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 %
28 Feb 1788 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Farmer, The Piping Pedlar No No No £189 6s 6d N/A N/A
27 Mar 1788 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Omai No No No £163 17s 6d 45% N/A
19 Sep 1788 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Poor Soldier No No No £200 3s 100% N/A
14 Nov 1788 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Marian No No No £172 13s 63% N/A
05 Jan 1789 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Aladin, A Sparring Match No No No £276 11s 68% N/A
09 Jun 1789 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Highland Reel, The Piping Pedlar No No Yes £146 7s 75% N/A
25 Feb 1790 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin's Chaplet No No No £182 5s 6d 42% N/A
29 May 1790 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Highland Reel No No Yes £349 15s 6d N/A N/A
08 Oct 1790 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Provocation No No No £213 10s 6d 100% N/A
27 Dec 1790 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Picture of Paris No No No £231 18s 6d 46% N/A
27 Apr 1791 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Don Juan No No Yes £264 19s 45% N/A
18 May 1791 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Court of Apollo, The Pannel No No Yes £100 16s 6d N/A N/A
10 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Wives Revenged, Tippoo Saib, Stand to Your Guns, Poor Orra Tink on Yanco Dear, The Gallant Soldier Born to Arms No No Yes £246 4s 100% N/A
08 Nov 1791 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Deserter No No No £179 12s 6d N/A N/A
14 Nov 1792 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Hartford Bridge No No No £286 1s 64% N/A
16 Nov 1792 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Hartford Bridge, The Lucky Escape No No No £250 13s 72% N/A
11 Apr 1793 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, True Blue, Comus, Hornpipe, Sweet Echo, Nor on Beds of Fading Flowers No No Yes £273 3s 42% N/A
01 Jun 1793 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Mariners No No Yes £182 3s 31% N/A
26 Nov 1795 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Children in the Wood No No No £167 17s 42% N/A
02 Jan 1796 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Children in the Wood No No No £165 9s 45% N/A
21 May 1796 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Hartford Bridge, The Lucky Escape No No Yes £327 11s 6d N/A N/A
07 Jun 1797 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Poor Soldier, The Waggoner No No Yes £359 5s 64% N/A
05 Oct 1798 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Reformed in Time No No No £225 3s 100% N/A
18 Jun 1802 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Dairy Maids, The Flitch of Bacon, Sweet Passion of Love, The Beggar Girl, Crazy Jane No No Yes £62 11s N/A N/A
14 Nov 1804 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £181 8s 38% N/A
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