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
£5,466 2s £4,919 3s 6d (90%) £546 18s 6d (10%)
1732 - 1809
£5,466 2s - (100%) £4,919 3s 6d (90%) £546 18s 6d (10%)
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 %
11 Dec 1758 Covent Garden The Orphan, The Contrivances, The Threshers Yes No Yes £55 2s 6d N/A N/A
21 Dec 1758 Covent Garden The Earl Of Essex, The Contrivances, The Fingalian Dance No No Yes £74 12s 6d 20% N/A
11 Jan 1759 Covent Garden Zara, The Contrivances, The Threshers No No No £82 12s 33% N/A
22 Feb 1759 Covent Garden Cymbeline, The Contrivances, The Threshers No No Yes £63 N/A N/A
27 Apr 1759 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Contrivances, Serious Dance, Le Badinage, Minuet, Tambourine, The Prussian Rope Makers Yes No Yes £89 2s 6d N/A N/A
01 May 1759 Covent Garden King Henry IV Part I, The Contrivances, The Drunken Peasant, The Milkmaid's Holiday: The Humours of May Day No No Yes £162 5s 6d 19% N/A
25 May 1759 Covent Garden The Double Dealer, The Contrivances, The Fingalian Dance No No Yes £195 2s 5% N/A
05 Oct 1759 Covent Garden The Twin Rivals, The Contrivances, The Thresher No No No £41 13s 6d 23% N/A
06 Dec 1759 Covent Garden The Committee Or The Faithful Irishman, The Contrivances, Fingalian Dance No No No £52 10s 6d 25% N/A
19 May 1760 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Contrivances, Comic Dance No No Yes £260 14s N/A N/A
25 Mar 1761 Covent Garden Rule A Wife And Have A Wife, The Contrivances, Les Charboniers Yes No Yes £211 9s N/A N/A
03 Apr 1761 Drury Lane The Provoked Wife, The Contrivances No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1761 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The Contrivances, The Italian Gardiners Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 Apr 1761 Drury Lane Venice Preserved, The Contrivances, The Fingalian Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
09 Oct 1761 Covent Garden Cleone, The Contrivances, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £74 7s 6d N/A N/A
23 Oct 1761 Covent Garden The Mourning Bride, The Contrivances, The Pedlar Tricked No No Yes £123 N/A N/A
10 Nov 1761 Covent Garden The Minor, The Contrivances, Les Charboniers No No No £149 2s N/A N/A
12 Nov 1761 Covent Garden The Country Lasses, The Contrivances, The Pedlar Tricked No No No £168 N/A N/A
22 Dec 1761 Covent Garden Hamlet, The Contrivances No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 Jan 1762 Covent Garden The Lyar, The Contrivances, The Pedlar Tricked, The French Country Gentleman No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Mar 1762 Covent Garden The Jealous Wife, The Contrivances, The Pleasures of Spring Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
17 Apr 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Contrivances, Hornpipe, Minuet No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 May 1762 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man, The Contrivances, The Taylors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
13 May 1762 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The Contrivances, If O'er the Cruel Tyrant Love No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
21 May 1762 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Contrivances, The Pleasures of Spring, The Taylors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
24 Sep 1762 Covent Garden King Henry IV Part I With The Humours Of Sir John Falstaff, The Contrivances No No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Busy Body, The Contrivances No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Oct 1762 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Contrivances, The Swedish Gardeners, The Pedlar Tricked No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Nov 1762 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Contrivances No No No Unknown N/A N/A
22 Dec 1762 Covent Garden The Recruiting Officer, The Contrivances, Pleasures of Spring, The Jealous Woodcutter No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
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
14 Oct 1769 Covent Garden Man And Wife, The Contrivances, Pageant exhibiting the characters of Shakespeare, Concerto on hautboy, Representation of the Amphitheatre at Stratford upon Avon, with Masquerade, The Allemande No No No £123 8s 6d N/A N/A
02 Dec 1769 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Contrivances No No No £215 18s N/A N/A
23 Apr 1773 Covent Garden The Funeral Or Grief A La Mode, The Contrivances, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £236 3s 6d 56% N/A
28 May 1773 Covent Garden George Barnwell, The Contrivances, Hornpipe, The Cumberland Cornthrashers No No Yes £262 19s 6d N/A N/A
06 May 1785 Covent Garden Love Makes A Man Or The Fops Fortune, The Manager an Actor in Spite of Himself, The Contrivances, Leap Year No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
28 May 1785 Covent Garden Which Is The Man, The Contrivances, Minuet de la Cour, Gavot No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 May 1786 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, True Blue or The Parting Lovers, The Contrivances, The Tobacco Box No No Yes £271 2s 53% N/A
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