High Life Below Stairs (1759)

Author
James Townley
Work Type
Afterpiece
Genre
Farce
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
£31,339 2s 3d £3,602 13s 6d (11.5%) £27,736 8s 9d (88.5%)
1732 - 1809
£31,339 2s 3d - (100%) £3,602 13s 6d (11.5%) £27,736 8s 9d (88.5%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
247 16 231
1732 - 1809
247 16 231
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
24 Jan 1788 Drury Lane King Lear, High Life below Stairs No No No £233 7s 47% N/A
26 Feb 1788 Drury Lane Love In The East, High Life below Stairs No No No £170 17s 42% N/A
14 Apr 1788 Covent Garden Much Ado About Nothing, High Life below Stairs, Masquerade Dance, Ally Croaker, New Divertisement No No Yes £296 19s 6d 59% N/A
15 Apr 1788 Drury Lane Artaxerxes, High Life below Stairs No No No £222 3s 6d 57% N/A
21 Apr 1788 Covent Garden All In The Wrong, High Life below Stairs, Leap Year No No No £149 10s 6d 48% N/A
23 May 1788 Drury Lane Every Man In His Humour, High Life below Stairs, The Conjugal Frolick, Ma Chere Amie No No Yes £261 18s 33% N/A
04 Oct 1788 Drury Lane Twelfth Night, High Life below Stairs, The Slave in Love, Mock Minuet No No No £236 16s 100% N/A
16 Oct 1788 Drury Lane Macbeth, High Life below Stairs No No No £267 13s 6d 54% N/A
16 Dec 1788 Drury Lane Isabella, High Life below Stairs, Epithalamium No No No £171 8s 54% N/A
09 Jan 1789 Drury Lane The Confederacy, High Life below Stairs No No No £142 18s 46% N/A
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