Egleton.
Cast
Role: Leander Actor: Dupre

3705
31 October 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Written by Dryden and Lee. Receipts: #41 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 31 paid and 9 orders; stage, 3 paid; pit, 118 paid and 24 orders; slips, 4 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 141 paid and 46 orders; second gallery, 147 paid and 5 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

3706
08 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #43 9s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 71 paid and 16 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 101 paid and 18 orders; slips, 2 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 65 paid and 18 orders; second gallery, 48 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3707
09 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #136 3s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 200 paid and 11 orders; stage, 2 paid; balcony, 1 paid; pit, 280 paid and 5 orders; slips, 31 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 312 paid and 3 orders; second gallery, 112 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: Ceres-Mrs Barbier; Proserpine-Mrs Chambers; Jupiter-Rochetti; Mercury-Legar; Sylvans-Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden; Gods of the Woods-Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling; Sicilians-Glover, Newhouse, Lanyon, Dupre Jr; Pluto-Leveridge; Demons-Salle, Dupre, Poitier, Pelling, Newhouse; Yeoman-Nivelon; Clodpole-Spiller; Old Man-Smith; Harlequin-Lun; Colombine-Mrs Younger; Old Woman-Miss Latour; Countrymen and Lasses-Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice; Savoyard-Salway; Gardeners-Lanyon, Smith; Earth-Dupre; Air-Glover; Fire-Poitier; Water-Salle; Females-Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.
Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice
Role: Females Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.

3708
21 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #21 14s. Probable attendance: boxes, 13 paid and 11 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 55 paid and 12 orders; slips, 1 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 70 paid and 14 orders; second gallery, 36 paid and 4 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Prophetess

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Dance: As17271107

3709
22 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #45 6s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 36 paid and 6 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 114 paid and 15 orders; slips, 6 paid and 4 orders; first gallery, 117 paid and 18 orders; second gallery, 66 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge; Or, A Match In Newgate

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Cast
Role: 4th Actor: Mrs Anderson
Role: French Woman Actor: Mrs Anderson

3710
25 November 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #107 2s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 135 paid and 4 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 283 paid and 3 orders; slips, 14 paid and 5 orders; first gallery, 230 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 77 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Country House

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: As17271109 and Scene as17271124 .
Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice
Role: Females Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.

3711
05 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #52 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 29 paid and 13 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 141 paid and 11 orders; slips, 15 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 141 paid and 10 orders; second gallery, 66 paid and 1 order

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats Of Scapin

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: See17271109 [and See17271124.

3712
06 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #51. Probable attendance: boxes, 25 paid and 21 orders; stage, 2 paid; pit, 136 paid and 17 orders; slips, 6 paid and 7 orders; first gallery, 157 paid and 11 orders; second gallery, 71 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performance Comment: See17271109 [and See17271124.

3713
07 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #17 16s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 14 paid and 8 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 49 paid and 24 orders; slips, 4 paid; first gallery, 42 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 35 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Camilla

3714
11 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not Acted these Seven Years. Afterpiece: A Burlesque Farce. Receipts: #72 16s. Probable attendance: boxes, 97 paid and 10 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 168 paid and 5 orders; slips, 16 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 137 paid and 1 order; second gallery, 113 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Anna Bullen

3715
13 December 1727 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Written Originally by Shakespear. [By Lewis Theobald.] Theophilus Cibber: [Booth's] Illness...returned soon after his playing King Henry VIII. He was then studying the Part of Julio in the Double Falsehood; he rehearsed it several times,-when the Play begin ready for acting, he was prevented appearing in it, by a Relapse into his former Indisposition.-The Part was supplied a few Nights by Mr Charles Williams (a promising Player, who died young) to whom Mr Booth had given the Part to study, as doubting the Certainty of his being able to appear in it himself: But, at Mr Theobald's Entreaty (backed by many Gentlemen and Ladies) he good-naturedly (but fatally) disregarded his Indisposition, which was then an intermitting Fever, and acted that Part from the fifth to the twelfth Night; which was alas! the last time of his Appearance on tle Stage.-Lives and Characters, pp. 82-83

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Double Falshood; Or, The Distrest Lovers

3716
18 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #39 15s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 33 paid and 8 orders; stage, 4 paid; pit, 77 paid and 44 orders; slips, 13 paid and 3 orders; first gallery, 103 paid and 22 orders; second gallery, 92 paid and 5 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Fryar

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Harlequin Man and Woman Actor: Dupre, Mrs Anderson
Role: Mezzetin Man and Woman Actor: Glover, Mrs Pelling.
Role: Mezzetin Woman Actor: Mrs Anderson.
Role: Good and Evil Genius Actor: Leveridge, Legar, Mrs Chambers
Role: Pierrot Man and Woman Actor: Pelling, Mrs Bullock
Role: Scaramouch Man and Woman Actor: Lanyan, Mrs Laguerre

3717
22 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #39 10s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 41 paid and 20 orders; stage, 5 paid; pit, 81 paid and 19 orders; slips, 9 paid and 6 orders; first gallery, 107 paid and 21 orders; second gallery, 39 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist; Or, The Sham-doctor

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

3718
26 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #80 1s. Probable attendance: boxes, 30 paid and 6 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 160 paid and 16 orders; slips, 27 paid and 1 order; first gallery, 279 paid and 4 orders; second gallery, 226 paid

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The London Cuckolds

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin a Sorcerer

3719
27 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #64 10s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 25 paid and 3 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 111 paid and 19 orders; slips, 22 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 196 paid and 7 orders; second gallery, 232 paid and 3 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Woman's Revenge

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Cast
Role: 4th Actor: Mrs Anderson
Role: French Woman Actor: Mrs Anderson

3720
30 December 1727 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #56 6s. Probable attendance: boxes, 40 paid and 23 orders; stage, 4 paid; Pit, 109 paid and 27 orders; slips, 18 paid and 11 orders; first gallery, 161 paid and 8 orders; second gallery, 196 paid and 5 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Harlequin Man and Woman Actor: Dupre, Mrs Anderson
Role: Mezzetin Man and Woman Actor: Glover, Mrs Pelling.
Role: Mezzetin Woman Actor: Mrs Anderson.
Role: Good and Evil Genius Actor: Leveridge, Legar, Mrs Chambers
Role: Pierrot Man and Woman Actor: Pelling, Mrs Bullock
Role: Scaramouch Man and Woman Actor: Lanyan, Mrs Laguerre

3721
02 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #21 11s. Probable attendance: boxes, 14 paid and 5 orders; stage, 1 paid; pit, 43 paid and 25 orders; slips, 3 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 113 paid and 31 orders; second gallery, 80 paid and 7 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Dance: As17271026

Song: As17271026

3722
03 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #47 2s. Probable attendance: boxes, 31 paid and 11 orders; stage, 6 paid; Pit, 81 paid and 59 orders; slips, 11 paid and orders; first gallery, 137 paid and 20 orders; second gallery, 99 paid and 4 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Richard The Third

Afterpiece Title: Apollo and Daphne; or, The Burgo-Master Trick'd

Cast
Role: 4th Actor: Mrs Anderson
Role: French Woman Actor: Mrs Anderson

3723
05 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #65 11s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 37 paid and 16 orders; stage, 4 paid; pit, 172 paid and 50 orders; slips, 14 paid and 2 orders; first gallery, 189 paid and 61 orders; second gallery, 74 paid and 2 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Double Dealer

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice
Role: Females Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.

3724
10 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #87 19s. Probable attendance: boxes, 78 paid and 20 orders; stage, 3 paid; pit, 206 paid and 55 orders; slips, 14 paid and 8 orders; first gallery, 226 paid and 32 orders; second gallery, 118 paid and 6 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Confederacy

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Cast
Role: Sylvans Actor: Mrs Laguerre, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Ogden
Role: Countrymen and Lasses Actor: Newhouse, Dupre, Lanyon, Mrs Vincent, Miss Fenton, Mrs Rice
Role: Females Actor: Mrs Pelling, Mrs Anderson, Mrs Bullock, Mrs Laguerre.

3725
15 January 1728 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Receipts: #47 6s. 6d. Probable attendance: boxes, 44 paid and 16 orders; stage, 1 paid; balcony, 2 paid; pit, 124 paid and 18 orders; slips, 2 paid; first gallery, 102 paid and 9 orders; second gallery, 79 paid and 2 orders

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thomyris, Queen Of Scythia