Event Comment: Benefit for Miss Farren

Event Comment: [3rd piece 1st acted at dl, 5 Apr. 1779, as The Contract; or, The Female Captain. Prologue by James Cobb (Public Advertiser, 19 Sept. 1780).] Tickets delivered by Kenny and Painter will be admitted

Event Comment: Boxes 5s. Pit 3s. 1st Gallery 2s. Upper Gallery 1s. No Persons admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money returned after the Curtain is drawn up. Places for the Boxes to be taken of Brandon (only) at the Stage-Door. The Doors to be opened at 5:30. To begin exactly at 6:30 [see 23 Oct.]. Receipts: #144 1s. 6d. (142.0.6; 2.1.0)

Event Comment: In Act I of mainpiece the Banquetv; In Act IV the Procession from the Abbeyv at the Coronation of Anne Bullenv; To conclude with the Ceremonial of a Royal Christeningv. The Music and a Chorus composed by Shield. Receipts: #180 6s. 6d. (179.2.6; 1.4.0)

Event Comment: [Mrs Yates's 1st appearance as Portia was at this theatre, 27 Mar. 1770. On this present night Moody acted in the mainpiece at dl and in the afterpiece at cg.] Receipts: #246 4s. (244.17.6; 1.16.6)

Event Comment: [Mainpiece: Prologue by Nicholas Rowe.] Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Henry Knapp. Larpent MS 535; not published. Author of Prologue unknown]. The audience indulged "in the usual scornful hissing of theatrical displeasure. The Second act [of the afterpiece]...was not suffered to proceed to its conclusion; and the actors, when it was not more than half gone through, were driven from the stage by the clamours of almost all the spectators" (London Chronicle, 6 Nov.). Receipts: #192 5s. (188.14.6; 3.10.6)

Event Comment: "Henderson's Iago was perhaps the crown of all his serious achievements. It was all profoundly intellectual like the character. Any thing near this, I have never seen...The most perplexing difficulty in the [character] is to turn the inside of design outward to the spectators, and yet externally seem to be cordial and sincere and interesting among the victims-it demands an instant versatility, that yet must not savour of trick. You must hear his insinuations with curses, and yet confess that you also would have been deceived. Other Iagos were to be seen through at once...Though a studious man, there was no discipline apparent in the art of Henderson; he moved and looked as humour or passion required...[He] cared little about the measure of the line; he would not consider the fame of the versifier while the heart was to be struck' (Boaden, Siddons, II, 28-29, 49). Receipts: #149 18s. (146.9; 3.9)

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 4 years [not acted since 30 Oct. 1771]. Afterpiece [1st time; F 2, by Edward Topham. Prologue by Miles Peter Andrews (Public Advertiser, 7 Dec.). Larpent MS 539; not published]. Receipts: #207 11s. 6d. (158.18.0; 48.12.6; 0.1.0)