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 %
03 Feb 1796 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Harlequin Captive No No No £328 16s 51% N/A
15 Apr 1796 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Smugglers No No No £279 11s 58% N/A
18 May 1796 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Alive and Merry No No No £195 16s 63% N/A
01 Oct 1796 Drury Lane The Country Girl, My Grandmother, The Triumph of Love No No No £598 2s 100% N/A
20 Oct 1796 Drury Lane The Country Girl, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £287 4s 6d 73% N/A
18 May 1797 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Prisoner, Listen to the Voice of Love, A Lilliputian Performance No No Yes £356 18s 6d 59% N/A
27 May 1797 Drury Lane The Purse, The Country Girl, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Minor No No Yes £260 15s 6d 80% N/A
08 Jun 1797 Drury Lane The Country Girl, The Purse, The Wandering Jew, Sweet Lillies of the Valley, Sally in Our Alley, The Sailor's Journal, The Town and Country No No Yes £584 7s 6d 75% N/A
14 Jun 1797 Covent Garden The Country Girl, No Song No Supper, Peggy's Love, Cupid and Psyche No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
26 Sep 1797 Drury Lane The Country Girl, No Song No Supper No No No £315 15s 6d 100% N/A
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