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 %
09 Jun 1797 Drury Lane The School For Scandal, The Critic, The Scotch Ghost, Imitations No No Yes £465 13s 6d 49% N/A
24 May 1798 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Critic or A Tragedy Rehearsed, Sigh No More, Ladies, Little Bess the Ballad Singer, Little Taffline No No Yes £505 1s 6d 83% N/A
08 Jun 1798 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Critic, The Shipwreck, I Never Lov'd Any Dear Mary But You, The Fight Off Camperdown, The Town and Country No No Yes £642 18s 100% N/A
30 Apr 1800 Covent Garden The Rage, The Critic or A Tragedy Rehears'd, Sally in Our Alley, Black Ey'd Susan, Rule Britannia No No Yes £433 2s 41% N/A
10 May 1809 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, The Critick No No Yes £319 9s 45% N/A
22 May 1809 Drury Lane Three & Deuce, Critic, Irishman in London No No Yes £325 16s 40% N/A
24 May 1809 Drury Lane Critic, Grandmother, Three & Deuce No No Yes £240 11s 6d 65% N/A
24 May 1809 Covent Garden A Cure for the Heart Ache, The Critick No No Yes £335 2s 35% N/A
27 May 1809 Drury Lane Grieving's a Folly, Critic No No Yes £232 11s 77% N/A
04 Jun 1809 Drury Lane Critic, Devil to Pay, Three & Deuce No No Yes £148 2s N/A N/A
07 Jun 1809 Drury Lane Grieving's A Folly, Critic No No Yes £115 9s N/A N/A
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