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SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mr Wrighten"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mr Wrighten")') 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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6159 results for: Keyword - Mr Wrighten
We found 4255 matches on Event Comments, 1837 matches on Performance Comments, 552 matches on Performance Title, 18 matches on Author, and 3 matches on Roles/Actors.

1601
28 December 1792 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Patron

1602
29 January 1793 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Every One Has His Fault

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

1603
15 September 1794 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens; Or, Drury-lane And Covent-garden

Afterpiece Title: The Suspicious Husband

Afterpiece Title: Sprigs of Laurel

1604
01 November 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The Election deferr'd. Mrs Wrighten ill. Receipts: #195 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: A Trip to Scotland

1605
12 January 1778 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The School for Fathers [announced on playbill of 10 Jan.] is obliged to be deferred till Wednesday next on account of Mrs Wrighten's Illness. Receipts: #151 7s. 6d. (125.13.0; 25.11.0; 0.3.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: Queen Mab

Song: As17780105

1606
29 March 1781 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Suppliants

Performance Comment: As17810217, but in Public Advertiser: Wrighten in place of Packer.

Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe

1607
16 March 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Braganza

Afterpiece Title: A Monody [on the Death of Garrick]

Performance Comment: Spoken by Mrs Yates. Principal Vocal Parts by Reinhold (of cg); Mrs Wrighten, Miss Wright, Miss Collett, &c .

Afterpiece Title: Comus

Cast
Role: Principal Bacchant Actor: Mrs Wrighten

1608
17 April 1782 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Player Actor: Wrighten
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Wrighten

Afterpiece Title: The True Briton

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Bannister, Suett, R. Palmer, Waldron, Lamash, Fawcett, Wrighten, Du-Bellamy; Mrs Love, Mrs Granger, Miss Wright. Cast not known . Mrs Love, Mrs Granger, Miss Wright. Cast not known .

Dance: In Act III of mainpiece a Hornpipe, as17820314mitations. End of mainpiece, by Bannister Jun

1609
19 August 1783 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Triumph Of Honour

Afterpiece Title: The Lawyer

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Palmer, Williamson, Wewitzer, R. Palmer, Egan; Mrs Inchbald, Mrs Lloyd, Miss Langrish, Mrs Bulkley. [Cast from European Magazine, Aug. 1783, p. 151: Hammond-Palmer; Charles Powys-Williamson; Carbon-Wewitzer; Simon-R. Palmer; Patrick-Egan; Emily-Mrs Inchbald; Fidget-Mrs Lloyd; Honoria-Miss Langrish; Belinda-Mrs Bulkley (misprinted Mrs Wrighten).] New Prologue [spoken by Williamson] and Epilogue [spoken by Mrs Bulkley] . New Prologue [spoken by Williamson] and Epilogue [spoken by Mrs Bulkley] .

Afterpiece Title: The Dead Alive

Afterpiece Title: Chrononhotonthologos

1610
24 April 1788 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Afterpiece Title: The Critic

Performance Comment: As17880419, but Principal Tragedians-Wrighten.
Cast
Role: Principal Tragedians Actor: Wrighten.

1611
25 April 1788 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rosina

Afterpiece Title: Barnaby Brittle

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Entertainment: End I, end 1st piece: those Dramatic Imitations-Mrs Wells [of which the Public have deigned to think so flatteringly; In the First Part: Traits of Tragic Comic and Vocal Characters-; The Second will conclude: a Scene from Two great Tragic Actresses of this Country-. [The First Part consisted of imitations of Mrs Siddons in the "ring" scene in IV.ii of Isabella; Mrs Wrighten singing Tally ho; Sga Sestini as Jessamy in Lionel and Clarissa; Mrs Abington in The Way to Keep Him; Mrs Martyr in Robin Hood. The Second concluded with Mrs Siddons and Mrs Crawford as Jane Shore and Alicia in Jane Shore (World, 26 Apr.). Public Advertiser, 26 Apr., states that she also imitated Mrs Crouch, Mrs Cargill and Mrs Pope. The imitations were preceded by an Introduction written by Miles Peter Andrews (World, 28 Apr.).

Performance Comment: [The First Part consisted of imitations of Mrs Siddons in the "ring" scene in IV.ii of Isabella; Mrs Wrighten singing Tally ho; Sga Sestini as Jessamy in Lionel and Clarissa; Mrs Abington in The Way to Keep Him; Mrs Martyr in Robin Hood. The Second concluded with Mrs Siddons and Mrs Crawford as Jane Shore and Alicia in Jane Shore (World, 26 Apr.). Public Advertiser, 26 Apr., states that she also imitated Mrs Crouch, Mrs Cargill and Mrs Pope. The imitations were preceded by an Introduction written by Miles Peter Andrews (World, 28 Apr.).]

1612
07 May 1792 @ Drury Lane at King's Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Author [of mainpiece, who is named in Kemble Mem., but not on the playbill]. Paid Wrighten, prompter, from beginning of season to 29th April #43 16s. 2d. Receipts: #350 8s. (308.19; 39.9; 2.0; tickets: none listed) (charge: #168 10s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Fugitive

Afterpiece Title: The Humourist

1613
22 January 1793 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid Wrighten, prompter, to 29th December, #30 19s. 2d. Receipts: #245 15s. 6d. (211.7.6; 31.6.0; 3.2.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: At King's The Pirates

Afterpiece Title: Katharine and Petruchio

1614
13 August 1793 @ Haymarket Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for the Orphan Daughters of the late Wrighten, prompter [who had died on 2 Apr. 1793]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Surrender Of Calais

Afterpiece Title: The Village Lawyer

Song: As17930720

1615
28 July 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mountaineers

Performance Comment: As17940721 but omitted: Moors, Muleteers, and Goatherds; from Peasants: Mrs Norton, Miss M. and C. Wrighten, Mrs Gaudry, Mrs Butler, Mrs Hale, Mrs Masters, Miss Menage .

Afterpiece Title: AULD ROBIN GRAY

1616
24 August 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet, Prince Of Denmark

1617
16 December 1661 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Cutter Of Coleman Street

1618
22 December 1663 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Henry Viii

1619
26 March 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Man's The Master

1620
08 December 1668 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tryphon

1621
28 December 1668 @ Whitehall or St. James's

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tryphon

1622
27 April 1682 @ Dorset Garden Theatre

Performances

1623
April 1684 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Disappointment; Or, The Mother In Fashion

1624
09 May 1685 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

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

1625
December 1690 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mistakes