Event Comment: Mainpiece: Not acted these 20 years [not acted since 29 Apr. 1774]. "In the scene where
Varanes kills himself,
Kemble...was peculiarly striking. His manner of sheathing the sword in his body, after he has exclaimed, 'I feel the art'ry where the life-blood lies! It heaves against the point!-Now-Oh ye gods!' astonished us; and we turned, with horror, from the sight" (
Monthly Visitor, Feb. 1797, p. 161). "I asked [
Mrs Siddons] in which part she would most wish me to see her? She named
Portia in the
Merchant of Venice; but I begged to be excused...Mrs Siddons'
s warmest devotes do not hold her above a demigoddess in comedy. I have chosen
Athenais;...her scorn is admirable" (
Walpole [15 Jan. 1788], XIV, 42). Receipts: #231 9s. (175.2; 54.14; 1.13)
Performances
Mainpiece Title: Theodosius; Or, The Force Of Love
Afterpiece Title: Robinson Crusoe
Song: Mainpiece: Vocal Parts-Dignum, Sedgwick, Cooke, Wentworth, Maddocks, Welsh, Grimaldi, Evans, J. Fisher, Gregson, Tett, Mrs Butler, Mrs Maddocks, Mrs Granger, Mrs Roffey, Mrs Gawdry, Mrs Benson, Mrs Menage