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 %
14 May 1779 Drury Lane The Merchant Of Venice, Who's the Dupe?, The Coopers, The Humours of Newmarket No Yes No £216 2s 6d N/A N/A
20 May 1779 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, Who's the Dupe?, Double Hornpipe No No No £181 10s N/A N/A
24 May 1779 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, A Monody, Who's the Dupe?, Double Hornpipe No No Yes £98 14s 6d N/A N/A
27 May 1779 Drury Lane The Double Deception, Who's the Dupe?, Double Hornpipe No No No £56 8s 6d 100% N/A
03 Jun 1779 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, A Monody, Who's the Dupe?, Double Hornpipe No No No £168 14s 6d 100% N/A
09 Dec 1779 Drury Lane The Times, Who's The Dupe? No No Yes £106 15s 6d N/A N/A
11 Dec 1779 Drury Lane The Winter's Tale, Who's The Dupe? No No No £126 14s 6d 44% N/A
15 Dec 1779 Drury Lane Zoraida, Who's The Dupe? No No Yes £99 3s N/A N/A
28 Dec 1779 Drury Lane George Barnwell, Who's The Dupe?, The Huntsman Deceiv'd No No No £124 14s 6d 39% N/A
30 Dec 1779 Drury Lane The Tempest, Who's The Dupe?, Dance of Spirits, Dance of Fantastic Spirits, The Sportsman Deceived No No No £96 19s 37% N/A