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 %
08 May 1751 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Virgin Unmasked, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Louvre, Minuet No No Yes £200 N/A N/A
23 Sep 1751 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Damon and Phillida No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Feb 1752 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Apr 1752 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1752 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Don Quixote, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Louvre, Scotch Dance, The Minuet No No Yes £140 N/A N/A
09 Oct 1752 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The What Dye Call It Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Dec 1752 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Genii No No No £180 N/A N/A
02 Feb 1753 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Sorcerer, Il Pastore No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 May 1753 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Mock Doctor, Drunken Peasant, Two Pierrots No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 Oct 1753 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Ranger No No No £120 100% N/A
31 Oct 1753 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
11 Dec 1753 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Devil to Pay, L'Entree de Flore, Hornpipe, New Dutch Dance No No Yes £30 N/A N/A
05 Feb 1754 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Englishman in Paris, Hornpipe Yes No Yes £210 N/A N/A
13 Feb 1754 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Knights No No No £70 N/A N/A
04 May 1754 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Double Disappointment, Minuet, Italian Peasants, Louvre No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Sep 1754 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Lying Valet No No No £100 100% N/A
28 Sep 1754 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Englishman in Paris No No No £120 100% N/A
17 Oct 1754 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Englishman in Paris Yes No No £100 N/A N/A
05 Dec 1754 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Genii No No No £150 N/A N/A
13 Dec 1754 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The What Dye Call It Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
03 Feb 1755 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Apr 1755 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Miss in Her Teens, Hooly and Fairly, Hornpipe, Louvre, Minuet No No Yes £104 N/A N/A
13 Sep 1755 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Anatomist No No No £109 100% N/A
13 Nov 1755 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Skeleton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Dec 1755 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The School Boy, Les Peasants Gallant, Fingalian Dance Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Feb 1756 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Englishman Returnd from Paris No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Apr 1756 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Englishman Returnd from Paris, Les Paisans Gallants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Apr 1756 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Lady Moore or The Dragoness, The Villagers, Italian Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 May 1756 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Oracle, Hornpipe No No Yes £150 N/A N/A
07 Dec 1756 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Lottery No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Dec 1756 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Mercury Harlequin No No No £210 N/A N/A
26 Apr 1757 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke, Hornpipe, Fingalian Revels, Louvre, Minuet, Old Scotch Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1757 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The King and Miller, Comic Dance, Hornpipe No No Yes £200 N/A N/A
08 Oct 1757 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Mercury Harlequin No No No £80 53% N/A
02 Nov 1757 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke No No No £58 19s 25% N/A
16 May 1758 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Oracle, Hornpipe No No Yes £140 N/A N/A
03 Oct 1758 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Anatomist No No No £174 3s 6d 100% N/A
05 Oct 1758 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Queen Mab No No No £151 6s 100% N/A
27 Nov 1758 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Mercury Harlequin Yes No No £153 5s 6d N/A N/A
12 Feb 1759 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Fortunatus No No No £150 4s 6d 52% N/A
28 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke, Fingalian Dance, The Threshers No No Yes £177 14s 13% N/A
15 May 1759 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Tom Thumb, The German Hunters, Minuet, New Dutch Dance, The Louvre No No Yes £180 N/A N/A
22 Sep 1759 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Intriguing Chambermaid No No No £120 100% N/A
21 May 1760 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin's Invasion No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1761 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Miss in Her Teens, The Cries of London, Hornpipe, Minuet, New Comic Dance, The Painter in Love, The Provincial Sailors No No Yes £198 6s N/A N/A
02 Nov 1761 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Fair No No No £105 16s N/A N/A
09 Mar 1762 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Apollo and Daphne No No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1762 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Damon and Phillida, The Cossacks, The Pleasures of Spring No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Contrivances, The Swedish Gardeners, The Pedlar Tricked No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Nov 1762 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Sorcerer No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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