A Bold Stroke for a Wife (1718)

Author
Susanna Centlivre
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
£19,134 15s £5,906 18s (30.9%) £13,227 17s (69.1%)
1732 - 1809
£19,134 15s - (100%) £5,906 18s (30.9%) £13,227 17s (69.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
158 65 93
1732 - 1809
158 65 93
Notes
Reduced to 3 acts as AP on 17881128 and performed as AP that season
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
25 May 1785 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Waterman, The Slave in Chains, Bright Phoebus has Mounted the Chariot of Day No No Yes £246 1s N/A N/A
25 Oct 1786 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £178 6s 6d 42% N/A
22 Dec 1786 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Jubilee No No No £163 16s 6d N/A N/A
02 Jan 1787 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Enchanted Castle No No No £210 18s 6d 50% N/A
31 May 1787 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £323 16s 6d 49% N/A
19 Sep 1787 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No No £142 4s 100% N/A
29 Dec 1787 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Dumb Cake No No No £185 2s 46% N/A
04 Jun 1788 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Deserter No No Yes £189 10s 38% N/A
28 Nov 1788 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Mirth by Moonshine No No No £150 15s 6d 42% N/A
03 Dec 1788 Covent Garden The Highland Reel, A Bold Stroke for a Wife No No No £143 12s 52% N/A
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