The Commissary (1765)

Author
Samuel Foote
Work Type
Afterpiece
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
£5,198 10s 6d £5,198 10s 6d (100%) £0 (0%)
1732 - 1809
£5,198 10s 6d - (100%) £5,198 10s 6d (100%) £0 (0%)
Total Performances
Covent Garden
Drury Lane
45 45 0
1732 - 1809
45 45 0
Theatre
Mainpiece/afterpieces
Years
1732
1809
Most common pairings

Performances

Dates Theatre Performances Requested Commands Benefit Revenue Available Revenue % Capacity %
27 May 1773 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Commissary, The Irish Lilt No No Yes £282 16s 6d 53% N/A
22 Oct 1773 Covent Garden She Stoops To Conquer Or The Mistakes Of A Night, The Commissary No No No £123 13s 6d 34% N/A
05 Nov 1773 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Commissary Yes No No £122 6s 6d 47% N/A
11 Dec 1773 Covent Garden King Henry II Or The Fall Of Rosamond, The Commissary No No No £116 8s 32% N/A
18 Dec 1773 Covent Garden The Inconstant, The Commissary, The Old Ground Young No No Yes £216 5s 51% N/A
22 Apr 1774 Covent Garden The Beggar's Opera, The Commissary No No Yes £200 9s 6d 62% N/A
02 May 1774 Covent Garden The Rival Queens, The Commissary, Hippisley's Drunken Man, The Old Ground Young No No Yes £184 2s 70% N/A
14 May 1774 Covent Garden The Maid Of The Mill, The Commissary, Minuet, Hornpipe No No Yes £198 2s 54% N/A
20 May 1774 Covent Garden The Stratagem, The Commissary, Hornpipe, Comic Dance, Cotillons, Minuet No No Yes £188 13s 61% N/A
25 May 1774 Covent Garden The Revenge, The Commissary, The Pilgrim, Collins's Ode on the Passions No No Yes £85 16s 6d 37% N/A
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