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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Giles"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Giles")') 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

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319 results for: Keyword - Giles
We found 315 matches on Roles/Actors, 103 matches on Performance Comments, 23 matches on Event Comments, 0 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

301
30 May 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Disinterested Love

Afterpiece Title: Starboard Watch

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Cast
Role: Farmer Giles Actor: Townsend

Entertainment: Monologue.Preceding 1st piece: a new Occasional Prologue-Holman

302
04 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Cast
Role: Farmer Giles Actor: Townsend

303
January 1664 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: The Duke's Company. William Hamon (or Hammond) saw a performance near the end of the period between Michaelmas 1663 and Lady Day 1664. The entry in his journal (which I owe to the courtesy of Dr. Giles Dawson) reads: Item spent in carrying Mrs & sistar to King Lear 00 09 06 (Folger MS. v. a. 422)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

304
21 April 1710 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit Cole and Giles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Oroonoko

Entertainment: To be expressed in the Bills

305
10 August 1715 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Giles and Martin. At the Desire of several Ladies of Quality. Receipts: #69 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Song: 'Tis Sultry Weather Pretty Maid-Cook, Mrs Thurmond

Dance: Entry-Thurmond Jr; French Peasant-Thurmond Jr, Mrs Cross; Miller's Dance-Spiller, Mrs Spiller, F. Leigh

306
03 June 1717 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Hall (Wardrobe Keeper), Mines, Gallant, Giles, Oder. Receipts: money #8 3s. 6d.; tickets #110 5s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Island Princess

Dance: As17170510

307
29 May 1721 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Giles, Rowland, Widow Bewley.Receipts: money #5 14s.; tickets #109 19s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cheats

Song: Harper's Mimic Scene, Song of 4 and 20 Stockjobbers-Harper

308
01 June 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Smith, Morgan, Giles. Being the last Time of the Company's Acting this Season. Receipts: money #20 3s. 6d.; tickets #92 10s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Dance: Lally, Mrs Rogier; Hornpipe-Jones

309
18 May 1723 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Pelling, Giles, and Widow Rackstraw. Written by Shakespear. Receipts: money #9; tickets #58 9s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Dance: Lally, Lally Jr, Pelling, Mrs Rogeir, Miss Bullock; particularly Myrtillo-

310
01 June 1724 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Giles, Tubman, Mrs Aylett. Receipts: money #7 15s. 6d.; tickets #96 6s

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Dance: Country Lass-Mrs Brett; Louvre-Mrs Wall; Dutch Boor-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden

311
21 May 1725 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Giles, Randal, Mrs Aylett. Receipts: money #8 11s.; tickets #140 1Os

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Massaniello

Song: The Original Song: In Praise of Fishing-

Dance: End II: Louvre-Mrs Wall; III: Irish Dance-Newhouse, Mrs Ogden; IV: Chacone-Mrs Bullock; V: Polonese-Lally, Mrs Wall

312
19 June 1730 @ Goodman's Fields

Event Comment: Benefit Beeson and Giles

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fair Quaker Of Deal

Afterpiece Title: Flora

Dance: TThe White Joke-Eaton; Two Pierrots-Burny, Eaton

313
29 May 1740 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit Bowcher and Giles. Afterpiece: With several Additions by the Author. [Tickets for Holland also taken.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: The Parting Lovers

Dance: I: Grand Ballet-Desse,Miss Oates; III: A Comic Dance-Richardson, Mrs LeBrun; V: Grand Ballet-Glover, Mlle Roland

314
24 April 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Sg Daigville & Signa Vidini. [24 April letter signed Ned Shuter dated from his Majesty's Bench of Justice, St Georges Fields: "Theatrical Memoirs giving circumstantial account of my family-Admit my father was a chairman, my mother sold oysters in winter and cucumbers in summer. I was not born in a cellar but in a two pair of stairs front room at one Mrs Merit's an eminent Chimney Sweeper, Vine Street, St Giles" (Winston MS 10). Thomas Weston's apology for the delay of his Benefit. It was owing to his distressed affairs which he had new laid open to the managers. See comment form Edinburg Evening Courant, 29 April.] Paid Renters #88 for Oratorio nights; Mr Dibdin's draft on managers #50; Master Brown 5 nights, #1 17s. 6d.; Rec'd from Messrs Smith and Stanley charges for 11 Oratorio nights at 28# per night, plus candles &c . #342 4s.; Rec'd stopages #9 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #151 4s. Charges: #65 11s. Profits to Daigville & Sga Vidini: #85 13s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Twelfth Night

Afterpiece Title: The Mayor of Garratt

Dance: I: The European in America (for 1st time this Season)-Messieurs Daigvilles, Miss Ross, Sga Vidini; II: A Comic Dance, as17720326 V: Psiche, a Grand Historical Ballet (Never performed before)-Daigville, Giorgi, Sga Daigville, Miss Ross, Sga Vidini

315
05 November 1773 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Paid Younger for writting parts #10 4s. 9d.; Paid Mrs Giles for a Blue & Silver suit of women's cloaths #9 9s. (Account Book). To Covent Garden. Beggar's Opera and Commissary. Found the Pit not over fifth full, and on the 4th bench from orchestra orange woman showed me Pol. Kennedy alias Mrs Bevon, on which I went and sat immediately before her, and talked with her much during the play. Pol. Kennedy in cloak and large hat. She is tall, large and raw-boned. Irish features, yet had something in her face and person necessarily attracting notice--was very civil, curteous, and chatty (Baker, Diary, p. 270). [Pol. Kennedy was the Irish actress and contralto who later appeared as Mrs Farrell at dl in 1776 in Arne's Caractacus.] Receipts: #122 6s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

316
19 May 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Crawford. Received from Miss Giles #100 for Fruit Office. Receipts: #111 13s. (45.9.0; 17.15.6; 0.3.6; tickets: 48.5.0) (charge: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: Catherine and Petruchio

Music: End: a favorite trio performed on a guittar (composed by Giardini) for a violin, guittar and Violoncello,-Crawford

317
13 December 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mainpiece [1st time; CO 3, by Richard Tickell, some of the songs attributed to Richard Brinsley Sheridan; synopsis of plot in Public Advertiser, 18 Dec. Songs (no pub., 1781) omits several [i.e. all the non-singing] characters. MS not in Larpent; not published]: With entirely new Music and a new Overture [by Thomas Linley Sen.]. To conclude with a View of St. Mark's Place, and a grand Representation of the Carnival. With new Scenes, Dresses, and Decorations, designed by De Loutherbourg, and executed under his Direction. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Public Advertiser, 19 Dec. 1781: This Day are published the Songs in The Carnival of Venice (6d.). Account-Book, 11 Jan. 1782: Received from Miss Giles for 1,550 Books of the Songs in the Carnival #31. Receipts: #225 18s. 6d. (216/4/0; 9/14/6; 0/0/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Carnival Of Venice

Afterpiece Title: The Apprentice

318
08 December 1787 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: [In mainpiece the playbill lists Mrs Brereton as Louisa Dudley, but she had been married to J. P. Kemble on the morning of this day at St. Giles in the Fields.] Receipts: #80 9s. (60.13; 19.1; 0.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The West Indian

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

319
13 June 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The last Time of the Company's performing this Season. Account-Book, 17 June: Received of Miss Giles, Fruit Office, #50; of His Majesty #48; paid 96 Renters between June and Sept. #20 18s. apiece. Receipts: #138 14s. (106.2.0; 30.9.6; 2.2.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Constant Couple

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion