The Debauchees; or, The Jesuit Caught (1745)

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 %
23 Jan 1748 Drury Lane The Refusal, The Debauchees, Tambourine, Polish Dance, Savoyards Yes No No £70 15s 6d N/A N/A