The Brothers (1769)

Author
Richard Cumberland
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
£8,056 4s £6,325 19s (78.5%) £1,730 5s (21.5%)
1732 - 1809
£8,056 4s - (100%) £6,325 19s (78.5%) £1,730 5s (21.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
50 41 9
1732 - 1809
50 41 9
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
28 Nov 1770 Covent Garden The Brothers, True Blue, The Rape of Proserpine Yes No No Unknown N/A N/A
05 Dec 1770 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Portrait, Pastoral Dance, The Old ground Young No Yes No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jan 1771 Covent Garden The Brothers, Mother Shipton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
06 Feb 1771 Covent Garden The Brothers, Mother Shipton No No No Unknown N/A N/A
08 May 1771 Covent Garden The Brothers, Thomas and Sally, The Wapping Landlady, Double Hornpipe No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
19 Oct 1771 Covent Garden The Brothers, Mother Shipton No No No £139 6d 56% N/A
22 Nov 1771 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Fairy Prince No No No £166 15s 40% N/A
27 Dec 1771 Covent Garden The Brothers, Mother Shipton No No No £133 2s 40% N/A
16 May 1772 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Padlock, Minuets, The Wapping Landlady, Allemandes, Cotillions, Sixfold Hornpipe No No Yes £252 6s 41% N/A
22 Mar 1774 Drury Lane The Brothers, The School Boy, Bucks Have at ye All No No Yes £166 16s 43% N/A
23 Feb 1775 Drury Lane The Brothers, Harlequin's Jacket, Grand Provencalle Dance No No No £143 5s 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
23 Sep 1775 Drury Lane The Brothers, The Theatrical Candidates, The Miller of Mansfield No No No £208 11s 100% N/A
15 Jan 1778 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Mayor of Garratt, The Humours of Leixlip No No No £165 6s 40% N/A
25 Apr 1787 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Poor Soldier, Leap Year No No Yes £303 7s 35% N/A
11 May 1787 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Maid of Bath, Leap Year No No Yes £224 6s 42% N/A
10 Oct 1787 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Padlock No No No £145 6s 100% N/A
30 May 1788 Covent Garden The Brothers, Love and War, The Cobler of Castle Dormot No No Yes £296 8s 53% N/A
16 Jun 1789 Covent Garden The Brothers, The Farmer, The Wapping Landlady No No Yes £371 2s 6d 100% N/A
02 May 1791 Covent Garden The Brothers, Alexander the Little or The Rival Queans, The Jockies No No Yes £327 4s 44% N/A
04 Nov 1800 Drury Lane The Brothers, The Deaf Lover, Actaeon and Diana No No No £157 14s 6d 33% N/A
11 Nov 1800 Drury Lane The Brothers, Robinson Cruosoe, A Quarter of an Hour before Dinner No No No £124 17s 6d 31% N/A
25 Sep 1802 Drury Lane The Brothers, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £301 3s 6d 100% N/A
09 Oct 1802 Drury Lane The Brothers, The Spoiled Child No No No £252 9s 100% N/A
28 Oct 1802 Drury Lane The Brothers, Midas No No No £209 1s 45% N/A
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