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
£16,669 11s 6d £4,664 15s (28%) £12,004 16s 6d (72%)
1732 - 1809
£16,669 11s 6d - (100%) £4,664 15s (28%) £12,004 16s 6d (72%)
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 %
27 Dec 1765 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Royal Chace No No No Unknown N/A N/A
27 Feb 1766 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Midas No No No Unknown N/A N/A
12 Apr 1766 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Thomas and Sally, Hornpipe, The Sicilian Peasants No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 May 1766 Drury Lane A Bold Stroke For A Wife, A Fairy Tale, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
25 Oct 1766 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Royal Chace or Harlequin Skeleton No No No £118 10s 40% N/A
06 Jan 1767 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £118 18s 50% N/A
26 Feb 1767 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £220 16s 49% N/A
02 Apr 1767 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Harlequin Dr Faustus No No No £148 1s 49% N/A
26 Dec 1767 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, The Royal Chace No No No £188 12s 6d N/A N/A
21 Jan 1768 Covent Garden A Bold Stroke For A Wife, Orpheus and Eurydice No No No £205 1s N/A N/A
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