Oroonoko (1695)

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
£10,560 10s £4,364 9s 6d (41.3%) £6,196 6d (58.7%)
1732 - 1809
£10,560 10s - (100%) £4,364 9s 6d (41.3%) £6,196 6d (58.7%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
137 67 70
1732 - 1809
137 67 70
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
02 Dec 1766 Drury Lane Oroonoko, Queen Mab Yes No No £115 9s 42% N/A
17 Apr 1769 Covent Garden Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave, The Oxonian in Town, The Garland No No Yes £232 9s 6d N/A N/A
24 Apr 1769 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Harlequin Dr Faustus, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £183 15s 6d N/A N/A
07 May 1770 Covent Garden Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave, The Rape of Proserpine, The Whim No No Yes £221 18s N/A N/A
23 Apr 1771 Covent Garden Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave, The Deuce Is in Him, New Comic Dance, Allemande, The Old ground Young No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 May 1771 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Midas, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Oct 1771 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Midas No No No £222 1s 100% N/A
21 Oct 1771 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Mother Shipton No No No £163 10s 45% N/A
20 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Oroonoko, The Padlock, The Corsican Sailor's Punch House No No Yes £251 16s 31% N/A
09 Jan 1772 Covent Garden Oroonoko, The Fairy Prince, Comic Dance No No No £187 6d 52% N/A