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 %
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
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