The Road to Ruin (1792)

Author
Thomas Holcroft
Work Type
Mainpiece
Genre
Comedy
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
£23,363 3s £22,994 8s (98.4%) £368 15s (1.6%)
1732 - 1809
£23,363 3s - (100%) £22,994 8s (98.4%) £368 15s (1.6%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
91 90 1
1732 - 1809
91 90 1
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
15 Oct 1800 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, Robin Hood No No No £289 15s 6d 100% N/A
06 Jun 1801 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, The Sea-side Story No No Yes £458 18s 6d 29% N/A
24 Oct 1801 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, The Escapes; or, The Water Carrier No No No £200 11s 6d 52% N/A
08 Jun 1802 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, The Deserter of Naples, The Ghost No No Yes £440 6d 20% N/A
31 Dec 1802 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, Harlequin's Habeas; or, the Hall of Spectres No No No £267 11s 51% N/A
06 Jun 1803 Drury Lane The Road to Ruin, If you wou'd, so wou'd not I, Lethe, Black Knights No No Yes £368 15s 56% N/A
08 Jun 1803 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, The Poor Soldier No No Yes £431 5s N/A N/A
29 May 1805 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, A Peep Behind the Curtain; or, an Opera Rehearsed, Out of Place, The Escapes; or, The Water Carrier, Black-Eyed Susan, The Thorn No No Yes £255 42% N/A
13 Jun 1805 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, Fortune's Frolic No No Yes £487 N/A N/A
15 May 1807 Covent Garden Road to Ruin, Which is the Master No No Yes £606 11s 56% N/A
09 Oct 1807 Covent Garden Road to Ruin, Of Age Tomorrow No No No Unknown N/A N/A
16 Oct 1807 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, Of Age Tomorrow No No No Unknown N/A N/A
10 Nov 1807 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, Harlequin and Mother Goose No No No Unknown N/A N/A
09 Jun 1808 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, Oak and the Ivy; or The Origin of a British Tar, Oscar and Malvina No No Yes Unknown N/A N/A
18 Jun 1808 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, Of Age Tomorrow No No No Unknown N/A N/A
25 Jun 1808 Covent Garden The Road to Ruin, The Child of Nature No No No Unknown N/A N/A
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