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
21 Apr 1784 Drury Lane The Chapter Of Accidents, A Fete, Too Civil by Half, A Soldier for Me, The Minuet de la Cour, Allemande No No Yes £97 19s 6d 47% N/A
03 May 1786 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, The Nunnery, The Drunken Sailor Reclaimed No No Yes £303 14s 6d 47% N/A
22 May 1786 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, An Harmonic Jubilee, The Deserter No No Yes £182 11s 66% N/A
17 Apr 1787 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Three Weeks after Marriage, The Wapping Landlady, Lingo's Opinions on Men and Manners No No Yes £228 1s 50% N/A
18 May 1787 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, The Romp, A Dissertation on Hobby Horses No No Yes £172 15s 60% N/A
31 May 1790 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Harlequin's Chaplet, Four and Twenty Fiddlers All on a Row No No Yes £382 16s 6d 58% N/A
30 Apr 1791 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, The Quaker, Ode of Shakespeare (Garrick) No No Yes £217 2s 6d 45% N/A
02 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, Robin Hood No No Yes £376 12s 6d 19% N/A
14 Feb 1793 Drury Lane The Chapter Of Accidents, Tit for Tat No No No £201 1s 6d 37% N/A
26 Apr 1793 Drury Lane The Chapter Of Accidents, The Prize No No No £175 4s 39% N/A
25 Sep 1795 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, The Deserter No No No £248 3s 6d 100% N/A
14 Jan 1797 Drury Lane The Chapter Of Accidents, Richard Coeur de Lion No No No £121 14s 6d 23% N/A
29 May 1800 Covent Garden The Chapter Of Accidents, The Spoiled Child, The Hermione, Old Towler, Black Ey'd Susan, The Fight Off Camperdown No No Yes £410 4s 29% N/A
08 Jun 1802 Drury Lane The Chapter of Accidents, The Gentle Shepherd No No Yes £577 4s 6d 80% N/A
15 Oct 1805 Covent Garden The Chapter of Accidents, The Turnpike Gate, Dermot and Kathlane; or, The Irish Wedding No No No £163 18s 45% N/A

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