The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught (1745)

Author
Henry Fielding
Work Type
Afterpiece
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
£2,193 10s 6d £0 (0%) £2,193 10s 6d (100%)
1732 - 1809
£2,193 10s 6d - (100%) £0 (0%) £2,193 10s 6d (100%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
31 0 31
1732 - 1809
31 0 31
Notes
A revised and shortened version of Fielding's 'The Old Debauchees' (1732) which had not done well when first performed. Reduced the original three acts to two in order to take advantage of anti-Catholic sentiment after the Jacobite Rebellion.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
17 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Gamester, The Debauchees or The Jesuit Caught, Grand Dance No No No £79 14s 6d 100% N/A
19 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Orphan Or The Unhappy Marriage, The Debauchees, Grand Comic Dance No No No £89 17s 100% N/A
22 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Nonjuror, The Debauchees No No No £120 4s 100% N/A
24 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Nonjuror, The Debauchees, Grand Comic Dance No No No £114 16s 100% N/A
26 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Nonjuror, The Debauchees, Grand Comic Dance No No No £146 10s 6d 100% N/A
28 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Nonjuror, The Debauchees No No No £48 6s N/A N/A
29 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Nonjuror, The Debauchees No No No £94 18s 6d N/A N/A
30 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Nonjuror, The Debauchees No No No £53 2s 6d N/A N/A
31 Oct 1745 Drury Lane The Nonjuror, The Debauchees, Grand Comic Dance, Britons Never Will Be Slaves No No No £70 6s N/A N/A
01 Nov 1745 Drury Lane The Constant Couple Or A Trip To The Jubilee, The Debauchees, Britons Never Will Be Slaves No No No £85 12s N/A N/A
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