Such Things Are (1787)

Author
Elizabeth Inchbald
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
£6,820 14s £6,820 14s (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£6,820 14s - (100%) £6,820 14s (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
35 35 0
1732 - 1809
35 35 0
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
24 Apr 1793 Covent Garden Such Things Are, The Soldier's Festival or The Night before the Battle, The Reprisal or The Tars of Old England, The Mid Watch, God Save the King, Rule Britannia No No Yes £320 14s 60% N/A
28 May 1796 Covent Garden Such Things Are, Arrived at Portsmouth, Rosina, Highland Festivity, We've Bade the Restless Seas Adieu, Here We Laugh and Work Together, O Why to be Happy, Rule Brittania, The Seaman Who of Wars May Tell, When Love was a Stranger, With Pride We Steer's for England's Coast, With Rosabel What Joy to Stray No No Yes £236 2s 6d 39% N/A
28 May 1798 Covent Garden Such Things Are, Starboard Watch, Harlequin and Faustus or The Devil will have his Own, The High Mettled Racer, Performances on the Slack Rope, Patents All the Rage, The Beggar, The Wind Blew Fresh and Fair No No Yes £288 18s 44% N/A
26 Apr 1804 Covent Garden Such Things Are, Love a-la-Mode No No Yes £226 13s 55% N/A
07 Jun 1806 Covent Garden Such Things Are, We Fly by Night No No Yes £391 15s 6d N/A N/A
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