The Distressed Mother (1712)

Author
Ambrose Philips
Author
Jean Racine
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Tragedy
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
£11,839 19s £5,190 8s (43.8%) £6,649 11s (56.2%)
1732 - 1809
£11,839 19s - (100%) £5,190 8s (43.8%) £6,649 11s (56.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
159 97 62
1732 - 1809
159 97 62
Notes
A translation of Racine's Andromaque (1667).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 Oct 1736 Covent Garden The Distrest Mother, The Rape of Proserpine No No No Unknown N/A N/A
31 Dec 1736 Covent Garden The Distrest Mother, Perseus and Andromeda No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Apr 1737 Drury Lane The Distrest Mother, The Devil to Pay No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
06 May 1737 Covent Garden The Distrest Mother, The Devil to Pay, Two Pierrots, The Lady's Lamentation, Caelia has a Thousand Charms, Drunken Man, Fingalian, Grecian Sailors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 May 1737 Drury Lane The Distrest Mother, The Virgin Unmasked, English Maggot, Come Let Us Prepare, Let Masonry be Now My Theme, On on My Dear, Wooden Shoe Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Oct 1737 Covent Garden The Distrest Mother, The Necromancer or Harlequin Doctor Faustus No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Jan 1738 Covent Garden The Distrest Mother, The Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Apr 1738 Drury Lane The Distrest Mother, Tambourine, The Lady's Lamentation for the Loss of Senesino, La Pieraite, Maggot, Punch No Yes Yes Unknown N/A N/A
31 Oct 1738 Covent Garden The Distrest Mother, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Dec 1738 Covent Garden The Distrest Mother, Margery or A Worse Plague than the Dragon , Being the Sequel to the Dragon of Wantley No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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