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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Litchfield"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Litchfield")') 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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151 results for: Keyword - Litchfield
We found 178 matches on Roles/Actors, 64 matches on Performance Comments, 12 matches on Event Comments, 3 matches on Performance Title, and 0 matches on Author.

51
23 December 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Essex; Or, The Unhappy Favorite

Performance Comment: Essex-Holman; Burleigh-Murray; Raleigh-Claremont; Lieutenant-Thompson; Southampton-Betterton; Rutland-Miss Betterton; Nottingham-Mrs Litchfield; Queen Elizabeth-Mrs St.Ledger.
Cast
Role: Nottingham Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano; or, The Rival Harlequins

52
11 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Abroad And At Home

Performance Comment: Harcourt-Incledon; Sir Simon Flourish-Emery; Captain O'Neill-Johnstone; Old Testy-Munden; Young Flourish-Fawcett; Young Testy-Knight; Bluff-Gardner; Snare-Claremont; Tipstaff-Simmons; Kitty-Mrs Martyr; Lady Flourish-Mrs Litchfield; Miss Hartley-Mrs Atkins.
Cast
Role: Lady Flourish Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: The Volcano

53
18 January 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Joanna

Afterpiece Title: The Prisoner at Large

Performance Comment: Muns-Fawcett; Jack Connor-Betterton; Lord Edmond-Mansel; Father Frank-Waddy; Dowdle-Munden; Rachael-Miss Sims; Mary-Mrs Litchfield; Adelaide-Miss Chapman.
Cast
Role: Mary Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Song: Chorusses, as18000116, but Miss Leserve

54
24 April 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Performance Comment: Rostrum-Lewis; Nicholas-Emery; Egerton-Holman; Greville-Pope; Undermine-Munden; April-Fawcett; Plethora-Knight; Valet-Klanert; Coachman-Thompson; Cook-Rees; Butler-Abbot; Sally Downright-Mrs Mattocks; Rose Sydney-Mrs Litchfield; Mrs Greville-Mrs Pope.
Cast
Role: Rose Sydney Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: Lock and Key

55
07 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Busy Body

Performance Comment: Marplot-Lewis; Sir George Airy-Holman; Charles Gripe-Whitfield; Whisper-Farley; Sir Jealous Traffic-Thompson; William-Abbot; Sir Francis Gripe-Munden; Isabinda-Mrs Litchfield; Patch-Mrs Mattocks; Scentwell-Miss Cox; Miranda-Mrs Glover.
Cast
Role: Isabinda Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Mimic

56
12 June 1800 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lie Of The Day

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Performance Comment: Sir Charles Racket-Lewis; Woodly-Claremont; Lovelace-Farley; Drugget-Quick; Dimity-Mrs Litchfield; Mrs Drugget-Mrs Davenport; Nancy (with a song)-Miss Sims; Lady Racket-Mrs Jordan [of dl].of dl].
Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: Paul and Virginia

Song: In Course Evening: The Storm-Incledon

Entertainment: Monologue End II: personal address to the Audience in a Poetical Composition-O'Keeffe (written by Himself for the Occasion); End: Imitations-Rees

57
17 May 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. [Mrs Litchfield is identified in Thespian Dictionary, 1805; as Miss Hay she had acted at cg on 27 May 1796.] 2nd piece [1st time; MF 1, by John O'Keeffe. MS not in Larpent MS; not published]: Altered [by the author] from Sprigs of Laurel. True Briton, 1 May: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 16, Clement's-Inn. Receipts: #418 8s. 6d. (122.8.6; 9.19.6; tickets: 286.0.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Performance Comment: Sir Robert Ramble-Macready (1st appearance in that character); Irwin-Pope; Lord Norland-Murray; Harmony-Munden; Placid (1st time)-Farley; Hammond-Powel; Edward (for that night only)-A Young Lady (2nd appearance on this stage [Mrs Litchfield]); Solus-Quick; Mrs Placid-Mrs Mattocks; Miss Woburn-Miss Chapman; Miss Spinster-Mrs Davenport; Lady Eleanor Irwin-Miss Wallis.

Afterpiece Title: The Rival Soldiers

Afterpiece Title: The Positive Man

Song: In the course of the Evening: The Life of Poor Jack (composed by Dibdin), Admiral Benbow-Incledon; Honesty in Tatters-Townsend; Arthur O'Bradley (1st time, written by O'Keeffe)-Munden

58
12 June 1797 @ Covent Garden

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Davenport, Powel, Thompson & Sloper. [For Mrs Litchfield see 17 May.] Receipts: #291 10s. (46.6; 9.17; tickets: 235.7, of which Mrs Davenport sold 55.4, Powel #37.16, Thompson 26.12, Sloper 115.15)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: As17970227, but Julia-A Lady (3rd appearance on this stage [Mrs Litchfield]).Mrs Litchfield]).

Afterpiece Title: The Waterman

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Oberon

Song: 2nd piece: with additional songs-

59
30 March 1787 @ Red-Lion Inn, Lordship Road, Stoke Newington

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beaux Stratagem; Or, Humours Of The Litchfield Landlord

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd; or, An Old Man Taught Wisdom

Song: As17870326

60
28 October 1799 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: The Death of Captain Cook

Song: Vocal Parts, as17990930, but _Dyke, Whitmore, added: Ms +Litchfield, Ms +Mills, Ms +Dibdin, _Incledon

61
18 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory; or, The Defeat of the Dutch Fleet by the Gallant Admiral Duncan on the Memorable Eleventh of October

Dance: In Scene V 3rd piece: a Triple Hornpipe-Blurton, Mrs Watts, Mlle St.Amand

62
20 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Orphan

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Dance: As17971018

63
23 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Dance: As17971018

64
24 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Dance: End II : Les Delassemens Militaires, as17971021; End 2nd piece: Peggy's Love, as17971021

65
26 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

66
28 October 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Dance: In 2nd piece: Ballet, as17971013

67
01 November 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Henry The Fourth, First Part

Afterpiece Title: The Highland Reel

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

68
04 November 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Wives As They Were, And Maids As They Are

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Dance: End II: Les Delassemens Militaires, as17971021; End: Cupid and Psyche (composed by Noverre)-Mrs Wild, Mme Rose, Mme Hilligsberg, Didelot, Fialon, The Graces by Mlle St.Amand, Mme D'Egville, Mlle Philips

69
09 November 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merry Wives Of Windsor

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Dance: In 2nd piece: Ballet, as17971013; In V 3rd piece: a Triple Hornpipe, as17971018

70
05 December 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Castle Of Andalusia

Cast
Role: Catalina Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower

71
23 December 1797 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Get Married

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: Fringe Actor: Mrs Litchfield

72
31 January 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way Of The World

Afterpiece Title: Three Weeks after Marriage

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

73
10 February 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Afterpiece Title: The Agreeable Surprise

Cast
Role: Fringe Actor: Mrs Litchfield

74
17 March 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Ghost

Cast
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Litchfield.

Afterpiece Title: He's Much to Blame

Afterpiece Title: A Devil of a Lover

75
12 April 1798 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Raft

Afterpiece Title: Rule a Wife and Have a Wife

Cast
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Return

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