The Critic (1781)

Author
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Work Type
Afterpiece
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
£28,093 4s £1,087 13s (3.9%) £27,005 11s (96.1%)
1732 - 1809
£28,093 4s - (100%) £1,087 13s (3.9%) £27,005 11s (96.1%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
136 4 132
1732 - 1809
136 4 132
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
18 Dec 1788 Drury Lane The Suspicious Husband, The Critic No No No £118 8s 6d 43% N/A
24 Jan 1789 Drury Lane King Henry The Eighth, The Critic No No No £238 14s 62% N/A
03 Feb 1789 Drury Lane King Henry The Eighth, The Critic No No No £226 10s 6d 53% N/A
07 May 1789 Drury Lane The Way Of The World, The Critic, The Drunken Swiss No No Yes £210 13s 30% N/A
15 May 1789 Drury Lane The Heiress, The Critic, The Welsh Cantata, The Bells of Aberdovey No No Yes £239 16s 27% N/A
27 Oct 1790 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed No No No £265 14s 56% N/A
13 Nov 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Critic No No No £262 14s 6d N/A N/A
20 Nov 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Critic No No No £250 15s 67% N/A
27 Nov 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Critic No No No £270 3s 61% N/A
04 Dec 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Critic No No No £272 19s 6d 56% N/A
11 Dec 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Critic No No No £234 1s 53% N/A
18 Dec 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Critic No No No £202 9s 6d 61% N/A
16 Feb 1791 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, The Critic No No No £204 6d 49% N/A
08 Mar 1791 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Critic No No No £239 5s 6d N/A N/A
17 Mar 1791 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Critic No No No £217 16s 6d 47% N/A
31 Mar 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Critic No No Yes £296 17s N/A N/A
07 Apr 1791 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Critic No No No £254 1s 6d 57% N/A
03 Oct 1791 Drury Lane Poor Old Drury, As You Like It, The Critic No No No £251 4s 6d 57% N/A
10 Apr 1792 Drury Lane The Double Gallant, The Court of Apollo, The Critic No No Yes £336 19s 46% N/A
12 Dec 1794 Drury Lane Alls Well That Ends Well, The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed No No No £282 1s 62% N/A
19 Dec 1794 Drury Lane The School For Lovers, The Critic No No No £205 3s 51% N/A
19 Jan 1795 Drury Lane The Cherokee, The Critic No No No £262 14s 6d 60% N/A
13 Apr 1796 Drury Lane The Smugglers, A Favourite Scene from New Hay (Sylvester Daggerwood), The Critic, The Wedding Day No No Yes £614 9s 6d 70% N/A
12 May 1797 Drury Lane As You Like It, The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed, The Scotch Ghost No No Yes £386 18s 55% N/A
01 Jun 1797 Drury Lane She Wou'd And She Wou'd Not, Sylvester Daggerwood, The Critic No No Yes £377 5s 75% N/A
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