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
£24,156 13s 6d £388 7s (1.6%) £23,768 6s 6d (98.4%)
1732 - 1809
£24,156 13s 6d - (100%) £388 7s (1.6%) £23,768 6s 6d (98.4%)
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 %
05 Feb 1780 Drury Lane The West Indian, Who's The Dupe?, The Sportsman Deceived No No No £138 1s 35% N/A
11 Mar 1780 Drury Lane Julius Caesar, Who's The Dupe?, The Sportsman Deceived No No No £104 13s 6d 29% N/A
11 Apr 1780 Drury Lane Cymon, Who's The Dupe?, Tally Ho! No No Yes £300 2s 6d 32% N/A
22 Apr 1780 Drury Lane The Rivals, Who's The Dupe? No No Yes £132 14s 6d 42% N/A
28 Apr 1780 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humour, Who's The Dupe?, Tally Ho! No No Yes £111 18s 34% N/A
20 May 1780 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, Who's The Dupe? No No Yes £256 14s 41% N/A
26 Sep 1780 Drury Lane Love In A Village, Who's the Dupe?, Country Dance, Minuet de la Cour, The Butterfly No No No £159 13s 100% N/A
18 Oct 1780 Drury Lane The Maid Of The Mill, Who's the Dupe?, The Force of Love, Minuet de la Cour No No No £115 17s 38% N/A
17 Nov 1780 Drury Lane A Trip To Scarborough, Who's the Dupe?, Minuet de la Cour No No No £75 17s 30% N/A
24 Jan 1781 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, Who's the Dupe?, The Countryman Deceiv'd, Minuet de la Cour No No No £115 18s 6d 34% N/A