The Chapter of Accidents (1780)

Author
Sophia Lee
Work Type
Mainpiece
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
£3,207 18s £2,110 3s 6d (65.8%) £1,097 14s 6d (34.2%)
1732 - 1809
£3,207 18s - (100%) £2,110 3s 6d (65.8%) £1,097 14s 6d (34.2%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
25 18 7
1732 - 1809
25 18 7
Notes
First performed at the Haymarket. Based partly on Denis Diderot's 'Le Père de Famille' (1761).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
08 May 1781 Drury Lane The Chapter Of Accidents, The Young Actor, The Englishman in Paris, The Butterfly, The Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £207 18s 6d 57% N/A
23 Apr 1782 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Barnaby Brittle, Four and Twenty Fidlers All on a Row No No Yes £235 7s 69% N/A
29 Apr 1782 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Barnaby Brittle, Four and Twenty Fidlers All on a Row No No Yes £234 17s 77% N/A
11 May 1782 Drury Lane The Chapter Of Accidents, The Gentle Shepherd, The Distress'd Lovers No No Yes £201 5s 6d 45% N/A
17 May 1782 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, All the Worlds a Stage, Anticipation or Harlequin's Visit to Greenwich on Whit Monday (pantomimical dance), Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row, Rule Britannia No No Yes £259 3s 38% N/A
23 May 1782 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Retaliation, Frisk and Fun No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
07 Apr 1783 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, The Shamrock or The Anniversary of St Patrick, The Merry Sailors No No Yes £256 9s 73% N/A
02 May 1783 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Tom Thumb, Masquerade scene, Minuet No No Yes £182 14s 55% N/A
27 May 1783 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Tom Thumb, The Minuet de la Cour No No Yes £254 1s 23% N/A
18 Feb 1784 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, The Rival Knights, Rosina No No No £159 17s 37% N/A
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