Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Powell. "If we make allowances for embarrassment
and imperfect study, the performance of Mrs Powell was by no means indifferent" (
Monthly Mirror, May 1796, p. 50). Afterpiece: Not acted these 4 years.
Morning Herald, 2 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 22,
Henrietta-street,
Covent-Garden. Receipts: #466 11s. 6d. (189.3.6; 53.1.6; 4.14.6; tickets: 216.15.0) (charge: #212)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Hamlet
Performance Comment: As17960429, but Hamlet (for this night only)-Mrs Powell; Osric-R. Palmer; Ghost of Hamlet's father (for that night only)-Palmer; Gertrude-Miss Morris (of cg); Ophelia's Air by Linley-_.Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day
Performance Comment: Count Almaviva-Bannister Jun.; Figaro-R. Palmer; Antonio-Wewitzer; Bazil-Phillimore; Page-Mrs Bland; Countess-Mrs Goodall; Agnes-Mrs Heard; Susan-Miss Farren.