| BARNSTAPLE: THE THEATRE |
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30 Oct 1820 | Variety performance |
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31 Oct 1820 | Love in the Village
Ways and Means |
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10 Nov 1820 | Benefit of Mrs. Foote
Belle's Stratagem
Young Hussar: or Love and Mercy |
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15 Nov 1820 | [Benefit of Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Fox] Town and Country
Forty Thieves |
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24 Sep 1852 | Used Up!
Right Thing
The Lottery Ticket |
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25 Sep 1852 | Crown Prince
Illustrious Stranger
The Cheap Excursion |
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17 Oct 1862 | Merry wives of Windsor
Used up. [Printed on silk] |
| BARNSTAPLE: THEATRE ROYAL |
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14 Sep 1852? | [Mr. H.Manley's English Opera Company]
Bohemian Girl
The Secret |
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15 Sep 1852? | Rose of Castille
The Silent Woman |
| DAWLISH: ROYAL HOTEL ASSEMBLY ROOMS |
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7 May 1873 | Still Waters Run Deep
The Irish Tutor |
| DEVONPORT: THEATRE ROYAL. |
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25 July 1836 | [Benefit of Mr. Anddizon]
John Overy:or The Miser of Southwark Ferry
Unfinished Gentleman
Uncle John. |
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17 Aug 1836 | Great Address Miss Jarman
The Ocean of Life:or Every Inch a Sailor
The Loan of a Lover. |
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25 Oct 1836 | Hoffer: The Tell of the Tyrol
Open House. |
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26 Oct 1836 | Open House. |
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11 Nov 1836 | Dumb Girl of Genoa: or The Mountain Robber
The Sea: or The Ocean Child. |
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16 Nov 1836 | Bronze House: or The Spell of the Cloud King
Hoffer: or The Tell of the Tyrol. |
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18 Nov 1836 | Bronze House.
Day after the Fair.
Jonathan Bradford: or The Murder at the Roadside Inn |
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7 Dec 1836 | [Benefit of Miss Jarman]
Wood Demon: or The Clock Has Struck.
Sergeant's Wife. |
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20 Feb 1837 | [Benefit of Mr. W.Keene]
Middy Ashore: or The Boatswain in Troubled Waters |
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23 Feb 1837 | Wandering Boys: or The Castle of Olival.
Why Don't She Marry?
Robert Macaire: or L'Auberge des Adrets. |
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10 Apr 1837 | [Benefit of Mr.Miller]
The Jew of Lubeck: or The Heart of the Father
The Golden Farmer: or The Last Crime |
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19 Apr 1837 | Brigand.
Vow of the Golden Cross. |
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28 Apr 1837 | [Benefit of Mrs.Woolgar]
William Tell: or The Swiss Patriot.
Hofer: the Tell of the Tyrol. |
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12 July 1837 | Jewess. |
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21 July 1837 | Jewess.
The Wandering Minstrel. |
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22 July 1837 | Jewess.
The Lady and the Devil. |
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3 Aug 1837 | [Benefit of Mrs.Elphinstone] Hunchback.
The Wedding Day. |
| EXETER: THE THEATRE |
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17 Nov 1756 | The Inconstant; or The Way to Win Him
The King and the Miller of Mansfield |
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23 Oct 1764 | The Busie-body
The Knights from the Land's End |
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9 Oct 1765 | The Wonder; a woman keeps a secret
Miss in her Teens |
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16 Oct 1765 | Zara
The Englishman in Paris |
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21 Oct 1765 | Love in the Village
The Mayor of Garrett |
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23 Oct 1765 | The Distressed Mother
The Contrivances |
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30 Oct 1765 | The Maid of the Mill |
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19 Nov 1765 | The Conscious Lovers
The Mistake: or The Wrangling Lovers |
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24 Jan 1769 | Cymbeline: King of Britain
19 Nov 1770 False Delicacy
Midas |
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12 Dec 1774 | Hamlet: Prince of Denmark
Comus |
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28 Feb 1777 | [Benefit of Mr Foote] Sir Thomas Overbury
New brooms: or The Young Managers Levee
The Two Misers |
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14 Apr 1777 | [Benefit of Mr Brown] The Hypocrite
The Clock Case: or The Free Masons wife's Curiosity
Neck or Nothing: or Harlequin's Flight From the Gods |
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28 Jan 1778 | [Benefit of Mr Davis] The Jealous Wife
The Way to Keep Him |
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2 Feb 1778 | The Fashionable Lover
The Waterman: or The First of August |
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4 Feb 1778 | Duenna; or The Double Discovery
The Romance of an Hour |
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6 Feb 1778 | Cymbeline
The Fairy Gambols; or Harlequine's Medley |
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9 Feb 1778 | Percy
St Patrick's Day: or The Scheming Lieutenant |
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16 Feb 1778 | [Benefit of Mr Jefferson] The School for Wives
Man of Quality |
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26 Jan 1780 | The West-Indian
The Camp |
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28 Jan 1780 | The Winter's Tale
Linco's Travel
The Waterman: or The First of August |
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12 Feb 1783 | The Lord of the Manor
The Lying Valet |
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14 Feb 1783 | The Lord of the Manor
Robinson Crusoe: or Harlequin Friday |
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19 Feb 1783 | King Henry IV.
Robinson Crusoe:or Harlequin Friday. |
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21 Feb 1783 | [Benefit of Mr Hughes] King John
The Agreeable Surprize |
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24 Feb 1783 | Editha: or The Siege of Exeter by the Danes
All the World is a Stage |
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28 Feb 1783 | [Benefit of Mr Jefferson]
The Academy: or A New Way of Beginning a Play
The Merchant of Venice
The Way to Keep Him |
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12 Aug 1783 | The Castle of Andalusia
Love-a-la-mode |
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13 Aug 1783 | The Castle of Andalusia
The Way to Keep Him |
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14 Apr 1784 | [Benefit of Miss Clarke]
Zara: or The Fall of Osman, Sultan of Jerusalem
The Agreeable Surprise |
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11 June 1784 | [Benefit of Mrs Hillyard]
Miscellaneous "exhibitions" of acrobatics etc. |
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16 Jan 1793 | The Rivals
The Irish Widow |
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4 Mar 1793 | [Benefit of Mr Hughes] Everyone has his fault.
Tippoo Saib: the British army triumphant in the East- Indies |
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27 Mar 1810 | The way to get married
My grandmother: or The village barber.
The Review: or Wags of Windsor. |
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28 Jan 1812 | Douglas: or The Noble Shepherd.
Turnpike Gate. |
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18 Feb 1812 | Wheel of Fortune.
Blue Devils. |
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18 Mar 1812 | The Merchant of Venice
Cinderella: or The Little Glass Slipper. |
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16 Oct 1812 | Benefit of Mrs.Jordon.
The Way To Keep Him.
The Devil Do Pay. |
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2 Aug 1870 | Nine Points of the Law.
Ill Treated Il Trovatore. |
| EXETER: THEATRE ROYAL. |
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16 Jan 1829 | The Contest: or Who Shall Win? |
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29 Apr 1833 | [Benefit of Mrs. Frances] Jesus Christ
Church-yard Yew: or Mary,the Maid of the Sun. |
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25 Jan 1836 | [Benefit of Mr. Kean] Richard III.
Bee-hive: or Lots of Fun. |
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14 Apr 1836 | Variety Show by the Ravel Family. |
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20 Apr 1836 | The Jewess. |
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22 Apr 1836 | The Jewess. |
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11 Dec 1837 | Fin Crow: or the Flight to America.
Matrimony.
Warlock of the Green. |
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19 Dec 1837 | The Idiot Witness: or Paul the Ferryman. |
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20 Dec 1837 | Rory O'More.
The Village Lawyer.
George Barnwell. |
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22 Dec 1837 | The Wedding Day.
A Rowland for an Oliver.
High Life Below Stairs. |
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8 Jan 1838 | She Stoops to Conquer.
Jack and the Beanstalk: or Harlequin and the Ogre. |
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10 Jan 1838 | Green-eyed Monster.
Popping the question
Unfinished Gentleman |
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29 Jan 1838 | [Benefit of Mrs.Gratton]
Rebel-chief: or a Tale of the Irish Rebellion.
£100 Note |
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8 Jan 1838 | (Pantomime) She stoops to conquer
Jack and the Beanstalk |
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10 Jan 1838 | [Patronage of The Mayor of St. Sidwell]
Green-eyed Monster
Popping the question
Unfinished Gentleman |
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29 Jan 1838 | [Benefit of Mr.Gratton] Rebel chief |
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12 Mar 1838 | [Benefit of Mrs. Waylett] Loves of the stars
Four sisters |
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? Ma? 183? | [Benefit of Mr Hays Esmeralda the Gipsy, or the
deformed bellringer of Notre Dame
The man with the carpet bag
The wonderful menagerie: or bears not beasts |
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12 Aug 1839 | [Guest Singers Miss Romer and Mr. Templeton]
La Sonnambula
The Omnibus: or a convenient distance. |
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19 Mar 1844 | [Benefit of Mrs.Waylett] Naval Engagements.
West Country Wooing
Merry Month of May (Ballet) |
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18 Oct 1855 | [English Opera Company]
Norma (Act 1)
La Challet
Bohemian Girl Act 2 and 3 |
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4 Mar 1856 | [Benefit of Miss Deville and Mr. Macarte]
Siege of Exeter By the Danes.
Masks and Fares.
Is She a Woman? |
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11 Mar 1862 | House on the Bridge of Notre Dame.
Holly Bush Hall.
(On the back).
Esmeralda: or the Hunch-back of Notre Dame.
Lord Darvey: or The Keep of Castle Hill.
Muleteer of Toledo: or King,Queen and Knave. |
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c.1860 | London by Night.
Mr. and Mrs. White.
An Object of Interest.
Mutiny at the Nore: or Sailors of 1797.
Love Chase.
Dancing Barber.
Sicilian Pirate: or the castle of Aldobrand. |
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31 Aug 1868? | Hero of Romance.
Sarah's Young Man.
Turn Him Out.(1 Sept).
Goose With the Golden Egg.(2 Sept). |
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5 Sep 1887 | Romany Rye.
Mother-in-Law.(12 Sept). |
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Feb 188-? | (Pantomime) Beauty and the Beast. |
| ROYAL SUBSCRIPTION ROOMS (EXETER). |
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12 May 1852 | Elijah: Mendelsson. |
| EXETER THEATRE GUILD (At Civic Hall). |
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1951 | Beggars' Opera, J.Gay. |
| EXMOUTH: THEATRE |
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22 Jan 1852 | [Patron T.Cobham] Flowers of the forest
Rival valets |
| ILFRACOMBE : ASSEMBLY ROOMS. |
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12 Aug 1870 | Nine points of the law
Ill treated Il Trovatore |
| IPPLEPEN : MR. WINSOR'S ROOM. |
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28 Jun 1791 | Fashionable variety [variety show] |
| NEWTON ABBOT |
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3 Dec 1789 | Hamlet: Prince of Denmark. |
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3 Dec 1790 | [Pupils of Mr.Weatherdon's school] Julius Caesar |
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12 Dec 1791 | [Pupils of Mr.Weatherdon's school] Caractacus |
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10 Dec 1792 | [Pupils of Mr.Weatherdon's school] Timon of Athens |
| PAIGNTON: ROYAL BIJOU THEATRE. |
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12&13 Feb 1874 | Porter's Knot. |
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14 Feb 1874 | Wonderful Woman.
Lady of Lyons Travestie. |
| PLYMOUTH: THEATRE ROYAL. |
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1-5 June 1828? | [Principal actress Miss Foster] Home Sweet Home.
Little Jockey.
Much Ado About Nothing. |
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9 Mar 1827? | [Principal actor Mr. Sinclaire]
Rob Roy: or Auld Lang Syne
The Review: or The Ways of Windsor |
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24 Mar 1827 | [Benefit of Mr.Slater] Pizarro: or The Death of Rolla.
Monsieur Tonson. |
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29 Mar 1827? | John Bull.
Irishman in London. |
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| [All Plymouth playbills for 1840 and 1841 are photocopies of the
originals in Plymouth Local Studies Library] |
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15 Jun 1840 | [Last appearance Mr & Mrs C.Hill] Capers & coronets
Jack Sheppard |
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17 Jun 1840 | [Last appearance Mr. & Mrs Charles Hill] Jack Sheppard
Black-eyed Susan |
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9 Jul 1840 | [Benefit of Mr. Elsgood] Battle of Hexham
Grecian statues
Fortune's frolic |
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12 Aug 1840 | [Benefit of Mdlle. Adelaide O'Bryan] The robber's wife
Madeline
The Eddystone elf |
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27 Aug 1840 | Rob Roy
Man and the tiger
L'amour et la jalousie |
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24 Sep 1840 | [Benefit of Mr. Collins] Fra Diavolo
Paul Clifford |
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7 Oct 1840 | [Benefit of Mr. J. & Misses Dawson] Bronze horse
Tom & Jerry |
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12 Oct 1840 | Bronze horse
Turnpike gate |
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14 Oct 1840 | The vow of the golden cross
A day after the fair
Tom and Jerry |
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21 Nov 1840 | [French Company] Les enrages
Estelle
Psee minuit |
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30 Nov 1840 | [French Company] Les brodequins de Lise
Demoiselle et la dame
Philtre champenois |
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3 Dec 1840 | [French company] Les enrages
La demoiselle et la dame
Les anglaises pour rire |
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11 Jan 1841 | Black-eyed Susan
The miller and his men |
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23 Mar 1841 | [Last night by 3 of Julia Cruise] The somnambulist
Loan of a lover |
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24 Mar 1841 | [Last night but 2 of Julia Cruise] The wedding day
Our Mary Anne |
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22 Jun 1841 | [2nd appearance of Mrs. Warner] The stranger
The weathercock |
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1 Jul 1841 | Douglas
Mary Stuart |
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5 Jul 1841 | [Benefit of Mrs. Warner] The jealous wife
The Irish tutor |
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8 Jul 1841 | George Barnwell
Black-eyed Susan |
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2 Aug 1841 | English operatic performers |
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2 Aug 1841 | Black-eyed Susan
The King's gardener |
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4 Aug 1841 | [Patronage of Royal Western Yacht Club] Single life
The wandering minstrel |
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6 Aug 1841 | Lucille or, a story of a heart
The man about town |
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10 Aug 1841 | [First race night] Married life
The wandering minstrel |
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11 Aug 1841 | La somnambula
Uncle John |
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14 Aug 1841 | La somnambula |
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23 Aug 1841 | [Benefit of Mr. Wilson] Fra Diavolo
Cramond Brig |
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24 Aug 1841 | Fra Diavolo
Cramond Brig |
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25 Aug 1841 | [Benefit of Mr. George Stansbury] Love in a village
Teddy the tiler |
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15 Oct 1841 | [Benefit of Henry O'Connell] His last legs
Everybody's husband
The Irish lion |
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28 Oct 1841 | The dancing barber: or, legs v. arms
Three and the deuce
The pilot |
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5 Nov 1841 | [Benefit of Eleanor & Anna Cruise] Therese
My husband's ghost |
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2 Jan 1857 | Damon and Pythias: or Love and Friendship. |
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3 Jan 1857 | George Barnwell: or The London Merchant. |
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8 Jan 1857 | Lord Lovelle and ye Lodge Naucie. |
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14 Aug 1857 | La Somnambula - Bellini's Opera.
Sleeping Draught. |
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22 Oct 1861 | Don Giovanni - Mozart. |
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23 Oct 1861 | Lucrezia Borgia - Donizetti's.* |
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24 Oct 1861 | Le Trovatore - Verdi.* |
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25 Oct 1861 | Norma - Bellini's.* |
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* | *Farewell performances by Madame Grisi. |
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29 Aug -1Sept 1866 | The Serf: or love levels all.
Paris: or vive Lempriere. |
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12 Sept 1866 | Benefit of Mr. Southern.
David Garrick.
My aunt's advice. |
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13 Sept 1866 | The Serf: or love levels all.
No! |
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14 Sept 1866 | Ingomer the Barbarian.
All That Glitters is not Gold. |
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31 Dec 1866 | The Cavalier.
Harlequin and the demon huntsman: or The Rifle
Volunteers of the Hertz mountain. |
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25 Mar 1867 | Benefit of Madlle Ferna Stussy.
Faces in the fire.
Ernani. |
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27 Mar 1867 | Leah.
Ernani: or The Horn of a Dilemma. |
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19&20 May 1875 | Talisman, or Plantagenet Preserved in a Salad in Pickle.
Fanchon the Cricket - guest appearance Miss Lizzie Willmore. |
| TEIGNMOUTH: ATHENAEUM |
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24 Nov 1863 | Old songs and modern songs [concert by Fourness Rolfe] |
| TIVERTON THEATRE. |
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16 Feb 1835 | Wonder, a Woman Keeps a Secret!
The Spectre Bridegroom: or A Ghost in Spite of Himself. |
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10 Mar 1835 | Benefit of Mr. Webb.
Spend-thrift: or Men and Manners.
Jonathan Bradford: or The Murder at the Roadside Inn. |
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12 Jan 1844 | Woman's Love: or Kate Winsey the Cottage Girl.
Don Juan the Libertine: or The Spectre Statue. |
| TORQUAY THEATRE. |
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1 Oct 1827 | Douglas: or The Noble Shepherd.
Turnpike Gate. |
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6 Oct 1827 | Luke the Labourer: or The Lost Son.
Rival Valets.
Bombastes Furioso. |
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16 Oct 1827 | The Point of Honour.
Is he Jealous? |
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20 Oct 1827 | Bertram: or The Castle of St.Aldobrand.
Fortunes Frolic: or The Ploughman turned Lord. |
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22 Oct 1827 | Pizarro: or The Death of Rolla.
Thirteen to a Dozen. |
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23 Oct 1827 | Heir at Law.
Thirteen to a Dozen. |
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25 Oct 1827 | The Stranger.
Deaf as a Post. |
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27 Oct 1827 | Tribulation: or Unwelcome Visitors.
Blue Devils.
The Turnpike Gate. |
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29 Oct 1827 | Guy Mannering: or The Gypsey's Prophecy.
The Magpie: or The Maid. |
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31 Oct 1827 | Benefit of Miss R.Cooke.
Castle Spectre.
Love Laughts at Locksmiths. |
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2 Nov 1827 | Benefit of Mr. Curling.
William Tell: or The Liberator of Switzerland.
Thirteen to a Dozen. |
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7 Nov 1827 | Benefit of Mr. Adamson.
John Bull: or an Englishman's Fireside.
Devil to Pay. |
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14 Nov 1827 | Benefit of Mr. Cooke.
Vampire: or The Bride of the Isles.
Simpson and Co. |
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20 Nov 1827 | Benefit of Mr.Murray.
Advertisement for Patronage. |
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No date | Jumbo Fun - One night performance by Mr.T.D.Rice. |
| TORQUAY: LYCEUM (THEATRE ROYAL). |
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4&5 Dec 1857? | Jessy Vere: or The Return of the Wanderer.
Ganem, the slave of love. |
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24 Dec 1878 | Dick Wittington and his Curley Cat. |
| TORQUAY: ROYAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS. |
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19 Mar 185-? | Benefit of Miss Nelly Parker.
Checkmate.
Delicate Ground. |
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| UFFCULME |
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18 Dec 1860 | Ticklish Times.
In for a Holiday. |
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| MISCELLANEA |
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| LONDON: THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. |
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29 Apr 1782 | The Wonder. |
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| LONDON: THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. |
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6 May 185-? | Guy Mannering.
Caliph of Bagdad (act 2). |
| LONDON: ROYAL ENGLISH OPERA,COVENT GARDEN. |
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28 Nov & 3 Dec
185-? | Rose of Castile. |
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29 Nov & 1 Dec
185-? | Dinorah. |
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30 Nov 185-? | Crown Diamonds. |
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2 Dec 185-? | Satanella. |
| EXHIBITIONS, FETES. |
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- | Cole's Regal Circus Exeter (near the new subscription rooms). |
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- | Display of the "Real Mummy of the Illustrious Queen of Sheba". |
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1880 | Easter Fair Exeter (long list of varied attractions). |
| SPOOF PLAYBILLS. |
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c.1860 | Th Challenge ... accepted by Indian Juggler Priggs
[Place unknown]. |
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1 Apr 1857 | Theatre Royal Ide - Lucky Beggar. |
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18--? | Board Theatre St.Thomas - Aladdin, the Act of a Friend,
or the Wonderful Lamp of St. Thomas. |
| THEATRE PROGRAMMES |
| These are as yet unsorted. The following were found with the playbills: |
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28 Mar 1887 | Theatre Royal, Exeter |
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29 Oct 1923 | Theatre Royal, Exeter |
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3 Oct 1892 | Exeter Working Men's Club |
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12 Oct 18--? | Exeter Working Men's Club. |
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- | Plan of circle and dress circle for Theatre Royal Exeter. |
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