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 %
15 May 1793 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Mariners No No No £138 15s 53% N/A
02 Jul 1794 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Glorious First Of June, Ballets No No Yes £1,013 8s 6d 100% N/A
22 Oct 1794 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Lodoiska No No No £371 4s 74% N/A
15 Apr 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Alexander the Great No No No £370 19s 6d 65% N/A
20 Apr 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Prize No No No £298 17s 6d 36% N/A
30 Apr 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Prize No No No £246 19s 6d 57% N/A
20 May 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Alexander the Great, The Deserter No No Yes £376 19s 61% N/A
03 Jun 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Hob in the Well, Britain's Glory or A Trip to Portsmouth, Within a Mile of Edinburgh, Dance of Sailors, Monsieur Tonson, A Variety of Imitations, Rule Britannia No No Yes £430 2s 55% N/A
03 Nov 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, No Song No Supper No No No £272 14s 69% N/A
03 Dec 1795 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Lodoiska No No No £227 4s 6d 52% N/A
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