The Country Girl (1766)

Author
David Garrick
Author
William Wycherley
Work Type
Mainpiece
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
£33,278 4s £184 17s 6d (0.6%) £33,093 6s 6d (99.4%)
1732 - 1809
£33,278 4s - (100%) £184 17s 6d (0.6%) £33,093 6s 6d (99.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
159 3 156
1732 - 1809
159 3 156
Notes
Adapted from William Wycherley's 'The Country Wife' (1675).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
11 May 1804 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Shipwreck No No Yes £355 5s 36% N/A
29 Apr 1805 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Personification; or, Fairly Taken In, Comus No No Yes £535 5s 40% N/A
16 May 1805 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Soldier's Return No No No £188 1s 40% N/A
05 Jun 1805 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Soldier's Return No No No £141 11s 6d 58% N/A
14 Sep 1805 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Irishman in London No No No £352 5s 100% N/A
22 Nov 1805 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Weathercock No No No £202 7s 6d 45% N/A
23 Nov 1805 Covent Garden The Country Girl, The Miser, The Wild Islanders; or, The Court of Pekin No No No £184 17s 6d 39% N/A
09 Apr 1806 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Forty Thieves No No No £520 12s 75% N/A
27 May 1806 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Forty Thieves No No No £324 15s 6d 78% N/A
17 Sep 1807 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Weathercock No No No £528 14s 100% N/A
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