The Orphan; or, The Unhappy Marriage (1680)

Author
Thomas Otway
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Tragedy
Performance Medium
Spoken Drama
Associated work receipts The physical apparatus employed on and around the stage to support, enhance and sometimes substitute the performers' enactment of drama.
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
£22,719 18s 9d £10,758 10s 3d (47.4%) £11,961 8s 6d (52.6%)
1732 - 1809
£22,719 18s 9d - (100%) £10,758 10s 3d (47.4%) £11,961 8s 6d (52.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
233 109 124
1732 - 1809
233 109 124
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
04 Feb 1785 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, The Magic Cavern No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Feb 1785 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Blacksmith of Antwerp No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Feb 1785 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Magic Cavern No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Feb 1785 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Critic or A Tragedy Rehears'd No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Dec 1785 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, Rosina No No No £249 5s 64% N/A
06 Dec 1785 Covent Garden The Orphan, Poor Vulcan No No No £211 2s 6d 57% N/A
15 Dec 1785 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Fool, Leap Year No No No £222 1s 6d N/A N/A
13 Jan 1786 Covent Garden The Orphan, Omai No No No £281 17s 53% N/A
19 Jan 1786 Covent Garden The Orphan, Omai No No No £274 3s 50% N/A
26 Jan 1786 Covent Garden The Orphan, Omai No No No £232 15s 51% N/A
09 Feb 1786 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Country Wife No No No £147 14s 41% N/A
02 Mar 1786 Covent Garden The Orphan, Rosina, The Piping Pedlar No No No £143 14s 40% N/A
27 Apr 1786 Covent Garden The Orphan, Love in a Camp No No No £127 37% N/A
02 Oct 1786 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Romp, The Piping Pedlar No No No £195 6s 100% N/A
27 Jan 1787 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Man Milliner No No No £219 6s 6d 55% N/A
07 Feb 1787 Drury Lane The Orphan, Harlequin's Invasion No No No £141 14s 6d 40% N/A
22 May 1787 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Midnight Hour No No No £74 5s 70% N/A
27 Oct 1788 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, The Farmer No No No £182 17s 45% N/A
27 Oct 1790 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, The Provocation No No No £210 3s 44% N/A
05 Nov 1790 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Fugitive No No No £174 13s 54% N/A
09 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Orphan, A Divertisement No No No £177 17s 6d 49% N/A
28 Oct 1791 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, Oscar and Malvina No No No £218 8s 100% N/A
21 Jan 1793 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, Harlequin's Museum, Burlesque Pas des Russe, Hornpipe No No No £334 8s 6d 62% N/A
13 Oct 1797 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, A Divertisement, Ballet No No No £254 6s 6d 100% N/A
20 Oct 1797 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Maid of the Mill, Englands Glory, Triple Hornpipe No No No £259 17s 100% N/A
10 Nov 1797 Covent Garden The Orphan, Hartford Bridge No No No £153 3s 34% N/A
26 Dec 1797 Covent Garden The Orphan, Harlequin and Quixotte or The Magic Arm No No No £314 15s 51% N/A
09 Apr 1798 Covent Garden The Raft, The Orphan, Harlequin's Return No No No £195 9s 38% N/A
29 May 1798 Covent Garden The Orphan, Reformed in Time No No Yes £460 3s 3d 12% N/A
01 Oct 1798 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, The Follies of a Day No No No £246 14s 100% N/A
09 Oct 1799 Covent Garden The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, The Naval Pillar, Solemn Dirge, A Bundle of Proverbs, An Hungry Fox One Day Did Spy, Black Ey'd Susan, Britons, Your Country's Gratitude Behold, In Praise of the Tars Who Have Leathered the Word, Mr Speaker Tho' 'Tis Late, Sir Sydney Smith, The Embarkation, The Navy and Army of Britain Forever, We Come, Ye Guardians of Our Isle, When a Tar Returns Home, When Britain First Her Flag Upreared, When Peace Smiles Around No No No £335 9s 6d 100% N/A
19 Apr 1802 Drury Lane The Orphan, Harlequin Amulet No No No £199 5s 6d 38% N/A
19 Jan 1803 Drury Lane The Orphan, Love and Magic No No No £183 7s 42% N/A
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