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 %
09 Apr 1772 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Author, The Amusements of Strasburgh Yes No Yes £165 7s 43% N/A
25 Apr 1772 Covent Garden The Wonder, The Author, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £120 1s 6d 39% N/A
12 May 1772 Covent Garden King Richard III, The Author, Comic Dance No No Yes £153 16s 6d 47% N/A
18 May 1772 Drury Lane Love In A Village, The Author, Comic Dance, O What a Charming Thing's a Battle Yes No Yes £207 13s 6d 28% N/A
20 Nov 1772 Drury Lane The Alchymist, The Author No No No £217 16s 62% N/A
04 Dec 1772 Drury Lane The Provok'd Wife, The Author, The Butterfly No No No £229 11s 6d 67% N/A
13 Feb 1773 Drury Lane The Alchymist, The Author Yes No No £210 1s 6d 56% N/A
08 Mar 1773 Drury Lane Alonzo, The Author No No Yes £176 13s N/A N/A
22 Apr 1773 Drury Lane The Way To Keep Him, The Author, Minuet, Louvre, Mungo Dance, New Comic Dance, Pas de Trois, Tambourine, The Lutte Marine No No Yes £154 18s 23% N/A
17 May 1773 Drury Lane The Maid Of Kent, The Author, The Drunken Peasant No No Yes £99 3s 6d 37% N/A
25 May 1773 Drury Lane The Conscious Lovers, The Author, Hornpipe, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £269 3s 6d 37% N/A
21 Mar 1774 Drury Lane The Fair Quaker, The Author Yes No Yes £263 10s 48% N/A
09 Apr 1774 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Author, The Corsican Sailors, The Highland Reel No No Yes £203 10s 6d 45% N/A
15 Apr 1774 Covent Garden Love In A Village, The Author, Triple Hornpipe, The Favourite Comic Ballet, Allemande, Minuet, New Serious Ballet, The Black Prince's Festival, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £194 9s 59% N/A
17 Nov 1774 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Oaks, The Author No No No £212 9s N/A N/A
26 Apr 1775 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, The Author, Oh What a Charming Thing's a Battle, The Irish Fair No No Yes £142 16s N/A N/A
08 May 1775 Drury Lane The Brothers, The Author, Grand New Spanish Dance, Grand Dance, Hornpipe, The School Master No No Yes £166 7s 6d N/A N/A
28 Nov 1775 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Author, New Spanish Dance No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
04 Jan 1776 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Author, Mirth and Jollity No No No Unknown N/A N/A
26 Jan 1776 Drury Lane The Discovery, The Author No No No £243 8s 6d N/A N/A
20 Feb 1777 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Oaks, The Author, The Double Festival, Fete Champetre, The Triumph of Love No No No £165 19s 42% N/A
06 Feb 1778 Covent Garden She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, The Author, Tea or Tragedy a la Mode, The Cricketters No No Yes £221 6d 61% N/A
16 Mar 1779 Drury Lane The Countess Of Salisbury, The Author, Minuet de la Cour, Allemande No No Yes £217 16s 6d N/A N/A
21 Apr 1779 Covent Garden Annette And Lubin, The Fair Quaker or The Humours of the Navy, The Author, Dance of Sailors, Dance the Air No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
08 Nov 1782 Covent Garden The Castle Of Andalusia, The Author No No No £185 18s 6d 44% N/A
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