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 %
06 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The Follies Of A Day, The Irish Widow, A Masque In Honor of the Nuptials of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales with Caroline Princess of Brunswick on 8 April 1795, The Poor Soldier, Grand Dance, The Richmond Primrose Girl No No Yes £204 5s 57% N/A
13 Jun 1796 Drury Lane Katharine And Petruchio, The Prize, The Irish Widow, Monsieur Tonson No No Yes £580 17s 6d 100% N/A
17 Oct 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Irish Widow No No No £247 16s 6d 100% N/A
21 Oct 1797 Drury Lane Cheap Living, The Irish Widow No No No £348 14s 6d 56% N/A
07 Dec 1797 Drury Lane The Wheel Of Fortune, The Irish Widow No No No £150 6s 40% N/A
27 Dec 1797 Drury Lane The Castle spectre, The Irish Widow, A Trip to the Nore No No No £303 10s 48% N/A
18 Jun 1799 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Irish Widow No No No £465 16s 100% N/A
27 Nov 1799 Drury Lane The Stranger, The Irish Widow, To Welcome Mirth and Harmless Glee, I Have a Silent Sorrow Here No No No £416 4s 6d 65% N/A
10 Oct 1801 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, The Irish Widow No No No £346 17s 6d 100% N/A
19 Nov 1802 Covent Garden The Cabinet, The Irish Widow No No No £222 13s 6d 56% N/A
18 Dec 1802 Covent Garden Family Quarrels, The Irish Widow No No No £333 11s 53% N/A
26 Oct 1803 Covent Garden The Cabinet, The Irish Widow No No No £396 7s 6d 70% N/A
22 May 1805 Covent Garden Othello, The Irish Widow No No Yes £447 8s 64% N/A
11 Jun 1807 Covent Garden Tempest, Irish Widow No No Yes £236 12s 6d 38% N/A
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