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
£17,578 11s 6d £6,942 8s 6d (39.5%) £10,636 3s (60.5%)
1732 - 1809
£17,578 11s 6d - (100%) £6,942 8s 6d (39.5%) £10,636 3s (60.5%)
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 %
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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