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 %
10 Apr 1740 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Virgin Unmasked, L'Arlequine a deux Visages, Hungarian Dance, La Jalouzie, La Tambourine, Pierots No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1740 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Damon and Phillida, Ballet, Grecian Sailors, Je ne scay quoy No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
29 May 1740 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Mock Doctor, Pierots, The Life of a Belle, Water Music, Le Tambourine No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Sep 1740 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Devil to Pay No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Nov 1740 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The What Dye Call it No Yes No £161 8s N/A N/A
08 Nov 1740 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Dragon of Wantley No No No £130 16s 6d N/A N/A
10 Nov 1740 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Honest Yorkshireman Yes No No £96 6s N/A N/A
11 Nov 1740 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Tanner of York No No No £73 2s 6d N/A N/A
19 Nov 1740 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The School Boy, Comic Ballet, Drunken Peasant, Le Bergeres, Wooden Shoe No No Yes £120 19s N/A N/A
30 Dec 1740 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Tyrolean Dance between Hungarian and Two Tyrolese, Italian Peasants No No No £82 2s 6d N/A N/A
14 Feb 1741 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, New Tambourine, Les Savoyards, Louvre, Minuet No Yes Yes £240 1s N/A N/A
10 Apr 1741 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Bacchus Triumphant, The Swiss, Trio of True Happiness No No Yes £147 14s N/A N/A
11 May 1741 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The King and the Miller of Mansfield, Pierots, Les Matelotes No No Yes £100 N/A N/A
08 Sep 1741 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Virgin Unmasked No No No £105 100% N/A
21 Sep 1741 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Tanner of York No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Oct 1741 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Le Genereux Corsaire Yes No No £100 N/A N/A
05 Dec 1741 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Shipwrecked, The Early Horn, Dutch Dance, Happy Pair, The Italian Peasants Yes No No £100 N/A N/A
15 Dec 1741 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Bright Author Of My Present Flame, Le Boufon, Les Jardiniers Suedois Yes No No £60 N/A N/A
16 Dec 1741 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, What D'ye Call It, Scotch Dance, Comic Dance, Le Matelot No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Jan 1742 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Rape of Proserpine No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Feb 1742 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Shipwrecked, Happy Pair, The French Peasants, The Swiss Yes No No £62 N/A N/A
08 Feb 1742 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Le Boufon, Les Jardiniers Suedois No Yes No £160 N/A N/A
01 Mar 1742 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, See from the Silent Groves, Les Egyptiens, Les Satires Puny, The Early Horn Yes No No £100 N/A N/A
30 Mar 1742 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Peasants, Chacone, Louvre, Minuet, Rigadone Provencale Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Apr 1742 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Cooper Outwitted or Harlequin Happy, Bumper Squire Jones, Le Boufon, The Drunken Peasant, The Early Horn No No Yes £170 N/A N/A
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