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Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Roman Father

Performance Comment: Roman Father-Holland; Tullus Hostilius-Burton; Valerius-Packer; Horatius-Yates; Publius Horatius-Powell; Valeria-Mrs Hopkins; Citizens-Ackman, Fox; Horatia-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Horatius Actor: Yates
Role: Horatia Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Fortunatus

Entertainment: I: King will By Desire repeat a Comic Paraphrase on the Seven Ages of Shakespeare-King; V: (The Last time this season) King will present the Audience with Bucks Have at Ye All, as17650330

Dance: II: The Medley, as17641120; III: A New Dance-Grimaldi, Miss Baker; IV: Hearts of Oak-Aldridge, Miss Baker

Performances

Mainpiece Title: All In The Wrong

Performance Comment: Sir John Restless-Yates; Sir Wm Belmont-Burton; Blandford-Bransby; Belmont-Packer; Robert-Parsons; Beverley-Holland; Lady Restless-Mrs Palmer; Clarissa-Miss Plym; Tippet-Mrs Hippisley; Tattle-Mrs Bradshaw; Belinda-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Sir John Restless Actor: Yates
Role: Belinda Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches; or, Harlequin Cherokee

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Holland; Sir Bashful-Yates; Sir Brilliant-Palmer; William-Baddeley; Sideboard-Ackman; Lady Constant-Mrs Hopkins; Muslin-Mrs Clive; Mignionet-Mrs Bradshaw; Widow Bellmour (with song in character)-Miss Pope; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Actor: Yates
Role: Mrs Lovemore Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Performance Comment: Parts by: Holland, Powell, Yates; King, Palmer, Love, Lee, Baddeley, Aickin, Strange, Miss Pope, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Abington, Miss Plym, Mrs Clive. Lord Ogleby-King; Sterling-Yates; Lovewell-Powell; Sir John Melvil-Holland; Canton-Baddeley; Brush-Palmer; Serjeant Flower-Love; Traverse-Lee; Trueman-Aikin; Mrs Heidelberg-Mrs Clive; Miss Sterling-Miss Pope; Fanny-Mrs Palmer; Chambermaid-Miss Plym; Betty-Mrs Abington; Crochet in the Epilogue-Mrs Abington; Strange; Prologue-Havard; Epilogue-Several; Trusty-Miss Mills (Winston MS 9).
Cast
Role: Sterling Actor: Yates
Event Comment: [The Public Advertiser this day contains a long letter from G. F. Theatricus extolling the virtues of Powell, Holland, Yates and Mrs Yates as actors capable of filling the shoes of Garrick and Mrs Cibber, especially with reference to their performance in the Clandestine Marriage, but calling attention also to their excellencies in other parts.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Clandestine Marriage

Cast
Role: Sterling Actor: Yates
Event Comment: Benefit for Yates

Performances

Afterpiece Title: The Witches

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Siege Of Damascus

Afterpiece Title: Neck or Nothing

Performance Comment: Parts by: Yates, Palmer, Hartry, Parsons, Packer, Mrs Bradshaw, Miss Plym, Miss Pope. Martin-Palmer; Slip-Yates; Stockwell-Hartry; Sir Harry Harlow-Parsons; Belford-Packer; Miss Nancy-Miss Plym; Mrs Stockwell-Mrs Bradshaw; Jenny-Miss Pope (MacMillan). Garrick's first casting (Larpent MS 260) suggests Stockwell-$Parsons; Harlowe-$Castle; Martin-$King. His initial title was A Narrow Escape.
Cast
Role: Slip Actor: Yates
Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. Rec'd stopages #1 8s.; from John Palmer in part of his bond #70; Paid 5 days salary list #367 13s. 4d. Receipts: #173 16s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book). Went to the 2 shilling Gallery to see the new tragedy, with its musical entertainment The Cunning Man, a sort of translation of Rousseau's Devin du Village. Holland, Powell and Bensley played Warwick, Edward and Pembroke very well. Mrs Yates did great justice to Queen Margaret. Mrs Palmer did Elizabeth. The Prologue was spoken by Bensley, the Epilogue by Mrs Yates. The characters were very richly dressed in the dresses of the time. The improper use of ridiculous modern dresses on the stage often offends me (Diary of Sylas Neville, unpublished MS portion)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Earl Of Warwick

Afterpiece Title: The Cunning Man

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Parts by: Powell, King, Havard, Burton, Baddeley, Yates, Miss Pope, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Hopkins, Mrs Abington. Prologue and an Interlude as an Epilogue. Freeport-Yates; Spatter-King; Lord Falbridge-Powell; Sir Wm. Douglas-Havard; La France-Baddeley; Owen-Burton; Officer-Strange; Lady Alton-Mrs Abington; Amelia-Mrs Palmer; Molly-Miss Pope; Mrs Goodman-Mrs Hopkins; Prologue-King; Interlude as Epilogue-(Edition of 1767).
Cast
Role: Freeport Actor: Yates

Dance: After Epilogue: The Vintage, as17661011

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Holland; Sir Bashful Constant-Yates; Sir Brilliant Fashion-Palmer; William-Baddeley; Widow Bellmour (with song in character)-Mrs Abington; Lady Constant-Mrs Hopkins; Muslin-Mrs Clive; Sideboard-Ackman; Mignionet-Mrs Bradshaw; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Constant Actor: Yates
Role: Mrs Lovemore Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Marriage a la Mode; or, Conjugal Douceurs

Dance: End: Hearts of Oak, as17670212

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson, West, Lings. House charges #84. [Deficit to actors #60 4s.] Received Mr Evans and Miss Roger's deficiency #28 18s. 6d. Paid Ann Collett for a gold brocaided silk #10 10s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #23 16s. (Treasurer's Book). Went into ye Pit...Vernon is an excellent MacHeath. I don't like Yates as Peachum so well as Shuter, and Parsons is not so good a Filch as Holborn. Bransby ye Lockit and Mrs Abington Lucy pretty well...Polly-$Mrs Vincent, who is now too old for ye character, and I think wants feeling...One Tomlinson, who had a 4th of the Benefit, spoke an Epilogue in the character of a Beggar, but by one party hissing and a greater clapping, could not hear it.--At Covent Garden a Hurdy-Gurdy man and girl play in the whore's scene, and as the Highwaymen march out, one returns and kisses MacHeath, and Shuter says some things Yates did not, but perhaps they are additions of his own (Neville MS Diary)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Cast
Role: Peachum Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Register Office

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Royal Merchant

Performance Comment: Parts by: Mattocks, Shuter, Bensley' Mahoon, Yates, Dunstall, Gardner, Davis, Cushing, Mrs Mattocks, and Mrs Pinto, Merchants, Boors, Beggars by the rest of the company. Harrol-Mattocks; Clause-Bensley; Wolfort-Gardner; Hubert-Mahoon; Hempskirke-Davis; Vandunk-Shuter; Prig, Frighted Boor-Yates; Higgen-Dunstall; Ferret-Quick; Gertrude-Mrs Mattocks; Jaquelin-Mrs Pinto (Genest, V, 188).
Cast
Role: Frighted Boor Actor: Yates

Dance: I: A New Comic Dance, as17671021; II: A Grand Ballet The Garland-Fishar, Mrs Bulkley. [See17651003.

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Powell; Iachimo-Smith; Pisanio-Hull; Philario-Morris; Cymbeline-Gibson; Cloten-Yates; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Bensley; Arviragus-Perry; Queen-Mrs Vincent; Imogen-Yates; In Act II a Masquerade Dance-incident to the Play; Singing-Mrs Thompson.
Cast
Role: Cloten Actor: Yates
Role: Imogen Actor: Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Oxonian in Town

Dance: III: The Dutch Milkmaid, as17671114; IV: The Female Archer, as17671029; End: The Irish Lilt, as17670921

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Leonatus-Powell; Iachimo-Smith; Pisanio-Hull; Cymbeline-Gibson; Cloten-Yates; Philario-Morris; Caius Lucius-Gardner; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Bensley; Arviragus-Perry; Queen-Mrs Vincent; Imogen-Mrs Yates; With a Masquerade Scene-incident to the Play and; Singing-Mrs Thompson.
Cast
Role: Cloten Actor: Yates
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Orpheus and Eurydice, with the Metamorphoses of Harlequin

Dance: III: [See17671009.] The Merry Sailors-Aldridge

Event Comment: Mainpiece: By Particular Desire. The Doors By Particular Desire will be opened at Five. The Play to begin exactly at Half an Hour after Six. Played for the King of Denmark. [The anecodote is recorded by Genest, V, 237, that the king fell asleep. Annoyed, Mrs Yates, playing Alicia, drew near his Box and with violent exertion of voice cried out in her part "O Thou False Lord!" The King aroused declared he would not be married to a woman with such a voice for the world. The London Evening Post, however, for 10 Oct. states, "Mrs Yates had the greatest honour done her, after playing Jane Shore, by the King of Denmark going to her and thanking her for the pleasure she had given him." (Winston MS 10).] Receipts: #157 9s. 6d. (Account Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Cast
Role: Jane Shore Actor: Mrs Yates.

Dance: End: The Irish Lilt, as17680930

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Smith; Sir Brilliant-Bensley, 1st time; William-Cushing; Sideboard-Holtom; Sir Bashful-Yates; Widow Belmour (with the original song)-Miss Macklin; Lady Constant-Mrs Dyer; Muslin-Mrs Green; Mignionet-Miss Pearce; Furnish-Miss Mills; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Actor: Yates
Role: Mrs Lovemore Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: Harlequin Dr Faustus

Dance: II: The Lamplighters, as17681101

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cyrus

Performance Comment: Parts by Powell, Clarke, Smith, Hull, Bensley, Mrs Lessingham, Mrs Yates. With a Prologue-; Epilogue-; Cyrus-Powell; Cambyses-Smith; Mithranes-Bensley; Astyages-Clarke; Harpagus-Hull; Mandane-Mrs Yates; Aspasia-Mrs Mattocks (1768 edn. The edn. lists Mirza-Davis, but Davis does not appear on the playbill, which lists Mrs Lessingham, though no part appears for her in the 1768 edn.). Mrs Lessingham played Aspasia according to the listing in Lloyd's Evening Post, 2 thru 5 Dec.
Cast
Role: Mandane Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Country Wife

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The English Merchant

Performance Comment: Freeport-Yates; Spatter-Woodward; Owen-Gibson; LaFrance-Quick; Falbridge-Bensley; Sir William Douglas-Hull; Mrs Goodman-Mrs Barrington; Molly-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Alton-Mrs Bellamy; Amelia-Mrs Yates, first time.
Cast
Role: Freeport Actor: Yates
Role: Amelia Actor: Mrs Yates, first time.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Performance Comment: Lovemore-Smith; Sir Brilliant-Bensley; William-Dyer; Sideboard-Holtom; Sir Bashful-Yates; Widow Belmore (with the original Song)-Miss Macklin; Lady Constant-Mrs Bulkley; Muslin-Mrs Green; Mrs Lovemore-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Sir Bashful Actor: Yates
Role: Mrs Lovemore Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: III: A New Dance call'd The Whim-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. [See17690427]

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-a Young Gentleman, first appearance any stage; Iachimo-Smith; Pisanio-Hull; Cymbeline-Gibson; Cloten-Yates; Philario-Morris; Caius Lucius-Gardner; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-Bensley; Arviragus-Perry; Queen-Mrs Vincent; Imogen-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Cloten Actor: Yates
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Upholsterer

Dance: III: The Whim, as17691123

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Timanthes

Performance Comment: Parts-Smith, Bensley, Clarke, Wroughton, Gardner, Davis, R. Smith, Mrs Bulkley, Mrs Yates. Prologue and Epilogue in Act III a Procession. The Vocal parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, Mrs DuBellamy, Baker, Fox. Timanthes-Smith; Demaphoon-Bensley; Mathusius-Clarke; Cherinthus-Wroughton; Adrastus-Gardner; Orcanes-Davis; Cephisa-Mrs Bulkley; Ismena-Mrs Yates; playbill matched with 1770 Edn. The 1770 Edn. includes Olinthus-;,a child but specifies no actor. Playbill includes R. Smith; but assigns no part. In Act III, a Procession-; the Vocal Parts-Reinhold, Mrs Baker, DuBellamy, Baker, Fox; Prologue-Bensley; Epilogue-Mrs Bulkley.

Afterpiece Title: Damon and Phillida

Entertainment: II: Concert on Hautboy-Simpson

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymbeline

Performance Comment: Posthumus-Bensley; Iachimo-Smith; Pisanio-Hull; Cloten-Yates; Cymbeline-Gibson; Bellarius-Clarke; Guiderius-DuBellamy; Arviragus-Perry; Queen-Mrs Vincent; Imogen-Mrs Yates; In Act II, a Masquerade Scene-incident to the play; Singing-Mrs Thompson.
Cast
Role: Cloten Actor: Yates
Role: Imogen Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: The Rape of Proserpine

Dance: III: A Comic Dance-Mr Hamois, Miss Hamois, as17701010

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Performance Comment: Duke-Bensley; Angelo-Clarke; Escalus-Hull; Claudio-Wroughton; Clown-Dunstall; Lucio-Yates (first time); Mariana-Mrs Bulkley; Isabella-Mrs Yates (first time); A Huntington Library News Clipping adds the following: Provost-Gardner; Friar Peter-R. Smith; Friar Thomas-Redman; Elbow-Quick; Barnadine-Stoppelaer; Julietta-Miss Ogilvie; Francisca-Miss Mills.
Cast
Role: Lucio Actor: Yates
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Yates

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Jealous Wife

Performance Comment: Oakly-Smith, first time; Major Oakly-Yates; Charles-Bensley; Lord Trinket-Dyer; Russet-Dunstall; Sir Harry-Quick; O'Cutter-Fox; Tom-R. Smith; Harriet-Mrs Mattocks; Lady Freelove-Mrs Green; Mrs Oakly-Mrs Yates, first time.
Cast
Role: Major Oakly Actor: Yates
Role: Mrs Oakly Actor: Mrs Yates, first time.

Afterpiece Title: Mother Shipton

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Measure For Measure

Performance Comment: Duke-Bensley; Angelo-Clarke; Escalus-Hull; Claudio-Wroughton; Clown-Dunstall; Provost-Gardner; Lucio-Yates; Mariana-Mrs Kniveton; Isabella-Mrs Yates.
Cast
Role: Lucio Actor: Yates
Role: Isabella Actor: Mrs Yates.

Afterpiece Title: The Commissary

Dance: IV: Comic Dance-Aldridge, Sga Manesiere. [See17710423.