The Author (1757)

Author
Samuel Foote
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£12,594 16s 6d £2,448 14s (19.4%) £10,146 2s 6d (80.6%)
1732 - 1809
£12,594 16s 6d - (100%) £2,448 14s (19.4%) £10,146 2s 6d (80.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
84 27 57
1732 - 1809
84 27 57
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
02 Dec 1757 Drury Lane The Fatal Marriage, The Author No No No £200 77% N/A
14 Dec 1757 Drury Lane The Distrest Mother, The Author, The Market No No Yes £160 N/A N/A
21 Dec 1757 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Author No No Yes £280 N/A N/A
10 Jan 1758 Drury Lane The Mourning Bride, The Author, The Prussian Camp No No No £140 56% N/A
20 Jan 1758 Drury Lane The Gamesters, The Author, The Prussian Camp No No No £160 59% N/A
26 Jan 1758 Drury Lane Creusa, The Author, The Italian Peasants No No No £180 72% N/A
01 Feb 1758 Drury Lane The Spanish Fryar Or The Double Discovery, The Author No No No £150 44% N/A
17 Oct 1770 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Author, Comic Dance, The Merry Sailors No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
01 Nov 1770 Covent Garden Barbarossa, The Author, Comic Dance No No No Unknown N/A N/A
03 Nov 1770 Covent Garden Barbarossa, The Author, The Reel No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1770 Covent Garden Lionel And Clarissa, The Author, The Reel No No No Unknown N/A N/A
15 Nov 1770 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, The Author, True Blue No No No Unknown N/A N/A
04 Dec 1770 Covent Garden Cyrus, True Blue, The Author No No No Unknown N/A N/A
21 Dec 1770 Covent Garden The Miser, True Blue, The Author No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Feb 1771 Covent Garden Clementina, The Author, The Lilt No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
14 Mar 1771 Drury Lane Cymon, The Author No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Mar 1771 Covent Garden Cyrus, The Author, The Old ground Young, Allemande No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
05 Apr 1771 Covent Garden As You Like It, The Author, The Tartars, An Allemande Yes No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
16 Apr 1771 Drury Lane The Beggar's Opera, The Author, Comic Dance, A Variety of Imitations No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
20 Apr 1771 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, The Author, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
23 May 1771 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Author, Comic Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Oct 1771 Covent Garden Cyrus, The Author, The Jealous Woodcutters No No No £139 11s 6d 55% N/A
04 Nov 1771 Covent Garden Tamerlane, The Author, The Jovial Gardners No No No £180 8s 43% N/A
21 Dec 1771 Covent Garden Othello, The Author, The Reel No No Yes £185 16s 49% N/A
28 Mar 1772 Drury Lane Timoleon Or Liberty Restored, The Author Yes No Yes £207 6s 39% N/A
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