SELECT * FROM london_stages WHERE MATCH('(@(authnameclean,authname,perftitleclean,commentcclean,commentpclean) "Mrs Cibber gave it up some days ago Cross"/1) | (@(roleclean,performerclean) "Mrs Cibber gave it up some days ago Cross")') 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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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Cast
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Moore.
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Bicknell.
Role: Brazen Actor: Cibber
Role: Sylvia Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Rogers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rule A Wife And Have A Wife

Cast
Role: Margaretta Actor: Mrs Barry
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Oldfield.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Old Batchelor

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Caius Marius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hydaspes

Related Works
Related Work: Harlequin Hydaspes: or, The Greshamite Author(s): Mrs. Aubert

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamester

Cast
Role: Lady Wealthy Actor: Mrs Kent
Role: Angelica Actor: Mrs Spillar
Role: Mrs Security Actor: Mrs Sapsford
Role: Mrs Favourite Actor: Mrs Pollet.

Afterpiece Title: The Walking Statue

Dance: Italian Night Scene between Scaramouch, Harlequin, Cooper, and Wife-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Pyrrhus And Demetrius

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Thyrsis Or The Lost Shepherdess

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Performances

Mainpiece Title: Rinaldo

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello Moor Of Venice

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jew Of Venice Or The Female Lawyer

Song: Between the Acts: With several Songs and Dialogues-Teno, Rainton, a Gentlewoman from London, who never perform'd there before; particularly that Celebrated Dialogue of Tell Me Why My Charming Fair by the late famous Mr Henry Purcell-; Mad Dialogue by him-; Also several Opera Songs with Instruments-

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Perplexd Lovers

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Feignd Innocence

Afterpiece Title: The Stage Coach

Cast
Role: Nicodemus Somebody Actor: Pack

Song: A Dialogue between a drunken Rake and a Town Miss-Pack, Rainton

Dance: The last new Morrice Dance-Prince, others

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julius Caesar

Event Comment: [Opening night, under the management of John Rich.] By the Company of Comedians under Letters Patents granted by King Charles the Second. Beginning exactly at Six. No Persons are to be admitted behind the Scenes, nor any Money to be return'd after the Curtain is drawn up. Receipts: #143. Weekly Packet, 18 Dec.: This Day the New Play-House...is to be open'd...by the Company that act under the Patent; tho' it is said, that some of the Gentlemen who have left the Theatre in Drury-Lane for that Service, are order'd to return to their Colours, upon Pain of not exercising their Lungs anywhere; which may in Time prove of ill Service to the Patentee; that has been at vast Expence to make his Theatre as convenient for the Reception of an Audience as any one can possibly be

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Sophonisba Or Hannibals Overthrow

Dance: As17170202

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Related Works
Related Work: Il Bajazet Author(s): Agostino Piovene

Afterpiece Title: The Loves of Mars and Venus

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cimbeline

Afterpiece Title: The Jealous Doctor

Song: Ray

Dance: As17171022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Artful Husband

Afterpiece Title: Amadis

Cast
Role: Colombine Actor: Mrs Schoolding

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Anatomist

Afterpiece Title: The Petticoat Plotter

Dance: As17171022

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Les Chinois Ou Arlequin Major Ridicule

Afterpiece Title: La Retour de la Foire

Entertainment:

Event Comment: At Common Prices. N.B. Part of the Company will continue to Act two Days in a Week during the Summer Session. Original Weekly Journal, 6 June: A Quarrel happening in Drury-Lane Play-House, betwixt a Gentleman and an Officer, they immediately drew their Swords, and the Latter was wounded in the Arm

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Don John Or The Libertine Destroyd

Related Works
Related Work: The Humours of Sir John Falstaff, Justice Shallow, and Ancient Pistol Author(s): Theophilus Cibber
Related Work: Papal Tyranny in the Reign of King John Author(s): Colley Cibber

Music: With the Original Shepherd's Musick by the late Henry Purcell-Birkhead, Bowman

Event Comment: Admission as 9 Dec. 1721. By Reason of the Length of the Days, the Hours for the Operas will be changed from Six to Seven a Clock, at which Time it will begin exactly

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Floridante

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Otho

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Mariamne