Two Strings to Your Bow (1791)

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
£15,018 11s 6d £10,803 4s (71.9%) £4,215 7s 6d (28.1%)
1732 - 1809
£15,018 11s 6d - (100%) £10,803 4s (71.9%) £4,215 7s 6d (28.1%)
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 %
13 Nov 1801 Covent Garden The Duenna, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £501 17s 6d 80% N/A
06 Feb 1802 Covent Garden Love in a Village, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £498 17s 69% N/A
25 Sep 1802 Drury Lane The Brothers, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £301 3s 6d 100% N/A
28 Sep 1802 Drury Lane Cymbeline, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £333 12s 6d 100% N/A
05 Oct 1802 Drury Lane The Rivals, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £162 3s 35% N/A
12 Oct 1802 Drury Lane King Henry the Fourth, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £333 48% N/A
05 Mar 1803 Covent Garden John Bull; or, An Englishman's Fire Side, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £364 17s 6d 50% N/A
07 Mar 1803 Drury Lane Hamlet, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £322 6d 43% N/A
28 Mar 1803 Covent Garden John Bull; or, An Englishman's Fire Side, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £489 8s 65% N/A
11 Jun 1803 Drury Lane The Confederacy, Two String to Your Bow No No Yes £85 18s 6d N/A N/A
04 Nov 1803 Drury Lane The Wife of Two Husbands, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £214 14s 46% N/A
28 Nov 1803 Covent Garden Macbeth, Two Strings To Your Bow No No No £432 12s 6d 70% N/A
20 Jun 1804 Covent Garden Wild Oats, Two Strings to your Bow No No Yes £506 19s 6d 100% N/A
18 Dec 1804 Covent Garden Thirty Thousand; or, Who's the Richest?, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £208 17s 6d 41% N/A
18 Jan 1805 Drury Lane The Rivals, Two Strings to Your Bow, Old Harlequin's Fire-side No No No £225 10s 35% N/A
18 Mar 1805 Drury Lane Hamlet, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £528 6s 75% N/A
14 Oct 1805 Drury Lane The Busy Body, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £164 12s 41% N/A
06 Nov 1805 Drury Lane The Siege of Belgrade, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £269 10s 61% N/A
27 Nov 1805 Covent Garden Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, The Wild Islanders; or, The Court of Pekin, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £289 17s 6d 50% N/A
10 Dec 1805 Drury Lane The School for Friends, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £229 3s 6d 60% N/A
24 Jan 1806 Drury Lane The Travellers; or, Music's Fascination, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £426 11s 55% N/A
24 Mar 1806 Drury Lane The Travellers, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £363 9s 6d 56% N/A
08 Nov 1806 Drury Lane The Haunted Tower, Oft on a Plat of Rising Ground, Two Strings to your Bow No No No £255 13s 6d 57% N/A