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Event Comment: Written by the Author of the Busie-Body [Susanna Centlivre]. A New Comedy

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artifice

Event Comment: Benefit Coe. At the Theatrical Booth in Bird Cage Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: With a new Prologue, Epilogue-.

Entertainment: Singing-; Hornpipe-Jones; Tumbling-Mr Fawks's famous Boy

Event Comment: At the particular Desire of several Persons of Quality. London Journal, 20 Oct.: The Beginning of November will be acted Sir Richard Steel's new Play, which has been some Time in Rehearsal;...it is thought by some excellent Judges to be the best Comedy that ever appear'd on the English Stage

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Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice; Or, It Cannot Be

Performance Comment: Sir Courtly-Cibber; Belguard-Mills; Surly-Harper; Hothead-Miller; Testimony-Johnson; Crack-Penkethman; Leonora-Mrs Thurmond; Violante-Mrs Bicknell.
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Role: Hothead Actor: Miller

Afterpiece Title: The Escapes of Harlequin

Music: Between the Acts: Select Piece-

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Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17230118 With a new Prologue.
Cast
Role: Theseus Actor: Boheme

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Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Performance Comment: As17230118 With a new Prologue.
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Role: Theseus Actor: Boheme
Event Comment: Benefit Betty Smith and Mrs Orfeur. All the Characters new dress'd. Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. At 6 p.m

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Bonduca; Or, The British General

Related Works
Related Work: Bonduca; or, The British Worthy Author(s): George Powell
Related Work: Bonduca Author(s): George Colman, the elder

Dance: Dancing Proper to the Play-; particularly, Dancing-Girl of Six years of Age, for her Diversion, Scholar to Mr Roussau; being the first Time she ever appeared on the Stage

Event Comment: [By Elijah Fenton.] With all new Habits. Receipts: #124 14s

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Mainpiece Title: Mariamne

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. London Journal, 2 March: The new Opera Tickets are very high, and like to continue so as long as Mrs Cotzoni is so much admired. They are traded in at the other End of the Town, as much as Lottery Tickets are in Exchange-Alley

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Burlesque Entertainment of Dancing. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 30 March: The Managers of Drury-lane Theatre observing how successful Lincoln's-Inn-Fields has been in several Entertainments, in which the Character of a Harlequin has the principal Part, were resolv'd to cut them out, and therefore prepared...Blind Man's Bluff, to be perform'd by no less than eight Harlequins; for, in their Way of Reasoning, eight Harlequins must divert much better than one; the Thing was so ridiculous there was no Musick to be heard but Hissing. [For an essay on the improvement of the stage, see Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 16 March.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love For Love

Afterpiece Title: Blind Man's Bluff

Event Comment: With an Addition of Four new Songs. Admission as 7 Nov. 1722

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Admission as 7 Nov. 1722. The Royal Academy of Musick, to prevent the Crowd and Disorders at the Practices of the New Opera, have resolved that no Persons shall be admitted to such Practices, but by Tickets to be deliver'd at their Office the same Evening, at one Guinea each Ticket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Coriolanus

Event Comment: Benefit Boheme. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Receipts: money #63 16s. 6d.; tickets #81 4s. Weekly Journal or Saturday's Post, 6 April: The Report of Mr Boheme of the New Play-House leaving that Theatre to go to Drury-Lane is entirely groundless

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oedipus, King Of Thebes

Event Comment: Benefit a Person who has been a great Sufferer in Trade, and is new under Confinement for Debt. Written by Shakespear

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

Event Comment: Afterpiece: A new Night Scene

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Boy

Afterpiece Title: Hob; or, The Country Wake

Afterpiece Title: The Tricks of Harlequin; or, The Doctor Defeated

Event Comment: First Piece; [Author unknown. Apparently not published.] A New Farce of Two Acts. Second Piece: Written by Aaron Hill, Esq. Third Piece: The Words by Mr Motteux, and set to Musick by Mr Eccles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: It Should Have Come Sooner: Being The Historick, Tragic Comic Humours Of Exchange Alley

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Afterpiece Title: Acis and Galatea

Dance: Saraband-Miss Tenoe; Drunken Man-Harper

Music: As17230625

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. With an intire new Sett of Scenes representing Ancient Rome, Painted by Monsieur Devoto

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar; With The Death Of Brutus And Cassius

Event Comment: Afterpiece: [Author unknown.] A new Entertainment of Vocal and Instrumental Musick. At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. N.B. The printed Books for this Entertainment will be sold at the Theatre. Price 6d. Receipts: #116 3s. 6d

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Union of the Three Sister Arts

Dance: Dupre, Nivelon, Glover, Mrs Rogier, Mrs Wall, Mrs Bullock

Event Comment: [By Aaron Hill.] On Shakespear's Foundation. With several Sets of Scenes entirely new and properWto the Play. [In an advance notice in Daily Journal, 6 Nov., the scenes are reported to be designed by Signior Angelo, an Italian.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Vth; Or, The Conquest Of France By The English

Performance Comment: Edition of 1723 lists: King Henry-Booth; Dauphin-Wilks; King of France-Thurmond; Princess Catherine-Mrs Oldfield; Harriet-Mrs Thurmond; Charlot-Mrs Campbell; Duke of Exeter-Mills; Duke of York-Cory; Lord Scroop-Williams; Duke of Bourbon-Bridgwater; Duke of Orleans-Watson; Earl of Cambridge-Mills Jr; Sir Thomas Grey-Oates; French Officer-Roberts; Prologue-Wilks; Epilogue-Mrs Oldfield.
Event Comment: [By Sandford.] All the Characters being entirely new dress'd. [The Preface gives a long account of the difficulties attendant on the production, particularly the inexperience of the amateur performers.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Female Fop; Or, The False One Fitted

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Hill

Event Comment: By the New Company of Comedians. Written by the late Mr Rowe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Penitent

Song: Original Song-Mrs Hill

Dance: Two Children, Scholars to Mrs Roussau

Event Comment: Not Acted these Twenty Years. Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

Event Comment: [Author unknown.] A New Dramatick Entertainment in Grotesque Characters. N.B. None will be admitted into the Boxes but by Printed Tickets which will be deliver'd at the Door at 5s. each. Pit 3s. Gallery 2s. Receipts: #162 1s. London Journal, 28 Dec.: 'Tis said, they had not less than 260l. in the House

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Drummer

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer; or, Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: Written by the Lord Lansdowne. With new Scenes and Habits

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heroick Love

Event Comment: One of the Actors being indispos'd, the new Play called The Captives is deferr'd till further Notice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Doctor Faustus

Event Comment: By Their Royal Highnesses's Command. N.B. We are obliged to defer the New Tragedy, called Edwin, till further Notice. Receipts: #156 7s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Pilgrim

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer