Event Comment: Rich's Company.
Lady Morley attended this per
formance.
Hotson,
Commonwealth and Restoration Stage, p. 377: Lady Morley and one in the Box at
Plott and noe Plott 8s. [There is no certainty that this per
formance is the premiere; since the play was advertised in the
Post Man, 25-27 May 1697, the first per
formance may have been late April or very early May.] Preface, Edition of 1697: As
for the Spectators, tho, by reason of the advanc'd Season, and the extremity of the heat, which when the Play was first acted was intolerable, we have not had such numerous assemblies as might have been expected in Winter; yet as long as I have known the Play-house I never saw the Company there in better humour.
A Comparison Between the Two Stages (1702), pp. 18-19:
Ramble: Oh, that's
Dennis's; and a very regular Farce, tho' he calls it a Comedy.
Sullen: I think it did pretty well; 'tis laboriously Writ, as everything of his is: There's an Air of
Formality in the Play agreeable to the slovenly Air in his Behaviour
Performances
Mainpiece Title: A Plot And No Plot
Performance Comment: Edition of 1697: Prologue-Joe Hains; Bull Sr-Dogget; Bull Jr-Cibber; Belvil-Harland; Baldernoe-Penkethman; Rumour-Hains; Macfleet-Lee; A very young Beau-Miss Allison; Sylvia-Mrs Rogers; Frowzy-Bullock; Friskit-Mrs Kent; Epilogue-Miss Allison who acted the Beau.