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
20 Dec 1764 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 May 1765 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, The Deuce Is in Him, New Comic Dance, Double Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Oct 1765 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, A Duke and no Duke, The Venetian Gardeners No No No Unknown N/A N/A
29 Oct 1765 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Nov 1766 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £166 11s 64% N/A
03 Jan 1767 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £156 6s 6d 46% N/A
19 Mar 1767 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Midas No No No £224 17s 6d 46% N/A
06 Nov 1767 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Dr Faustus, Comic Dance No No No £145 9s 6d N/A N/A
26 Nov 1767 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin's Invasion, The Gardners Holiday No No No Unknown N/A N/A
02 Dec 1767 Drury Lane The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin's Invasion, Hearts of Oak, The Lilliputian Camp Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
07 Jan 1768 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No £192 10s N/A N/A
28 May 1768 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Dr Faustus, Comic Dance No No Yes £154 17s 6d 100% N/A
06 Oct 1768 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No £102 19s N/A N/A
27 Oct 1768 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £120 15s 6d N/A N/A
06 May 1769 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Devil to Pay, Minuet Yes No Yes £135 9s 6d N/A N/A
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