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Event Comment: [In 2nd piece the playbill retains Mrs Goodall, but she "being indisposed, her part was read by Miss Heard" (Thespian Magazine, Dec. 1793 , p.363).]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Half An Hour After Supper

Afterpiece Title: WIVES IN PLENTY

Performance Comment: As17931123, but Mrs Goodall's part read by Miss Heard .

Afterpiece Title: THE CHILDREN IN THE WOOD

Cast
Role: Winifred Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Josephine Actor: Mrs Bland.

Song: As17931123

Event Comment: [Mainpiece in place of THE DUENNA; afterpiece of THE IRISH MAN IN LONDON, both advertised on playbill of 13 Dec. In mainpiece "Mrs Follett was the Lucinda of the third act, in the room of Mrs Mountain, who was suddenly taken ill towards the close of the second" (Public Advertiser, 16 Dec.).) Receipts: #230 6s. (225/9/6; 4/16/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love In A Village

Performance Comment: As17931121, but Hawthorn (1st time)-Townsend//Lucinda (for 3rd act only)-Mrs Follett .

Afterpiece Title: THE PRISONER AT LARGE

Dance: As17931102

Event Comment: On account of the Indisposition of Parsons, HEIGHO FOR A HUSBAND! [advertised on playbill of 6 Jan.] is obliged to be postponed till Saturday next. [In 1st piece the playbill retains Mrs Bland, but she "being indisposed her part in The Mariners was given to Miss De Camp" (Thespian Magazine, Jan. 1794, p. 30). It is not stated who took Miss De Camp's place.]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Mariners

Performance Comment: As17931130, but Miss De Camp in place of Mrs Bland .

Afterpiece Title: WAYS AND MEANS

Cast
Role: Mrs Caddy Actor: Mrs Booth.
Role: Winifred Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Josephine Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: HARLEQUIN PEASANT

Event Comment: Powell: [In mainpiece] Jones the Doctor, Packer [retained in playbill] ill. The Jew rehearsed at 10 (for Bannister Jun.; Mrs Hopkins ill); Siege of Belgrade at 12 . Receipts: #461 15s. 6d. (390/0/0; 69/18/6; 1/5/0; tickets not come in: 0/12/0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Macbeth

Afterpiece Title: NO SONG NO SUPPER

Performance Comment: As17940426, but Louisa-Miss Leak; Mrs Bramwell's name listed in playbill . Mrs Bramwell's name listed in playbill .
Cast
Role: Servant Actor: WebbDorothy-Mrs Bland
Role: WebbDorothy Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Nelly Actor: Mrs Bramwell

Song: As17940428

Event Comment: Paid for Beer for the Men removing Music Books #2 19s. 6d. [In mainpiece the playbill assigns First Constantia to Mrs Powell, but she "having sprain'd her Ancle [sic] Miss Collins play'd 1st Constantia" (Powell)]. Powell: Chances rehearsed at 10 (Barrymore absent; Caulfield, Cooke, Welsh each two scenes; Trueman one scene). Receipts: #139 6s. 6d. (78/10/6; 57/16/6; 2/19/6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Performance Comment: Don John-Palmer; Frederick-Barrymore; Duke-Whitfield; Petruchio-Benson; Antonio-Waldron; Peter-Burton; Anthony-Trueman; Surgeon-Jones//First Constantia-Miss Collins; Mother-Mrs Hopkins; Kinswoman-Miss Heard; Landlady-Mrs Booth; Nurse-Miss Tidswell; Second Constantia-Miss Farren .
Cast
Role: Mother Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Booth
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbs. 3rd piece [1st time; M. ENT 2, by James Roberts]: End of Act I A Grand View of the British Fleet and the French Prizes entering Portsmouth, and an appropriate Procession. The Piece to conclude with a representation of the Town, &c. of Portsmouth, as illuminated on the glorious occasion. With a Transparency of Earl Howe. [These were included in all subsequent performances.] The selected Musick by Mornington, Handel, Dr Arne, Boyce, Pleyel, &c. A Naval Overture, and the new Musick, by Dr Arnold. The Scenery by Rooker. Books of the Songs to be had at the Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 24 Oct. 1794: This Day is published RULE BRITANNIA! (1s.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Heigho For A Husband

Afterpiece Title: MISS IN HER TEENS

Performance Comment: Fribble (for that night only)-Suett; Capt. Loveit-C. Kemble; Puff-Benson; Jasper-Bland; Capt. Flash-Palmer//Tag-Mrs Harlowe; Miss Biddy-Mrs Gibbs (Their 1st appearance in those characters) .
Cast
Role: Flash Actor: PalmerTag-Mrs Harlowe
Role: PalmerTag Actor: Mrs Harlowe
Role: Miss Biddy Actor: Mrs Gibbs

Afterpiece Title: RULE BRITANNIA

Performance Comment: Characters by Johnstone, Suett, C. Kemble, Sedgwick, Fawcett//Mrs Hopkins, Miss De Camp, Miss Leak. [Cast from text (Hookham and Carpenter, 1794): Captain Anchor-Johnstone [in text: Davies (see17940825)]; Sir Tremor Hectic-Suett; Mons. Barleduc-C. Kemble; Sailor-Sedgwick; Thomas-Fawcett//Lady Hectic-Mrs Hopkins; Anna-Miss De Camp; Sophia-Miss Leak.] hathi. hathi.
Event Comment: [The playbill assigns Jessica to Mrs Bland, but "Jessica Miss Collins. Miss Bland Ill, Leonardo [omitted from playbill] Evans, Cooke Ill" (Powell).] Powell: Edwy and Elgiva rehearsed at 11. Receipts: #285 7s. 6d. (236.16.6; 43.14.6; 4.16.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Performance Comment: Duke of Venice-Packer; Antonio-Bensley; Bassanio-Wroughton; Solanio-Whitfield; Salarino-Barrymore; Gratiano-Dodd; Lorenzo-Dignum; Shylock-Kemble; Tubal-Waldron; Launcelot-Bannister Jun.; Gobbo-Suett; Leonardo-Evans; Portia-Mrs Siddons; Nerissa-Mrs Goodall; Jessica-Miss Collins.
Cast
Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Siddons
Role: Nerissa Actor: Mrs Goodall

Afterpiece Title: Alexander the Great

Event Comment: Benefit for Munden. [Mrs Townsend was from the Norwich theatre.] 3rd piece: Never [previously] acted at this Theatre. Morning Chronicle, 22 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Munden, No. 12, Frith-street, Soho. Receipts: #388 7s. (111.9.6; 6.12.0; tickets: 270.5.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Love Makes A Man; Or, The Fop's Fortune

Performance Comment: Clodio-Lewis; Don Louis-Munden; Sancho-Bernard; Governor-Davies; Don Duart-Macready; Anthonio-Thompson; Charino-Powel; Carlos-Holman; Louisa-Mrs Fawcett; Elvira-Miss Chapman; Angelina-Mrs Townsend (1st appearance on this stage).
Cast
Role: Louisa Actor: Mrs Fawcett
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Townsend

Afterpiece Title: The Sailor's Prize

Cast
Role: Sally Actor: Mrs Martyr.
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Fawcett
Role: Mrs Drugget Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Lady Racket Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Afterpiece Title: Who's the Dupe

Performance Comment: Old Doiley (1st time)-Munden; Granger-Bernard; Sandford-Macready; Gradus-Fawcett; Miss Doiley-Miss Chapman; Charlotte-Mrs Martyr.
Cast
Role: Charlotte Actor: Mrs Martyr.

Dance: As17950501

Song: In course: The Storm-Incledon; Admiral Benbow-Incledon; Four and Twenty Fidlers-Munden; In 2nd piece: Battle Song, as17950501; Let us love and let us drink, as17950501; Teddy O'Shaughnessey's History, as17950501; Now landed from the Ocean, as17950501

Event Comment: Tickets delivered for this Evening [Account-Book: by Cooke, Evans, Jones, Kelly Jun.,Maddocks, Webb, Rhodes, Whitmell, Pilsbury, W. Banks, Chippendale, Humphries, Beaufort, Miss Butler, Miss Beaufort, Mrs and Miss Smith] will be admitted. Receipts: #83 1s. (47.16.0; 20.6.6; 14.18.6; tickets: none listed)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heiress

Performance Comment: As17940920, but Chignon-Maddocks; Lady Emily-Miss Farren; Mrs Sagely-_; Tiffany-_.
Cast
Role: Mrs Blandish Actor: Miss Collins
Role: Mrs Sagely Actor: Mrs Booth

Afterpiece Title: My Grandmother

Event Comment: Benefit for Townsend and Follett. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1, author unknown]: The Music entirely new, composed by Reeve. Morning Chronicle, 11 June: Tickets to be had of Townsend, No. 153, Drury-lane; of Jack Follett, at Mrs Chapman's, No. 46, Drury-lane. Receipts: #436 19s. (93.17.6; 4.6.0 Tickets: 338.15.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Woodman

Performance Comment: As17950428, but Sir Walter Waring (1st time)-Munden; Emily (1st time)-Mrs Mountain; added to Medley: With a new song by Shield-; Bridget-Mrs Watts.
Cast
Role: Emily Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Bridget Actor: Mrs Watts.
Role: Dolly Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Miss Di Clacket Actor: Mrs Davenport

Afterpiece Title: The Frolics of an Hour

Performance Comment: Characters by Munden, Haymes, Burton, Townsend, Mrs Davenport, Miss Cornelys. [Cast from text (Minerva Press, 1795): Sir Robert Race-Munden [in text: Powel]; Bob Spanker-Haymes; Thomas-Burton; Lieutenant William Easy-Townsend; Lady Brilliant-Mrs Davenport; Lucy-Miss Cornelys.
Cast
Role: Lady Brilliant Actor: Mrs Davenport

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin and Faustus

Cast
Role: Annette Actor: Mrs Mountain.

Song: In the course of the EveningOld Towler-Incledon

Entertainment: In the course of the Performances: Imitations of the principal Performers of both Theatres-Townsend

Event Comment: Oracle, 2 Feb.: Mrs Siddons wore a dress "wholly composed of white muslin, with a zone of jewels." Account-Book:Paid Barratt, Sperm Oil and Candles to 25th Inst. #125 5s. Receipts: #302 19s. 6d. (296.9.6; 6.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Distress'd Mother

Performance Comment: Pyrrhus-Palmer; Phoenix-Packer; Orestes-Whitfield; Pylades-Barrymore; Andromache-Mrs Powell; Hermione-Mrs Siddons; Cephisa-Miss Tidswell; Cleone-Miss Mellon.
Cast
Role: Andromache Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Hermione Actor: Mrs Siddons
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Mattocks. Oracle, 25 Mar.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Mattocks, No. 8, Great Russell-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #296 1s. (156.18.6; 14.15.0; tickets: 124.7.6)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: A Divertisement

Entertainment: MonologueAfter dancing: Belles! Have at ye All-Mrs Mattocks

Performance Comment: Have at ye All-Mrs Mattocks.
Cast
Role: ave at ye All Actor: Mrs Mattocks.

Ballet: End: Dermot and Kathlane; or, The Irish Wedding (composed by Byrn). Dermot-Byrn; Darby-Jackson; Patrick-Holland; Father Luke-Platt; Norah-Mlle St.Amand; Old Kathlane-Miss Smyth; Kathlane (only time [i.e. appearance] this season)-Mme Rossi. [And see17931018.

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons, and the Last Night of her Engagement [see 6 and 16 May]. Mainpiece: Never acted here [1st acted at Bath, 1 Jan. 1788, as Such Things Were. Prologue by Richard Graves (Public Advertiser, 28 Jan. 1788)]. Oracle, 18 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #590 14s. (292.16.0; 51.13.0; 4.10.0; tickets: 235.6.6; odd money: 6.8.6) (charge: #213 17s. 4d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Julia; Or, Such Things Were

Performance Comment: Duke of Monmouth-C. Kemble; General Kirk-Caulfield; Edward Clifford-Kemble; Dudley-Wroughton; Montague-Whitfield; Allan-Aickin; Ferguson-Wentworth; Officers-Trueman, Webb; Julia-Mrs Siddons; Prologue-C. Kemble.
Cast
Role: Julia Actor: Mrs Siddons

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Jordan.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbs. Afterpiece: Not acted these 6 years

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Provoked Wife

Performance Comment: Sir John Brute-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Constant-Palmer Jun.; Heartfree-C. Kemble; Colonel Bully (with a song)-Davies; Lord Rake-Trueman; Justice-Waldron; Taylor-Suett; Constable-Caulfield; Watchmen-Ledger, Waldron Jun.; Porter-Abbot; Servants-Lyons, Chippendale; Razor-R. Palmer; Lady Brute-Mrs Kemble; Lady Fanciful-Miss DeCamp; Mademoiselle-Miss Heard; Belinda-Mrs Gibbs (Their 1st appearance in those characters).
Cast
Role: Lady Brute Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Gibbs

Afterpiece Title: The Follies of a Day

Performance Comment: Count Almaviva-Palmer; Figaro-R. Palmer; Basil-Trueman; Servant-Lyons; Page-Mrs Bland; Antonio-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Countess-Miss DeCamp (1st appearance in that character); Agnes-Miss Logan; Susan-Mrs Gibbs (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Page Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Susan Actor: Mrs Gibbs
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Kemble. 2nd piece [1st time; M. INT 1]. 3rd piece: Not acted these 2 years. Morning Herald, 20 Aug.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Kemble, No. 11, Haymarket

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Young Quaker

Cast
Role: Sally Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: An Harmonic Pasticcio

Performance Comment: Scene I The Sailor's Journal (composed by Dibdin)-Miss Leak; Scene II Sweet Little Taffine-Mrs Bland; Scene III The Barber's Petition, with a song in Character, Wigs, including His Own Wig, The Lover's Wig, The Counsellor's Wig, The Doctor's Wig, A Man's Wig who will be in the 1s. Gallery,-Fawcett; conclude: Imitations-Caulfield.

Afterpiece Title: A Mogul Tale

Performance Comment: Johnny Atkins-Bannister Jun. (1st appearance in that character); Dr Pedant (1st time)-Wathen; Omar (1st time)-Trueman; The Mogul-C. Kemble; Irene-Miss DeCamp; Sheba (1st time)-Miss Logan; Zapphira-Miss Heard; Fanny-Mrs Kemble.
Cast
Role: Fanny Actor: Mrs Kemble.
Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 12 years [not acted since 4 Nov. 1780]. "Mrs Siddons's manner of receiving the death ofMoneses, and the struggle that ended in her own, was one of the best efforts of the art we ever beheld. This effort, however, was too much for her powers; for after her fall, her groans were so audible that the curtain was properly dropped [in the middle of Act V], and it was some moments before she could be removed from the stage. [The curtain was raised again, and] on the conclusion of the tragedy the audience would not suffer the farce to begin until Whitfield came forward, and assured them that she was perfectly recovered" (True Briton, 4 Feb.). Receipts: #257 13s. 6d. (181.18.0; 73.5.6; 2.10.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tamerlane

Performance Comment: Bajazet-Kemble; Tamerlane-Palmer; Axalla-Campbell; Moneses-Barrymore; Stratocles-Trueman; Prince of Tanais-Holland; Omar-Caulfield; Mirvan-Wentworth; Zama-Cooke; Haly-Maddocks; Dervise-Denman; Arpasia-Mrs Siddons; Selima-Mrs Powell.
Cast
Role: Arpasia Actor: Mrs Siddons
Role: Selima Actor: Mrs Powell.

Afterpiece Title: The Prize

Ballet: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Powell. Lodoiska [advertised on playbill of 24 May] is obliged to be deferred on account of the Indisposition of Suett. True Briton, 16 May: Tickets to be had of Mrs Powell, No. 22, Henrietta-street, Covent-Garden. Receipts: #287 2s. 6d. (91.14.6; 49.7.6; 2.3.6; tickets: 143.17.0) (charge: #220 0s. 8d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Hamlet

Performance Comment: As17961031, but Hamlet (by Particular Desire, and positively for that Night only)-Mrs Powell; Polonius-Dowton; Gertrude-Miss Morris (of cg, by permission); Bernardo-_; Francisco-_.
Cast
Role: Hamlet Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Ophelia Actor: Mrs Jordan

Afterpiece Title: Richard Coeur de Lion

Cast
Role: Amanthis Actor: Mrs Jordan.
Role: Marchioness Merida Actor: Mrs Goodall
Event Comment: "It was with extreme regret that we perceived the ravages of time in the person of [Mrs Crawford, who had not acted in London since 12 Apr. 1785], tho' we were much consoled in observing that his influence is not equally apparent in her abilities...The blaze is gone, but there is a richness in the setting lustre...Kemble is evidently [Johnston's] model, and he followed him so closely, as even to the crossing of the legs in dying; so that where he was best, his efforts seemed to be the effect of imitation" (True Briton, 24 Oct.). "Mrs Crawford has had her day; but the sun of her genius has long sunk beneath the horizon...Many parts of her performance, we were sorry to observe, evinced the most evident decline of powers, and her tremulous accents, the debility of which was rendered the more striking from the want of several teeth, proclaimed that her days of play and action were nearly brought to a close...She was received with reiterated plaudits throughout...Nature has been very bountiful in supplying [Johnston] with a voice of much compass and melody, but he does not appear to have paid much attention to the cultivation of her favours. His transitions are often abrupt, and sometimes discordant; and the management of his tones is of so strange a nature that it appears more like two distinct voices than a judicious modulation of his natural accents" (Morning Herald, 24 Oct.). Receipts: #260 9s. (253.4.6; 7.4.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Douglas

Performance Comment: Douglas-Johnston (from the Theatre Royal Edinburgh; 1st appearance on this stage); Lord Randolph-Clarke; Glenalvon-Whitfield; Officer-Thompson; Old Norval-Murray; Anna-Miss Mansel; Lady Randolph-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Lady Randolph Actor: Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Maid of the Mill

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Follett
Role: Lady Sycamore Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Mountain.
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Gilbert
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington.
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield
Role: Mrs Drugget Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Lady Racket Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: England's Glory

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Follett
Role: Lady Sycamore Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Mountain.
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Gilbert
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington.
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield
Role: Mrs Drugget Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Lady Racket Actor: Mrs Abington.

Dance: As17971018

Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 11 years. III the Procession and Ceremony at the Tomb of Cresphontes. "Since Mrs Crawford's meridian another species of acting has arisen, that adds the graces of demeanour to the ebullitions of passion" (True Briton, 30 Nov.). Receipts: #175 5s. (164.19; 10.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Merope

Performance Comment: Dorilas-Johnston (1st appearance in that character); Poliphontes-Betterton; Narbas-Murray; Euricles-Whitfield; Erox-Clarke; High Priest-Davenport; Ismene-Mrs Litchfield; Merope-Mrs Crawford.
Cast
Role: Ismene Actor: Mrs Litchfield
Role: Merope Actor: Mrs Crawford.

Afterpiece Title: The Round Tower

Event Comment: [3rd piece in place of Harlequin's Return, advertised on playbill of 13 Apr. In it the playbill retains Mrs Mountain as Norah, but she "was taken ill & Mrs Iliff played Norah" (MS annotation on BM playbill, cg, Vol. X). Incledon renewed his engagement (see 14 Feb.), and acted on this night and regularly thereafter.] Receipts: #87 14s. 6d. (86.0.6; 1.14.0)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Secrets Worth Knowing

Cast
Role: Principal Pantomime Characters Actor: Bologna Jun., Bologna, Follett, Dyke, Hawtin,Blurton, Abbot, Wilde, Curties, Findlay, Cranfield, Parsloe, Davis, Master Blackmore, Mrs Parker, Mlle St.Amand, Mrs Follett, Mrs Norton, Miss Leserve, Mrs Henley
Role: Principal Vocal Characters Actor: Townsend, Linton,Simmons, Gray, Street, Rees, Smith, Tett, Oddwell, Thomas, Everett, Little, J. Linton, Mrs Clendining, Miss Sims, Miss Wheatley, Mrs Watts, Mrs Follett, Miss Walcup, Mrs Masters, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Bologna
Role: Colembine Actor: Mrs Parker
Role: Savoyard Girls Actor: Mlle St.Amand, Mrs Watts
Role: Goddess of Silence Actor: Mrs Follett
Role: Maritornes Actor: Mrs Henley. Commencing with the Representation of the Ruins of a Peruvian Temple, where an injured Inca and his Son had taken refuge from the malice of their Persecutors-the Inca in his retirement, making Magic his study, persuades his Son, from a happy presage, to attempt the re-obtainment of his right, by procuring the hand of his Oppressor's Daughter, who is a Spanish Grandee, and has betrothed her to the Knight Errant of La Mancha Don Quixotte-to prevent their union, he transforms his Son to +Harlequin, the Magic Arm appearing to guard him in the hour of Peril-they take leave, and he commences his career of adventure, by darting through the ruined Columns of the Temple, and re-appears near the Grandee's House in Grenada, where an interview takes place with the object of his choice, who elopes with him, and after experiencing a variety of Adventures in the Spanish Territories, seeking shelter in The Alhambrav, a Moorish Palace of great Antiquity, pursued by Don Quixotte, Sancho, the Grandee and Scaramouchillo, at length arrive in Old England

Afterpiece Title: The Poor Soldier

Performance Comment: As17970927, but Norah-Mrs Iliff.
Cast
Role: Norah Actor: Mrs Iliff.
Role: Kathlane Actor: Mrs Martyr
Event Comment: [This was Mrs Crawford's last appearance on the stage.] Receipts: #150 17s. (148.10; 2.7)

Performances

Afterpiece Title: Douglas

Cast
Role: Theodosia Actor: Mrs Follett
Role: Lady Sycamore Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Mountain.
Role: Altea Actor: Mrs Gilbert
Role: Clara Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Estifania Actor: Mrs Abington.
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Litchfield
Role: Mrs Drugget Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Lady Racket Actor: Mrs Abington.

Afterpiece Title: Robin Hood

Performance Comment: Robin Hood-Townsend; Little John-Quick; Ruttekin-Fawcett; Allen o'Dale-Gray; Bowman-Street; Fitzherbert-Powel; Scarlet-Farley; Edwin-Incledon; Clorinda-Mrs Martyr; Annette-Miss Sims; Angelina-Mrs Clendining.
Cast
Role: Clorinda Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Angelina Actor: Mrs Clendining.
Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Siddons. [Epilogue by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.] Times, 9 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Siddons, No. 49, Great Marlborough-street. Receipts: #508 8s. 6d. (296.10.0; 58.2.0; 3.12.0; tickets: 150.4.6) (charge: #212 3s. 6d.)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Stranger

Cast
Role: Mrs Haller Actor: Mrs Siddons
Role: Countess Wintersen Actor: Mrs Goodall
Role: Annette Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Jones

Afterpiece Title: The Devil to Pay

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Roffey
Role: Nell Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Entertainment: Monologue. End: the original Epilogue written for Semiramis-Mrs Siddons

Performance Comment: End: the original Epilogue written for Semiramis-Mrs Siddons.
Event Comment: By Desire of his Excellency the Turkish Ambassador [Ismail Ferrouh Effendi]. Benefit for Mrs Martyr. [In 1st piece the playbill retains Fawcett as Trudge, but "Munden, in the absence of Fawcett, sustained the part of Trudge in a manner that gave the audience no cause to regret the change" (Morning Herald, 10 May).] Times, 25 Apr.: Tickets to be had of Mrs Martyr, No. 16, Martlett-court, Bow-street. Receipts: #425 4s. (211.6.6; 14.10.0; tickets: 199.7.6)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Inkle And Yarico

Performance Comment: As17980418, but Sir Christopher Curry (1st time)-Murray; Trudge-Munden; Narcissa-Mrs Mountain.
Cast
Role: Narcissa Actor: Mrs Mountain.
Role: Wowski Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Patty Actor: Mrs Gibbs
Role: Yarico Actor: Mrs Pope

Afterpiece Title: Forecastle Fun

Afterpiece Title: The Honest Thieves

Cast
Role: Female Choristers Actor: Mrs Blurton
Role: Joan of Arc Actor: Mrs Parker
Role: Minstrel Actor: Mrs Clendining
Role: Blanche Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Ruth Actor: Mrs Knight
Role: Mrs Day Actor: Mrs Davenport.

Song: In I 1st piece: Duet, as17980418; In course Evening: Black Ey'd Susan, Admiral Benbow, Old Towler-Incledon; Four and Twenty Fidlers-Munden; a new Song, Yard Arm & Yard Arm (Being a description of the memorable Engagement between the French Ship L'Hercule and the British Ship the Mars [off the Bec du Raz, 21 Apr. 1798] commanded by the late gallant Captain Alexander Hood)-Townsend; In 2nd piece: With a Jolly full Bottle-; Favorite Comic Irish Song-Johnstone; The New Mariners, as17980508; Young William-Incledon; Hearts of Oak, Rule Britannia-Incledon, Chorus

Event Comment: Benefit for Mrs Gibbs. 3rd piece: By permission of the Proprietor of the Theatre-Royal Covent-Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Heir At Law

Afterpiece Title: Sylvester Daggerwood

Afterpiece Title: The Farmer

Performance Comment: Jemmy@Jumps-Munden; Valentine-Johnstone; Rundy-Trueman; Col. Dormant-Davenport; Farmer Blackberry-Bannister; Molly Maybush-Mrs Bland; Louisa-Miss Griffiths (1st appearance in that character); Betty Blackberry-Mrs Gibbs (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Molly Maybush Actor: Mrs Bland
Role: Betty Blackberry Actor: Mrs Gibbs
Event Comment: [Miss Brown is identified by MS annotation on Kemble playbill. "Notwithstanding the bills...[she acted] the summer before last, on the boards of the Richmond theatre" (Monthly Mirror, Nov. 1798, p. 308). In afterpiece the playbill retains Mrs Roffey as Nelly, but she "who usually performed the part of the Servant Maid, [was] suddenly taken ill; her substitute [was] Miss Tidswell" (Morning Herald, 12 Nov.).] Account-Book: Received of Hammersley & Co., lent to pay the Company #500; paid Lowndes, printer, #10; Chorus #6; Rablus, tallow candles, #10. Receipts: #203 12s. (126.3.6; 76.7.6; 1.1.0)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rivals

Performance Comment: Sir Anthony Absolute-Dowton; Captain Absolute-Powell; Faulkland-Kemble; Acres-Bannister Jun.; Sir Lucius O'Trigger-R. Palmer; Fag-Russell; David-Hollingsworth; Coachman-Maddocks; Servants-Fisher, Webb, Evans; Mrs Malaprop-Miss Pope; Lydia Languish-A Young Lady (1st appearance on any stage [Miss Brown]); Julia-Miss Biggs; Lucy-Miss Heard; Maid-Mrs Jones.
Cast
Role: Mrs Malaprop Actor: Miss Pope
Role: Maid Actor: Mrs Jones.

Afterpiece Title: No Song No Supper

Cast
Role: Dorothy Actor: Mrs Bland