Sweetest Soprano of her time - Catherine Stephens, Viscountess of Wessex
“A Good Pit and Tolerable Galleries”. [Theatre Royal, Covent Garden]
Four playbills for 1813 with manuscript annotations regarding the evenings' production and audience attendance.
E. Macleish, 2, Bow Street, London 1813
Each playbill is annotated to verso in manuscript with details of the ‘house’ on that evening and performance running times.
1. Friday, November 12, 1813, the Comic Opera of The Duenna...annotated to verso ‘A Good House, 1/2 price at 1/2 past 8, Opera over at 35 past 9, and all concluded by 1/4 past Eleven O’Clock
2. Wednesday, November 17, 1813... Shakespear’s (sic) play Antony and Cleopatra with Alterations and Additions from Dryden...annotated to verso “Boxes bit thin until second account at 20 past 8 - A good pit and tolerable Galleries Play concluded at 1/4 before 10 and the Curtail fell at 1/4 after 11 O;Clock...Ashwin away
3. Friday, November 19, 1813... Shakespear’s (sic) play Antony and Cleopatra with Alterations and Additions from Dryden...annotated to verso “Boxes bit thin until second Price at 20 past 8 Pit good, Galleries indifferent Play over 1/4 before 10 and all finished by a 1/4 past Eleven O’Clock
4. Tuesday, Decemer 7. 1813...will be Acted the Comic Opera of Love in a Village...annotated to verso ”A Good House, 1/2 price 5 to 9, Opera Concluded 7 to 10 and all over by 1/4 past Eleven O’Clock. with Mr Roberts at the Pit Piazza Side.
Playbill[s], folio, 310 by 170mm (12¼ by 6¾ inches) approx each
£200
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