The Child of Nature (1788)

Author
Elizabeth Inchbald
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Romance
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
£15,651 14s £7,851 2s (50.2%) £7,800 12s (49.8%)
1732 - 1809
£15,651 14s - (100%) £7,851 2s (50.2%) £7,800 12s (49.8%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
76 44 32
1732 - 1809
76 44 32
Notes
Translated from the comtesse de Genlis's 'Zélie, ou l'Ingénue'.
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
03 Jun 1789 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, Poor Vulcan, The Midnight Hour No No Yes £176 17s 6d 58% N/A
12 Jun 1789 Covent Garden The Giant Defeated Or The Reward Of Valour, The Child of Nature, The Death of Captain Cook, Poor Thomas Day No No Yes £276 5s 63% N/A
06 Oct 1789 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, The Highland Reel, The Little Hunchback No No No £128 16s 6d 50% N/A
28 Jan 1790 Covent Garden The Poor Soldier, The Child of Nature, Harlequin's Chaplet No No No £185 19s 6d 47% N/A
27 Apr 1790 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, The Busy Body, Thomas and Sally No No Yes £379 43% N/A
17 May 1790 Covent Garden The Crusade, The Child of Nature No No No £170 1s 6d 43% N/A
07 Jan 1791 Covent Garden Rose And Colin, The Child of Nature, The Picture of Paris No No No £152 2s 33% N/A
18 Apr 1792 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, The Soldier's Festival or The Night before the Battle, The Intrigues of a Morning or An Hour in Paris, The Wives Revenged No No Yes £269 11s 6d 54% N/A
30 Oct 1794 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, Arrived at Portsmouth, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £203 5s 54% N/A
14 Mar 1795 Covent Garden The Child Of Nature, Crotchet Lodge, Oscar and Malvina No No No £181 12s 42% N/A
16 Apr 1795 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Agreeable Surprise, The Children in the Wood, The Little Farthing Rushlight No No Yes £681 8s 67% N/A
04 May 1795 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Old Maid, The Poor Soldier, In the dead of the night No No Yes £667 10s 6d 58% N/A
19 May 1795 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Prize, The Spoiled Child, When on Board Our Trim Vessel, The Cobler, The Shipwrecked Sailors, The Waggoner, When Bibo Went Down No No Yes £520 9s 6d 70% N/A
21 May 1795 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, My Grandmother, The Sultan No No Yes £392 15s 72% N/A
27 May 1795 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Sons of Anacreon, The Spoiled Child, Comus No No Yes £457 13s 67% N/A
02 Jun 1795 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, The Spoiled Child, No Song No Supper, Within a Mile of Edinburgh, I Never Lov'd Any Dear Mary But You, I That Once was a Ploughman a Sailor Am Now [By Dibdin], Sally in Our Alley No No Yes £669 6d 60% N/A
17 Nov 1795 Drury Lane The Child Of Nature, Lodoiska No No No £183 51% N/A
01 Dec 1795 Drury Lane The Spanish Barber, The Child of Nature, The Spoiled Child No No No £323 9s 66% N/A
08 Dec 1795 Drury Lane The Spanish Barber, The Child of Nature, The Spoiled Child No No No £284 12s 68% N/A
15 Dec 1795 Drury Lane The Spanish Barber, The Child of Nature, The Spoiled Child No No No £278 18s 67% N/A
22 Dec 1795 Drury Lane The Spanish Barber, The Child of Nature, The Spoiled Child No No No £250 12s 50% N/A
29 Dec 1795 Drury Lane The Spanish Barber, The Child of Nature, The Spoiled Child No No No £250 7s 6d 50% N/A
11 Feb 1796 Drury Lane No Song No Supper, The Child of Nature, Harlequin Captive No No No £369 10s 6d 49% N/A
20 Feb 1796 Drury Lane The Wedding Day, The Child of Nature, The Shepherdess of Cheapside No No No £398 8s 6d 56% N/A
10 Mar 1796 Drury Lane My Grandmother, The Child of Nature, The Prize No No No £282 3s 6d 58% N/A
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