Flora; or, Hob in the Well (1760)

Author
John Hippisley
Author
Thomas Doggett
Author
William Bates
Composer
William Bates
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
Performance Medium
Musical
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
£10,765 4s 9d £7,796 9s 9d (72.4%) £2,968 15s (27.6%)
1732 - 1809
£10,765 4s 9d - (100%) £7,796 9s 9d (72.4%) £2,968 15s (27.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
149 112 37
1732 - 1809
149 112 37
Notes
Adapted from Thomas Doggett's The Country Wake (1711) and John Hippisley's Flora; or, Hob's Opera (1729).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 May 1760 Covent Garden Sir Courtly Nice, Flora, Comic Dance, The Lamp Lighters No No Yes £226 6s 9d N/A N/A
29 Sep 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Flora or Hob in the Well No No No £206 4s 6d 100% N/A
20 Nov 1760 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Flora No No No £113 N/A N/A
28 Apr 1761 Covent Garden The Stratagem, Flora, The Waggoners No No Yes £145 N/A N/A
05 May 1761 Covent Garden King Richard III, Flora, Comic Dance No No Yes £234 18s 6d N/A N/A
13 May 1761 Covent Garden The Spanish Fryar, Flora, New Comic Dance No No Yes £232 19s N/A N/A
11 Apr 1767 Drury Lane King Richard III, Flora or Hob in the Well, The Vintage No No Yes £201 19s 58% N/A
20 Apr 1767 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, Flora, Minuet, Cries of London (with Description of the Tombs in Westminster Abbey) No No Yes £232 1s 55% N/A
23 Apr 1767 Drury Lane King Lear, Flora, Hearts of Oak No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1767 Drury Lane King Richard III, Flora, Double Hornpipe, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £65 9s 6d N/A N/A
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