8841

12 November 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: As You Like It

Performance Comment: Duke-Aickin; Frederick-Packer; Amiens-Dignum; Jaques-Palmer; Le Beu-Benson; Oliver-Whitfield; Jaques de Boys-C. Kemble; Orlando-Barrymore; Adam-Moody; Touchstone-King; Rosalind-Mrs Jordan; Celia-Mrs Kemble; Phebe-Miss DeCamp; Audrey-Miss Pope.

Cast

Role: Rosalind Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: Celia Actor: Mrs Kemble

Afterpiece Title: Lodoiska

Cast

Role: Captives Actor: Mrs _Boimaison, Miss Arne.
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Captives Actor: Miss Leak, Miss DeCamp, Miss Miller, Miss Mellon, Mrs Boimaison

Song: In V: a song-Mrs Bland

8842

04 December 1795 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great

Cast

Role: Sysigambis Actor: Mrs Hopkins
Role: Statira Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Roxana Actor: Mrs Siddons.

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Cast

Role: Dolce Actor: Mrs Jones.

Song: As17951123, but Grand Chorus of Priests Youths Virgins-_Cooke, _Danby, _Evans, _Fisher, Master _Welsh, Master _DeCamp, Master _Gregson, Miss _Chatterley, Miss _Wentworth, Mrs _Butler

8843

09 April 1796 @ Covent Garden

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Lad Of The Hills Or The Wicklow Gold Mine

Performance Comment: Principal Characters by Incledon, Johnstone, Fawcett, Bowden, Towsend, Richardson, Thompson, Mrs Martyr, Mrs Clendining, Mrs Mountain. Cast from Airs (T. N. Longman, 1796): Yemon-Incledon; Granaghan-Johnstone; Thady-Fawcett; Maunus-Bowden; Devereux-Townsend; Tinihinch-Richardson; Dross-Thompson; Phelim-Mrs Martyr; Jesse-Mrs Clendining; Shelah-Mrs Mountain; Irish Peasantry Defenders White Boys-Linton, Williamson, Street, Follett, Simmons, Spofforth, Blurton, Rees, Abbot, Holland, Wilde, Curties, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Watts, Miss Walcup, Mrs Follett, Miss E. Walcup, Mrs Masters, Mrs Norton, Mrs Lloyd, Miss Ives, Mrs Blurton, Mrs Crowe, Miss Smith.

Cast

Role: Phelim Actor: Mrs Martyr
Role: Jesse Actor: Mrs Clendining
Role: Shelah Actor: Mrs Mountain
Role: Irish Peasantry Defenders White Boys Actor: Linton, Williamson, Street, Follett, Simmons, Spofforth, Blurton, Rees, Abbot, Holland, Wilde, Curties, Mrs Castelle, Mrs Watts, Miss Walcup, Mrs Follett, Miss E. Walcup, Mrs Masters, Mrs Norton, Mrs Lloyd, Miss Ives, Mrs Blurton, Mrs Crowe, Miss Smith.

Afterpiece Title: Crotchet Lodge

Cast

Role: Miss Crotchet Actor: Mrs Davenport
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Platt
Role: Thisbe Actor: Mrs Martyr.

Dance: With a new Irish Ballet (composed by Byrn)Spinsters' Lottery-Byrn, Platt, Mrs Watts, Miss Smyth, Mlle St.Amand. [Announced in playbill, but "The dance advertised was changed to another, on account of the indisposition of one of the performers" (Morning Herald, 11 Apr.).

8844

09 June 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Belles Stratagem

Afterpiece Title: The Sultan

Cast

Role: Elmira Actor: Mrs Cuyler
Role: Roxalana Actor: Mrs Jordan
Role: In the dead of the night Actor: Mrs Jordan.

Song: End I: Whither my Love, Ah! Whither art thou fled? (from The Haunted Tower)-Sga Storace; From Shades of Night-Braham; This fond Sorrow-Braham, Sga Storace (both from Mahmoud); End II: the celebrated Harp Song Ah che nel petto io sento, from Idalide,-Mme Mara; In IV: a Masquerade Scene, in which Ally Croker-Miss Leak, Master Welsh

Entertainment: MonologueEnd: a new Occasional Address-Mrs Jordan

8845

30 August 1796 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School Of Shakespeare Or Humours And Passions

Performance Comment: Given in a regular representation of several of his most favourite and capital Scenes. With Scenery and Dresses suited to the Characters and their situations. The inimitable Scenes of the Poet, selected for the Purpose, and digested into Five Acts, will exemplify in the strongest colours of our immortal Bard, Cruelty, Vanity, Ambition, Rusticity, Tyranny-; [Act I. Cruelty, in The Merchant of Venice [IV. i]. Shylock-Palmer; Anthonio-Aickin; Bassanio-C. Kemble; Gratiano-R. Palmer; Portia-Mrs Kemble; [Act II. Vanity, in the First Part of Henry IV [parts of II. iv]. Sir John Falstaff-Fawcett; Prince of Wales-Palmer Jun.; Francis (for that night only)-Bannister Jun.; [Act III. Ambition, in King Henry the Eighth [parts of III. ii]. Cardinal Wolsey (1st time)-Palmer; King Henry-R. Palmer; [Act IV. Rusticity, in As You Like it [III. iii]. Touchstone-Bannister Jun.; Audrey-Mrs Harlowe; [Act V. Tyranny, in King Richard the Third [parts of I. ii; II. ii; and V]. King Richard (1st time)-Palmer; King Henry-Aickin; Richmond (1st time)-Palmer Jun.; Lady Anne-Miss Logan.

Cast

Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Kemble
Role: Audrey Actor: Mrs Harlowe

Afterpiece Title: The Hodge Podge or A Receipt to make a Benefit

Afterpiece Title: The Son in Law

Cast

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

Song: In 2nd piece: Mad Bess (in character)-Miss Leak; a Welch Song (in character)-Mrs Bland; The Waiter-Fawcett

Entertainment: In 2nd piece: Imitations-Caulfield

8846

19 November 1796 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Isabella

Cast

Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Siddons
Role: Nurse Actor: Mrs Booth.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Captive

Cast

Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Countrywomen Actor: Mrs Maddocks, Mrs Heard
Role: Cook Actor: Mrs Brooker
Role: Gipsies Actor: Garman, Evans, Mrs Butler, Mrs Mills, Miss Granger, Mrs Benson
Role: Chorus of Knights and Ladies Actor: Welsh, Wentworth, Cook, Atkins, Meyers, Caulfield Jun., Denman, Willoughby, Peck, Mrs Arne, Mrs Jackson, Miss Menage, Mrs Wentworth.

Song: III: Epithalamium-; Vocal Parts-Mrs Bland, Master Welsh

8847

12 January 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: The Shipwreck

Cast

Role: Sally Shamrock Actor: Mrs Bland.

Dance: In II: Masquerade-; Dance-Gentili, Mrs Wild

Song: In Masquerade: Stevens's Glee, Sigh no more Ladies-Dignum, Sedgwick Cooke, Master Welsh, Mrs Bland, Miss DeCamp

8848

23 January 1797 @ Haymarket Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Battle Of Eddington Or British Liberty

Performance Comment: Principal Characters-Egerton, Meredith, Morton, Master Sincock, Holmes, Evans, Brent, Wilkinson, Mrs Sincock, Mrs Sidney; [Partial cast adjusted from Morning Herald, 30 Mar. 1796: Alfred-Egerton; Ceoluph-Wilkinson; Elsitha-Mrs Sidney. Text (Emsley [et al], 1796) lists other parts: Mervin (Alfred's dependent, Prince of South Wales), Ethelred (General of the English), Danish Captain of Auxiliaries, Ceoluph's vassal, Edmund (Son and Heir of Alfred, then very young), Editha (An Old Woman inhabiting the Cottage).] Prologue-Wilkinson.

Cast

Role: Principal Characters Actor: Egerton, Meredith, Morton, Master Sincock, Holmes, Evans, Brent, Wilkinson, Mrs Sincock, Mrs Sidney
Role: Elsitha Actor: Mrs Sidney. Text

Afterpiece Title: Ways and Means

Performance Comment: Sir David Dunder-Baker; Young Random-Egerton; Scruple-Holmes; Old Random-Brent; Carney-Wilson; Paul Peery-Jones; Tiptoe-Meredith; Lady Dunder-Mrs Sincock; Harriet-Mrs Brent; Kitty-A Young Lady [unidentified].unidentified].

Cast

Role: Lady Dunder Actor: Mrs Sincock
Role: Harriet Actor: Mrs Brent

Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Denman, Walker, Willoughby, Master Willoughby, Master Woodham, Mrs Laver, A Young Lady [probably Miss Jones (see17970510)]

Entertainment: Monologue.End: The Picture of a Playhouse ; or, Bucks have at ye all-Meredith

8849

11 February 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Merchant Of Venice

Cast

Role: Portia Actor: Mrs Siddons
Role: Jessica Actor: Mrs Bland.

Afterpiece Title: A Friend in Need

Cast

Role: Emilia Actor: Mrs Crouch
Role: Ellen Actor: Mrs Bland.

Song: In afterpiece: As17970210 In III: a new Duett (composed by Shaw) [In vows of everlasting truth (BUC 942)]-Dignum, Mrs Bland; In afterpiece: As17970210

8850

23 March 1797 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Much Ado About Nothing

Afterpiece Title: Cape St

Cast

Role: Lady Helen Actor: Mrs Powell
Role: Winifred Actor: Mrs Booth
Role: Princess Lodoiska Actor: Mrs Crouch

Dance: II: Masquerade-; with a Dance, as17970112

Song: Sigh no more Ladies, as17970112, but Miss Leak, Miss +Granger, Master _Welsh, Mrs _Bland

Ballet: End: The Scotch Ghost. As17961221