The Rivals (1775)

Author
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£23,541 19s £2,734 1s (11.6%) £20,807 18s (88.4%)
1732 - 1809
£23,541 19s - (100%) £2,734 1s (11.6%) £20,807 18s (88.4%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
137 33 104
1732 - 1809
137 33 104
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
01 Oct 1791 Drury Lane Poor Old Drury, The Rivals, The Spoiled Child No No No £450 3s 100% N/A
15 Oct 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Cave of Trophonius No No No £464 15s 100% N/A
29 Oct 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, Comus No No No £298 9s 67% N/A
12 Nov 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Doctor and the Apothecary No No No £250 7s 6d 54% N/A
07 Dec 1791 Drury Lane The Rivals, The Flitch of Bacon No No No £198 11s 33% N/A
19 Mar 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, The American Heroine or Ingratitude Punished No No Yes £452 16s 42% N/A
13 Apr 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, Richard Coeur de Lion No No Yes £384 16s 35% N/A
02 May 1792 Covent Garden The Rivals, The Irishman in London, Divertisement, If You Travel the Wide World All Over (A Planxty Descriptive of Ireland) No No Yes £361 9s 6d 23% N/A
10 May 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, Bon Ton No No Yes £394 18s 6d 51% N/A
22 Sep 1792 Drury Lane The Rivals, No Song No Supper No No No £238 5s 6d 100% N/A
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