SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Davies"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Davies")') 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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We found 4286 matches on Event Comments, 3188 matches on Performance Comments, 552 matches on Performance Title, 33 matches on Roles/Actors, and 18 matches on Author.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: Hawthorn-Vernon; Justice Woodcock-Parsons; Young Meadows-Dodd; Sir William Meadows-Aickin; Eustace (1st time)-Lamash; Hodge-Davies; Margery-Mrs Wrighten; Deborah Woodcock-Mrs Love; Lucinda (1st time)-Miss Collett; Rosetta-Miss Walpole (1st appearance on the English stage).
Cast
Role: Hodge Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Dance: I: Country Dance (incident to the [main]piece)-; This was danced in both performances.] End II: [New Ballet, Demi-Caractere (composed by Gallet), Rural Grace-Gallet, Henry, Miss Armstrong, Mlle Dupre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Rosencraus Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Cast
Role: Rosencraus Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Song: IV: the original song To thee oh gentle sleep-Miss Abrams

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Performance Comment: Velasquez-Smith; Almada-Aickin; Ribiro-Palmer; Mendoza (1st time)-Farren; Lemos-Chaplin; Corea-Hurst; Roderic-Wright; Mello-R. Palmer; Pizarro-Davies; Ramirez-Packer; Antonio-Wrighten; Ferdinand-Griffiths; Duke of Braganza-Brereton (1st appearance in that character); Ines-Mrs Johnston; Dutchess of Braganza-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Pizarro Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Jenny Diver Actor: Mrs Davies

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Dance: End II: New Dance-Henry, Miss Armstrong

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Scandal

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Tempest

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Dance: IV: Rural Grace, as17771002

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Hastings

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Dance: As17771009

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fathers

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The First Part Of King Henry Iv

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin's Invasion

Cast
Role: Mercury Actor: Davies
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mr Davies
Role: Sukey Chitterlin Actor: Mrs Davies

Dance: End II: The Coopers, as17781211

Event Comment: This play was wrote by Mr Moor but as he had some Enemies, came out under ye Name of Mr Spence--went off well, except some few Words & a Song wch are since omitted--Mr Havard not being able to play the part design'd for him The following advertisement was put at ye Bottom of ye Bills for he first 2 Days: N.B. The Managers being engag'd to act two New Plays this Winter, cou'd not longer defer this Tragedy in waiting for Mr Havard's Recovery; Mr Davies at a very short Warning, has willingly undertaken the Character which Mr Havard was to have acted, and humbly hopes for the Indulgence of the Public (Cross). [This N.B. note from the Cross Diary is printed verbatim on the playbill]. Never Acted before. Tis hoped no Gentlemen will desire to be admitted behind the Scenes, this night. Receipts: #217 (Cross)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Performance Comment: Beverly-Garrick; Stukely-Davies; Lewson-Mossop; Jarvis-Berry; Mrs Beverly-Mrs Pritchard; Charlotte-Miss Haughton; Bates-Burton; Dawson-Blakes; Waiter-Ackman; Lucy-Mrs Price.
Cast
Role: Stukely Actor: Davies
Event Comment: Benefit Davies, Bookseller (General Advertiser). Tickets to be had of Mr Cummins, Bookseller, under the Royal Exchange; at the Horn Tavern in Fleet St.; at Mr Waller's, Bookseller, over against Fetter Lane End; The Temple Exchange Coffee-House; at Lebeck's Head in the Strand; and at Mr Davies in Old Round Court in the Strand

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Venice Preserved

Performance Comment: As17451014, but Pierre-Davies; Duke-_; Officer-_; Eliot-_; Spinoza-_; Theodore-_.
Cast
Role: Pierre Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmask'd

Song: Beard

Dance: Cooke, Sga Campioni

Event Comment: Benefit for Mr Davies and Mrs Love. Tickets deliver'd by Norris taken. Receipts: #143 5s. 6d. Charges: #74 14s. Profits to Davies and Mrs Love: #68 11s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Fathers

Performance Comment: Lionel-Vernon; Sir John Flowerdale-Aickin; Col. Oldboy-Parsons; Jessamy-Dodd; Jenkins-Bannister; Diana-Mrs Wrighten; Lady Oldboy-Mrs Bradshaw; Jenny-Mrs Davies; Clarissa-Mrs Smith; Harman-Davies.
Cast
Role: Jenny Actor: Mrs Davies
Role: Harman Actor: Davies.

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Entertainment: End Act II: Hippisley's Drunken Man-Weston

Dance: End: The Mountaineers, as17730930

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Anthony

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mr Turbulent; Or, The Melanchollicks

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Music: Mr Abell; having had the Honour lately, to Sing to the Nobility and Gentry of Richmond and the Neighbouring Towns, thinks himself bound in Gratitude...to return his most Humble Thanks with a Performance of New Musick, in English, Latin, Italian, French-Mr Abell; &c....being Honour'd and Accompany'd-the Greatest Masters of Europe

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Concert

Afterpiece Title: Britain's Happiness

Song: Singing in Italian and English-Mrs Tofts

Dance: l'Abbe, duRuel, Cherrier, Mrs Elford, Mrs Campion, Mrs Mayers, Devonshire Girl

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mad Tom Of Bedlam; Or, The Distress'd Lovers: With The Comical Humours Of squire Numscul

Song: Mr Corse, age 12

Dance: DDutch Skipper-Sandham; Drunken Man-Wilcox; (On 8 Aug. and there after:) Mad Dance, Pierrot-Le Sieur Labisle, from France

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: A New Dance call'd The Hunters-Mas. Clinton, Miss Street, Miss Ford; II: The Faggot Binders-Aldridge, Miss Baker; End Opera: A Dance-Grimaldi, Lauchery, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Sheep Shearers, as17640308 II: The Shepherdesses, as17640113; End Opera: Dance, as17640301

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sir Courtly Nice

Afterpiece Title: La Guinquette; or, Harlequin Turned Tapster

Dance: An Entertainment of Mimick Dancing, call'd, La Caprice-Harlequin (in Imitation of Mlle Provost, the Famous Dancer in the Opera at Paris)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Connoisseur; Or, Every Man In His Folly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: I: The Hunters, as17640224; The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Shepherd

Dance: II: The Faggot Binders, as17640224; End Opera: A Dance, as17640224