Zara (1736)

Author
Aaron Hill
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Tragedy
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
£14,442 4s 1d £4,750 7s 6d (32.9%) £9,691 16s 7d (67.1%)
1732 - 1809
£14,442 4s 1d - (100%) £4,750 7s 6d (32.9%) £9,691 16s 7d (67.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
128 44 84
1732 - 1809
128 44 84
Notes
Taken from Voltaire's 'Zaïre' (1732).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
14 Nov 1767 Drury Lane Zara, A Peep behind the Curtain Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 May 1768 Covent Garden Zara, The Upholsterer, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £235 14s N/A N/A
11 Oct 1768 Drury Lane Zara, Queen Mab Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
19 Nov 1768 Covent Garden Zara, The Upholsterer, The Merry Sailors No No No £159 7s 6d N/A N/A
21 Feb 1769 Covent Garden Zara, Harlequin Skeleton Yes No No £198 7s N/A N/A
08 May 1769 Drury Lane Zara, The Register Office, New Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
02 Jan 1770 Drury Lane Zara, The Padlock No No No Unknown N/A N/A
28 Nov 1770 Drury Lane Zara, Miss in Her Teens No No No Unknown N/A N/A
18 Nov 1771 Drury Lane Zara, High Life below Stairs, The Amusements of Strasburgh Yes No No £248 6s 6d 52% N/A
16 Jan 1772 Drury Lane Zara, Lethe No No No £269 10s 6d N/A N/A
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