The Irish Widow (1772)

Author
David Garrick
Author
Molière
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
£29,522 19s 7d £2,664 6s 6d (9%) £26,858 13s 1d (91%)
1732 - 1809
£29,522 19s 7d - (100%) £2,664 6s 6d (9%) £26,858 13s 1d (91%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
139 11 128
1732 - 1809
139 11 128
Notes
Based on Molière's Le Marriage Forcè (1664).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
27 Apr 1776 Covent Garden Love For Love, The Irish Widow, The Merry Sailors No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
01 May 1776 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, The Irish Widow, Comic Dance No No Yes £54 17s N/A N/A
08 May 1776 Covent Garden The Fair Penitent, The Irish Widow, The Humours of the NewMarket Races No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
11 May 1776 Drury Lane The Rehearsal, The Election, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £57 11s 6d N/A N/A
18 May 1776 Drury Lane The Tempest, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair No No Yes £43 14s 6d N/A N/A
22 May 1776 Drury Lane Romeo And Juliet, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair No No Yes £29 9s N/A N/A
14 Dec 1776 Drury Lane Semiramis, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair No No No £226 3s 6d 48% N/A
19 Apr 1777 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Irish Widow, The Corn Thrashers, Minuet de la Cour, The Irish Fair No No Yes £232 1s 6d 39% N/A
21 May 1777 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Irish Widow No Yes No £273 1s 80% N/A
30 May 1777 Drury Lane The Tempest, The Irish Widow, The Triumph of Love, The Irish Fair No No Yes £235 4s 100% N/A
02 May 1778 Drury Lane Love In A Village, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour, Hornpipe, The Sailors' Revels No No Yes £153 5s 39% N/A
09 May 1778 Drury Lane Cymon, The Irish Widow, The Irish Fair No No Yes £182 6d 61% N/A
12 May 1778 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £298 9s 6d 38% N/A
14 May 1778 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour, He's Aye Kissing Me, Stand to Your Guns, My Hearts of Oak No No Yes £132 16s 43% N/A
18 May 1778 Drury Lane The Old Batchelor, The Irish Widow, Hornpipe, He's Aye Kissing Me, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £287 5s 32% N/A
20 May 1778 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour No No No £233 2s 6d 85% N/A
22 May 1778 Drury Lane The Runaway, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £309 16s 65% N/A
28 May 1778 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour No No No £216 4s 6d 100% N/A
19 Sep 1778 Drury Lane Hamlet, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour, Allemande No No No £157 14s 6d 100% N/A
30 Nov 1778 Drury Lane The Fathers Or The Good Natur'd Man, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour, Allemande No No No £210 11s 6d N/A N/A
11 Dec 1778 Drury Lane The Stratagem, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour, Allemande, The Coopers No No No £131 13s 6d N/A N/A
23 Dec 1778 Drury Lane Cymon, The Irish Widow, Dance of Cupids, Allemande, Dance of Daemons, Grand Ballet, Grand Dance, Minuet de la Cour No No No £159 19s N/A N/A
01 Jan 1779 Drury Lane A School For Fathers, The Irish Widow, The Coopers No No No £82 17s 6d N/A N/A
05 Jan 1779 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour, Allemande No No No £74 11s N/A N/A
30 Apr 1779 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Irish Widow, Minuet de la Cour, Allemande No Yes No £240 2s N/A N/A
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