The Contrivances; or, More Ways Than One (1715)

Author
Henry Carey
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£3,365 17s £2,818 18s 6d (83.8%) £546 18s 6d (16.2%)
1732 - 1809
£3,365 17s - (100%) £2,818 18s 6d (83.8%) £546 18s 6d (16.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
147 123 24
1732 - 1809
147 123 24
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
28 Sep 1763 Covent Garden The Inconstant Or The Way To Win Him, The Contrivances No No No Unknown N/A N/A
20 Oct 1763 Covent Garden The Provok'd Wife, The Contrivances, The Knife Grinders No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Jan 1764 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Contrivances, The Knife Grinders No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Apr 1764 Drury Lane Cymbeline, The Contrivances, Sweet Bird, The Provancalle No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
22 May 1764 Covent Garden Every Man In His Humour, The Contrivances, Double Hornpipe, Minuet, The Tricks of Pierrot, Venus Revenged No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 Sep 1764 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, The Contrivances No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Sep 1765 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, The Contrivances, The Venetian Gardeners No No No Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1767 Drury Lane The Jealous Wife, The Contrivances, Comic Dance No No Yes £44 12s N/A N/A
21 May 1767 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man, The Contrivances, New Pantomime Ballet, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £244 14s 6d 26% N/A
01 Feb 1768 Covent Garden The Good Natured Man, The Contrivances No No No £233 1s N/A N/A
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