Who's the Dupe? (1779)

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
£20,190 4s £118 1s 6d (0.6%) £20,072 2s 6d (99.4%)
1732 - 1809
£20,190 4s - (100%) £118 1s 6d (0.6%) £20,072 2s 6d (99.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
115 1 114
1732 - 1809
115 1 114
Notes
Based partly on Susanna Centlivre's 'The Stolen Heiress' (1702).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
16 Jan 1805 Drury Lane The Marriage Promise, Who's the Dupe?, Old Harlequin's Fire-side No No No £122 3s 6d 27% N/A
23 Mar 1805 Drury Lane Hamlet, Who's the Dupe? No No No £611 13s 6d 70% N/A
20 Mar 1806 Drury Lane The Travellers, Who's the Dupe? No No No £344 8s 48% N/A
22 Jan 1807 Drury Lane False Alarms; or, My Cousin, Who's the Dupe? No No No £191 14s 6d 30% N/A
14 May 1807 Drury Lane Tekeli, Who's the Dupe, The Wood Daemon No No No £192 1s 50% N/A