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 %
22 Feb 1797 Covent Garden A Cure For The Heart Ache, Bantry Bay, The Deaf Lover No No No £270 12s 56% N/A
11 Nov 1797 Drury Lane The Confederacy, A Trip to the Nore, The Deaf Lover No No No £257 17s 54% N/A
10 Nov 1798 Covent Garden Lovers' Vows, The Deaf Lover, The Mouth of the Nile No No No £382 5s 65% N/A
25 May 1799 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Deaf Lover No No No £301 3s 78% N/A
04 Jan 1800 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Deaf Lover No No No £460 8s 66% N/A
04 Nov 1800 Drury Lane The Brothers, The Deaf Lover, Actaeon and Diana No No No £157 14s 6d 33% N/A
17 Nov 1800 Drury Lane Pizarro, The Deaf Lover No No No £414 13s 56% N/A
24 Nov 1801 Drury Lane The Duenna, The Deaf Lover No No No £415 12s 6d 64% N/A
22 Apr 1802 Drury Lane Fashionable Friends, The Deaf Lover No No No £344 1s 6d 53% N/A
29 Mar 1803 Covent Garden John Bull; or, An Englishman's Fire Side, The Deaf Lover No No No £461 15s 71% N/A
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