Two Strings to Your Bow (1791)

Author
Robert Jephson
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
£13,221 12s 6d £9,006 5s (68.1%) £4,215 7s 6d (31.9%)
1732 - 1809
£13,221 12s 6d - (100%) £9,006 5s (68.1%) £4,215 7s 6d (31.9%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
48 33 15
1732 - 1809
48 33 15
Notes
Altered from Jephson's 'The Hotel; or, The Servant with Two Masters' (1783?), itself altered from Carlo Goldoni's 'Il Servitore di Due Padroni' (1746).
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
16 Feb 1791 Covent Garden The Widow Of Malabar, Two Strings to Your Bow, A Divertisement No No No £210 3s 6d 51% N/A
18 Feb 1791 Covent Garden Isabella, Two Strings to Your Bow, The Wapping Landlady, Epithalamium No No No £174 17s 6d 40% N/A
21 Feb 1791 Covent Garden The Belle's Stratagem, Two Strings to Your Bow No Yes No £372 14s 61% N/A
23 Feb 1791 Covent Garden The Widow Of Malabar, Two Strings to Your Bow, A Divertisement No No No £170 19s 57% N/A
26 Feb 1791 Covent Garden The Woodman, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £243 2s 52% N/A
08 Mar 1791 Covent Garden The Woodman, Two Strings to Your Bow No No Yes £227 11s N/A N/A
05 Apr 1791 Covent Garden Lorenzo, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £187 3s 54% N/A
13 Jun 1791 Covent Garden The Woodman, Tippoo Saib, Two Strings to Your Bow, Poor Orra Tink on Yanco Dear, The Gallant Soldier Born to Arms No No Yes £226 10s 6d 100% N/A
12 Oct 1792 Covent Garden The Conscious Lovers, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £246 11s 6d 100% N/A
07 Nov 1792 Covent Garden The Rivals, Two Strings to Your Bow No Yes No £419 1s 72% N/A
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