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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "F R D Needham"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "F R D Needham")') GROUP BY eventid ORDER BY weight() desc, eventdate asc OPTION field_weights=(perftitleclean=100, commentpclean=75, commentcclean=75, roleclean=100, performerclean=100, authnameclean=100), ranker=sph04
We found 1834 matches on Performance Comments, 409 matches on Author, 393 matches on Event Comments, 48 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.
Event Comment: Betterton's Company. Possibly Edmund Warcup attended this performance: Soe to the play with Dr Needham (The Journals of Edmund Warcup, 1676-1684, ed. Keith Feiling and F. R. D. Needham, English Historical Review, XL [1925], 241)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mourning Bride

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Honorius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Meraspe O L'olimpiade

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Committee; Or, The Faithful Irishman

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: Punches by Janno and F. Tench. The Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. Watteau by Miss Robinson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Volpone

Music: Select Pieces

Dance: I: Let Polichinelles by Janno and F. Tench. II: Clown by Nivelon. III: Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann. IV: Scaramouch by Janno. V: Mock Minuet, as17331027

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Iv, Part I

Afterpiece Title: The Covent Garden Tragedy

Music: A Piece of Musick upon the Common Flute by a Gentleman, composed by Sig Valesciene

Dance: Two Pierrots by F. Tench and Davenport. Scotch Dance by Mr and Mrs Davenport. The Whim by F. Tench and Miss Mann

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Coxcombs

Dance: I: Statue Dance-; End Opera: Dance-the Characters; End Dance: Hornpipe-Lepper

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Girl in Style

Dance: As17861117

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: Bonds without Judgement; or, The Loves of Bengal

Dance: As17870217

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in London; or, The Happy African

Dance: I: a Fair Scene-; Statute Dance-; End: As17920410

Song: In afterpiece: a Planxty, descriptive of Ireland If you travel the wide world all over (Morning Herald, 23 Apr.)-Johnstone in Character

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Spanish Barber

Afterpiece Title: The Portrait

Entertainment: Imitations End: Theatrical Imitations Serious, Comic, Vocal, and Rhetorical,-Rees; Duologue End afterpiece: Hobby@Horses Describing the Statesman's Hobby, the Ladies' Hobby, the Lawyer's Hobby, the Physician's Hobby, the Manager's Hobby, and R. Palmer's own Hobby,-R. Palmer, Iliff

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: Wit's Last Stake

Afterpiece Title: The Deserter

Song: V: a song, as17990214

Entertainment: Monologue End: The Picture of a Play House; or, Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer; Vaudeville II 3rd piece: Military Manoeuvres-; The Dead March-; the Ceremony Shooting a Deserter-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Bold Stroke For A Wife

Afterpiece Title: The Quaker

Dance: End IV: a Hornpipe-Walker

Entertainment: Monologue End: Bucks have at ye all-R. Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Afterpiece Title: The Divorce

Song: In Act IV of mainpiece Time bas not thinn'd my flowing Hair by Williames and Miss Phillips

Monologue: 1783 05 14 End of mainpiece The Picture of a Playhouse; or, Bucks have at ye all by R. Palmer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Peeping Tom

Afterpiece Title: The Swop

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Next Door Neighbours

Afterpiece Title: The Padlock

Afterpiece Title: The Irishman in Spain

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Child Of Nature

Afterpiece Title: The Fairy Festival

Afterpiece Title: The Wandering Jew; or, Love's Masquerade

Dance: As17970513

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry Viii

Afterpiece Title: Tony Lumpkin in Town; or, The Dilettante

Dance: As17780623

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Afterpiece Title: The Best Bidder

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Manager In Distress

Afterpiece Title: Summer Amusement

Afterpiece Title: Seeing is Believing: A Dramatic Proverb

Dance: As17830610

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Fatal Curiosity

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Dance: As17840528

Song: As17840617

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Afterpiece Title: A Beggar on Horseback: A Dramatic Proverb

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Afterpiece Title: The Projects

Dance: End of Act I of mainpiece The Lucky Return, as17860105

Song: In Act V of mainpiece a song by Mrs Forster

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Widow's Vow

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Afterpiece Title: The First Floor

Dance: End III: a new Dance, La Soiree Provencalle-the two young D'Egvilles, Miss DeCamp