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 %
19 Dec 1792 Covent Garden Columbus, Two Strings to Your Bow No Yes No £474 8s 71% N/A
03 May 1793 Covent Garden The Road To Ruin, To Arms or The British Recruit, Two Strings to Your Bow, The Sea Storm No No Yes £450 2s 47% N/A
08 Jun 1793 Covent Garden The Duenna, Two Strings to your Bow No No Yes £359 10s 100% N/A
11 Nov 1793 Covent Garden Romeo And Juliet, Two Strings to Your Bow, Solemn Dirge, When in War on the Ocean No No No £249 16s 6d 100% N/A
23 Nov 1793 Covent Garden The World In A Village, Two Strings To Your Bow No No No £313 1s 6d 100% N/A
04 Dec 1793 Covent Garden The World In A Village, Two Strings To Your Bow, The Drunken Swiss, Rule Britannia No Yes No £489 12s 6d 100% 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
31 Jan 1795 Covent Garden The Mysteries Of The Castle, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £243 12s 53% N/A
13 Jun 1795 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, Two Strings to Your Bow No No Yes £409 10s 100% N/A
09 Dec 1796 Covent Garden Abroad And At Home, Two Strings to Your Bow No No No £149 9s 49% N/A
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