The Recruiting Officer (1706)

Author
George Farquhar
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£19,939 17s 6d £10,529 7s (52.8%) £9,410 10s 6d (47.2%)
1732 - 1809
£19,939 17s 6d - (100%) £10,529 7s (52.8%) £9,410 10s 6d (47.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
225 123 102
1732 - 1809
225 123 102
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
22 Dec 1762 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Contrivances, Pleasures of Spring, The Jealous Woodcutter No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Feb 1763 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
14 May 1763 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Miller of Mansfield, The Jealous Woodcutter No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Sep 1763 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Citizen No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Nov 1763 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
13 Jan 1764 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Rites of Hecate, The Shepherdesses or La Faux a Veugle No No No £217 7s N/A N/A
20 Jan 1764 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Rites of Hecate No No No £122 5s N/A N/A
27 Jan 1764 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Perseus and Andromeda and the Arcadian Nuptials No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1764 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Englishman in Paris, The Cudgelled Husband, Hornpipe, New Tambourine Dance, The Dutch Skippers No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Oct 1764 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke, La Femme Maitresse, Les Mattelots Provencals No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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