Oroonoko (1695)

Author
Thomas Southerne
Author
John Hawkesworth (1759)
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
£12,548 2s £6,046 18s 6d (48.2%) £6,501 3s 6d (51.8%)
1732 - 1809
£12,548 2s - (100%) £6,046 18s 6d (48.2%) £6,501 3s 6d (51.8%)
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 %
09 Nov 1785 Covent Garden Oroonoko, The Poor Soldier, The Wapping Landlady No No No £184 5s 59% N/A
03 Dec 1785 Covent Garden Oroonoko, The Poor Soldier No No No £117 17s 31% N/A
30 May 1786 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Poor Vulcan, Rural Merriment No No Yes £278 1s 6d 10% N/A
24 Mar 1788 Covent Garden Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave, Omai or A Trip round the World No No No £256 17s 6d 62% N/A
31 Oct 1789 Drury Lane Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave, The Humourist No No No £120 1s 6d 33% N/A
28 May 1790 Drury Lane Oroonoko, The Doctor and the Apothecary, The Elopement; or, Marriage a la Mode, The Greenwich Pensioner, Poor Jack No No Yes £195 15s 16% N/A
30 May 1792 Covent Garden Oroonoko Or The Royal Slave, The Irishman in London, Negro Dance, If You Travel the Wide World All Over, Jeu D'Esprit; or, Jerry Sneak's Intended Law Suit with the Major, My Little Pig Lays Without any Straw, The Group of Lovers; Or, Beauty At Her Levee No No Yes £326 6s 25% N/A
21 Dec 1795 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Merry Sherwood or Harlequin Forester No No No £321 19s 58% N/A
28 Dec 1795 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Merry Sherwood No No No £287 48% N/A
22 Mar 1806 Covent Garden Oroonoko; or, The Royal Slave, We Fly By Night No No No £319 18s 6d 57% N/A
07 Apr 1806 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Harlequin's Magnet No No No £268 5s 41% N/A
02 Mar 1807 Covent Garden Oroonoko, Mother Goose No No No £309 8s 6d 52% N/A
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