Event Comment: Benefit for
Mrs Cibber. Afterpiece: A Dramatic piece of one act taken from
the French. Never perform'd before.
The characters in it to be newdress'd. Pit and boxes laid toge
ther and amphi
theatre on stage. Tickets deliver'd for 3 March will be taken. [See, 20 March.
The note in
Have at you all; or, The Drury Lane Journal (19 March) seems to comment on this performance: Those heroic full-bottomed perukes, whose bushy expanse is spread over
the whole back of
the wearer, have lately been exploded on
the stage, and a more natural, I mean a less enormous covering for
the head substituted in its stead. Unfortunately
Mr Barry this night chose to appear in one of
the most curiously frizzled out and of
the fullest tragical flow I ever saw: When in
the last act it was our heroes turn to be kill'd, honest
Ryan being eager to dispatch him, just as he was to plump down upon
the carpet, entangled his hand in
the vast profusion of
Macbeth's hair; and by jerking back his sword after
the concluding stab, away came poor periwig along with it, while our hero was left expos'd, in
the last agonies of death-bare headed. Ryan in
the meanwhile with some confuconfusion contemplated Full-Bottom, which he held dangling in his hand, but sadly tumbled out of curl; at length he good naturedly adjusted it on
the bald pate of
the tyrant, who was
then enabled to make his dying speech with proper regularity and decorum."