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22309 results for: Keyword - Mrs Kent
We found 23352 matches on Performance Comments, 4248 matches on Event Comments, 4238 matches on Performance Title, 111 matches on Roles/Actors, and 9 matches on Author.

6376
06 March 1786 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Farren (1st appearance in that character); Gloster-Hull; Kent (1st time)-Aickin; Bastard-Palmer; Albany-Davies; Gentleman Usher-Wewitzer; Cornwall-Thompson; Burgundy-Cubitt; Edgar-Holman (1st appearance in that character); Regan-Mrs Inchbald; Goneril-Miss Platt; Arante-Miss Stuart; Cordelia-Miss Brunton (1st appearance in that character) .
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Aickin
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Inchbald

Afterpiece Title: Love in a Camp

Cast
Role: Flora Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Mabel Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Norah Actor: Mrs Bannister.

6377
19 January 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Pope; Bastard-Middleton; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Harley; Cornwall-Macready; Gentleman Usher-Bernard; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Fawcett; Goneril-Miss Morris; Cordelia-Miss Wallis (1st appearance in that character).
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Harley
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: Mago and Dago

Cast
Role: A new Roundelay Actor: Townsend, Street, Mrs Henley, Miss Kirton omitted from III: The Drift of Snow
Role: Vocal Characters Actor: Bernard, Gray, Street, Linton, Mrs Martyr
Role: Seraphil Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: The Magic Concerto Actor: the Phantom of Harlequin-the escape of Columbine. III. A Mountainous Snow Scenev. The Drift of Snow-the Preservation of Columbine, and the Re-animation of the frozen Harlequin. Song by Seraphil-Mrs Martyr
Role: the Phantom of Harlequin Actor: the escape of Columbine. III. A Mountainous Snow Scenev. The Drift of Snow-the Preservation of Columbine, and the Re-animation of the frozen Harlequin. Song by Seraphil-Mrs Martyr
Role: The Drift of Snow Actor: the Preservation of Columbine, and the Re-animation of the frozen Harlequin. Song by Seraphil-Mrs Martyr
Role: and the Re Actor: animation of the frozen Harlequin. Song by Seraphil-Mrs Martyr
Role: Song by Seraphil Actor: Mrs Martyr

6378
28 September 1795 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Pope; Bastard-Middleton; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Harley; Cornwall-Macready; Albany-Richardson; Gentleman Usher-Bernard; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Fawcett; Goneril-Miss Morris; Arante-Miss Leserve; Cordelia-Miss Wallis.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Harley
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Performance Comment: Belville-Johnstone; Captain Belville (with Old Towler, composed by Shield)-Incledon; William-Townsend; Rustic-Haymes; Irish Haymaker-Macready; Phoebe-Mrs Martyr; Docas-Mrs Davenport; Rosina-Mrs Clendining.
Cast
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Docas Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Clendining.

6379
10 October 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Pope; Bastard-Middleton; Gloster-Hull; Kent-Waddy; Cornwall-Macready; Albany-Toms; Gentleman Usher-Farley; Burgundy-Philipps; Cornwall's Servant-Thompson; Edgar-Holman; Regan-Mrs Fawcett; Goneril-Miss Morris; Cordelia-Miss Wallis.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Waddy
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Fawcett

Afterpiece Title: The Wicklow Mountains

Cast
Role: Helen Actor: Mrs Clendining
Role: Rosa Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Irish Peasantry Defenders and White Boys Actor: Linton, Street, Follett, Simmons, Spofforth, Blurton, Abbot, Wilde, Curties, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Watts, Miss Walcup, Mrs Follett, Miss E. Walcup, Mrs Masters, Mrs Norton, Mrs Lloyd, Mrs Blurton, Miss Owen, Miss Logan, Miss Leserve, Mrs Henley.

6380
28 December 1706 @ Queen's Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Recruiting Officer

Performance Comment: As17061118, but Kite-Fairbank; Appletree-Kent.
Cast
Role: Appletree Actor: Kent.
Role: Melinda Actor: Mrs Porter.
Role: Silvia Actor: Mrs Oldfield
Role: Rose Actor: Mrs Bignal.

6381
10 November 1711 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear

Performance Comment: Lear-Powell; Gloster-Cibber; Edgar-Wilks; Edmund-Mills; Gentleman Usher-Penkethman; Kent-Keene; Cordelia-Miss Sherborn.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Keene

6382
18 December 1714 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: As17141209 but Kent-Keene.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Keene.
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Santlow.

6383
20 November 1718 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: As17180925, but Albany-_; Cornwall-_; Kent-_.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Thurmond
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Santlow.

6384
30 December 1721 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: As17211007, but Kent-Williams.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Williams.
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Booth.

6385
20 December 1722 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The True And Ancient History Of King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: As17221103, but Kent-Leigh.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Leigh.
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Seymour.

6386
08 February 1732 @ Lincoln's Inn Fields

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: As17311006, but Kent-_.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Ogden
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Buchanan
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Templer
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Younger.

Afterpiece Title: The Necromancer

Cast
Role: Spirits Actor: Leveridge, Legar, Mrs Seedo
Role: Harlequin Man and Woman Actor: DuPre, Mrs Legar
Role: Pierrot Man and Woman Actor: Salle, Mrs Bullock
Role: Scaramouch Man and Woman Actor: Newhouse, Mrs Ogden
Role: Miller's Wife Actor: Mrs Legar.

6387
27 September 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And H1s Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Quin; Gloster-Mills; Edgar-Milward; Edmund-W. Mills; Kent-Berry; Gentleman Usher-Cibber; Cordelia-Miss Holliday .
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Mock Doctor

Performance Comment: Doctor-Cibber; Dorcas-Mrs Clive .
Cast
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Clive

6388
24 November 1735 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And H1s Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Quin; Gloster-Mills; Edgar-Milward; Edmund-W. Mills; Kent-Berry; Gentleman Usher-Cibber; Cordelia-Miss Holliday .
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Berry

Afterpiece Title: The Virgin Unmaskd

Cast
Role: Lucy Actor: Mrs Clive

6389
10 January 1737 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear And His Three Daughters

Performance Comment: Lear-Quin; Gloucester-Berry; Edgar-Milward; Edmund-W. Mills; Kent-Winstone; Gentleman Usher-Cibber; Cordelia-Miss Holyday.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Winstone

Afterpiece Title: The Fall of Phaeton

Cast
Role: Clymene Actor: Mrs Clive

6390
18 February 1754 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17531115, but Kent-Burton.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Burton.
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Bennet
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Cowper
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Cibber.

Afterpiece Title: A Duke and no Duke

6391
07 January 1765 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17641231, but Kent-Walker.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Walker.
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Bellamy.
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Vincent

Afterpiece Title: Thomasand Sally

Dance: IV: Blind Man's Buff, as17641003

6392
23 April 1766 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: As17660304 but Bastard-Gardner; Kent-Morris.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Morris.
Role: Goneril Actor: Mrs Stephens
Role: Regan Actor: Mrs Vincent
Role: Cordelia Actor: Mrs Bellamy.

Afterpiece Title: The Citizen

Cast
Role: Maria Actor: Mrs Mattocks

Dance: IV: The Venetian Gardeners, as17650925; End: Rural Love, as17651115

6393
28 September 1778 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Digges; Gloster-Hull; Bastard-Aickin; Kent-Clarke; Albany-L'Estrange; Cornwall-Thompson; Gentleman Usher-Brunsdon; Burgundy-Robson; Edgar-Lewis; Goneril (1st time)-Miss Platt; Regan-Miss Ambrose; Arante-Miss Green; Cordelia-Miss Younge (of dl).
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Poor Vulcan

Performance Comment: . Characters by Quick, Mattocks, Reinhold, Robson, Leoni, Mrs Morton, Miss Brown. Cast from text (G. Kearsly, 1778): Vulcan, Crump-Quick; Jupiter, Stud-Mattocks; Mars, Pike-Reinhold; Apollo, Wiseman-Robson; Adonis, Joe-Leoni; Grace-Miss Dayes [i.e. later Mrs Morton]; Venus, Maudlin-Miss Brown [all the characters, except Grace, are alternately Gods and mortals].all the characters, except Grace, are alternately Gods and mortals].

6394
19 November 1779 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Henderson; Gloster-Hull; Bastard-Aickin; Kent-Clarke; Albany-L'Estrange; Cornwall-Thompson; Gentleman Usher-Brunsdon; Burgundy-Robson; Edgar-Lewis; Goneril-Miss Platt; Regan-Miss Ambrose; Arante-Miss Green; Cordelia-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: William And Nanny

Cast
Role: Dame Hearty Actor: Mrs Webb
Role: Old Woman Actor: Mrs Pitt

6395
27 December 1780 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Henderson; Gloster-Hull; Bastard-Aickin; Kent-Clarke; Albany-L'Estrange; Cornwall-Thompson; Burgundy-Robson; Physician-Baker; Gentleman Usher-Berry; Edgar-Lewis; Goneril-Miss Platt; Regan-Miss Ambrose; Arante-Miss Stuart; Cordelia-Miss Younge.
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: St

Cast
Role: Bridget Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Lauretta Actor: Mrs Morton.

6396
01 January 1783 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Lear

Performance Comment: King Lear-Henderson; Gloster-Hull; Bastard-Aickin; Kent-Clarke; Albany-Davies; Cornwall-Thompson; Burgundy-Helme; Physician-Bates; Gentleman Usher-Wewitzer; Edgar-Lewis; Goneril-Miss Platt; Regan-Miss Cleland; Arante-Miss Stuart; Cordelia-Miss Younge .
Cast
Role: Kent Actor: Clarke

Afterpiece Title: Rosina

Cast
Role: William Actor: Mrs Kennedy
Role: Phoebe Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Dorcas Actor: Mrs Pitt
Role: Rosina Actor: Mrs Bannister

6397
22 May 1794 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Tancred And Sigismunda

Performance Comment: Tancred-Wilkinson; Osmond-Field; Rodolpho-Jones; Sitfredi-Wewitzer//Laura-Miss Herbert [thus Oracle; Morning Herald: Mrs Lawson]; Sigismunda-Miss Thomas(1st appearance) .

Afterpiece Title: THREE WEEKS AFTER MARRIAGE

Performance Comment: Sir Charles Racket-Wilkinson; Lovelace-Field; Woodley-Jones; Drugget-Wewitzer//Mrs Drugget-Mrs Thompson; Nancy-Mrs Jones [thus Oracle; Morning Herald: Mrs Lawson]; Dimity-Mrs Wewitzer [thus Oracle; Morning Herald: Miss Kent]; Lady Racket (1st time)-Miss Thomas .
Cast
Role: Drugget Actor: WewitzerMrs Drugget-Mrs Thompson
Role: WewitzerMrs Drugget Actor: Mrs Thompson
Role: Nancy Actor: Mrs Jones
Role: Dimity Actor: Mrs Wewitzer

Music: End of mainpiece Master Julien Baux, a Child under Six Years of Age, will perform a Concerto on the Violin by Viotti

Monologue: 1794 05 22 End of afterpiece an Occasional Address by Miss Thomas

6398
26 December 1677 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: The King's Company. This performance is known from a document in The Theatrical Inquisitor and Monthly Mirror, July 1816, p. 26, and in Fitzgerald, A New History, I, 145. This document lists the receipts and attendance: The King's box, #1 10s., possibly six persons; Mr Hayles' boxes, #2 16s., possibly 14 persons; Mr Mohun's boxes, #3 16s., possibly 19 persons; Mr Yate's boxes, #1 15s. 6d., possibly 9 persons; James' boxes, #2 4s., possibly 11 persons. Mr Kent's pit, 112 persons; and Mr Britan's pit, 79 persons; a total of 191 persons paying #23 17s. 6d. Mr Bracy's gallery, 100 persons; Mr Johnson's gallery, 44 persons; a total of 144 persons, paying #10 16s. Upper Gallery, 119 persons, paying #5 19s. Mrs Kempton (upper gallery?), 5s. The house rent is listed as #5 14s. The attendance appears to total at least 513 persons. Compare these data with those for 12 Dec. 1677

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Rival Queens Or Alexander The Great

6399
20 July 1695 @ Drury Lane Theatre and Lincoln's Inn Fields

Event Comment: For a list of the players in the two companies from a document in the Kent Archives Office, see Sybil Rosenfeld, Unpublished Stage Documents, Theatre Notebook, XI (1957), 94

Performances

6400
30 June 1703 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: At the Desire of several Persons of Quality. Mainpiece: Written by the Author of The Yeoman of Kent

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Humour Of The Age

Afterpiece Title: An Interlude of City Customs

Dance: DuRuel; Also an extraordinary comical entertainment, Scaramouch Harlequin and Punchinello-