The Deaf Lover (1780)

Author
Frederick Pilon
Composer
William Shield
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
£20,899 10s £8,878 4s 6d (42.5%) £12,021 5s 6d (57.5%)
1732 - 1809
£20,899 10s - (100%) £8,878 4s 6d (42.5%) £12,021 5s 6d (57.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
87 40 47
1732 - 1809
87 40 47
Notes
Altered from Pilon's The Device (1779)
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
25 May 1781 Covent Garden The West Indian, The Deaf Lover, The Humours of Leixlip No No Yes £271 34% N/A
26 Sep 1781 Covent Garden The Duenna, The Deaf Lover, The Shepherds Wedding No No No £169 9s 100% N/A
24 Oct 1781 Covent Garden Artaxerxes, The Deaf Lover, The Sports of the Green No No No £228 4s 6d 70% N/A
17 Nov 1781 Covent Garden The Count Of Narbonne, The Deaf Lover No No No £164 10s 6d 57% N/A
18 Nov 1783 Drury Lane The Lord Of The Manor, The Deaf Lover No No No £100 10s 36% N/A
24 Nov 1783 Drury Lane The Gamester, The Deaf Lover No No No £277 16s 6d 65% N/A
06 Dec 1783 Drury Lane The Gamester, The Deaf Lover No No No £226 13s 6d 52% N/A
10 Dec 1783 Drury Lane King John, The Deaf Lover No Yes No £300 9s 54% N/A
23 Dec 1783 Drury Lane A School For Fathers, The Deaf Lover No No No £78 13s 6d 21% N/A
04 Feb 1784 Drury Lane Measure For Measure, The Deaf Lover No No No £171 6d 48% N/A
24 Apr 1784 Drury Lane Tancred And Sigismunda, The Deaf Lover, The Sportmen's Return No No Yes £324 1s 47% N/A
08 May 1784 Drury Lane Douglas, The Deaf Lover No No No £225 18s 76% N/A
25 May 1784 Drury Lane A Trip To Scarborough, The Deaf Lover, The Jovial Sailors No No Yes £216 16s 25% N/A
09 May 1785 Drury Lane The Clandestine Marriage, The Deaf Lover, The Sportsmen's Return No No Yes £144 6s N/A N/A
19 Jan 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Deaf Lover No No No £236 5s 6d 49% N/A
23 Jan 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Deaf Lover, The Irish Bird Catchers No No No £251 14s 55% N/A
28 Jan 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Deaf Lover, The Irish Bird Catchers No No No £206 14s 6d 53% N/A
03 Feb 1790 Drury Lane Much Ado About Nothing, The Deaf Lover, Minuet, Sigh No More, Ladies, Gavot, The Irish Bird Catchers No No No £126 17s 6d 39% N/A
06 Feb 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Deaf Lover, The Irish Bird Catchers No No No £194 4s 41% N/A
20 Feb 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Deaf Lover, The Irish Bird Catchers No No No £213 10s 46% N/A
08 Mar 1790 Drury Lane Love In Many Masks, The Deaf Lover, The Elopement; or, Marriage a la Mode No No No £165 14s 6d 39% N/A
06 May 1790 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, The Deaf Lover No No No £201 19s 6d 49% N/A
14 Dec 1790 Drury Lane The Grecian Daughter, The Deaf Lover No No No £297 6s 6d 60% N/A
21 Dec 1790 Drury Lane Isabella, The Deaf Lover, Epithalamium No No No £259 13s 6d 54% N/A
12 Jan 1791 Drury Lane The Siege Of Belgrade, The Deaf Lover No No No £242 5s 51% N/A
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