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Coefield, 20 Jan. 1842 -20 Jan. 1842, Hampshire

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Event Type

Dramatic

Event Details

Troupe: Coefield
Venue Type: Theatre
Location: Portsmouth
County: Hampshire
Type: Dramatic
Venue: Theatre Royal, Portsmouth

Date

-
Date notes
Friday


Casting

Event Program

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Title Performed Person / Troupe Notes Type
Laugh When you Can Coefield Coefield
Casting;
  • Gossamer – Mr. Elphinstone;
  • Bonus – Mr. Hambleton;
  • Mortimer – Mr. Mead;
  • Charles Mortimer – Miss Hambleton;
  • Sambo – Mr. Coefield;
  • Delville – Mr. White;
  • Costly – Mr. Powell;
  • Gregory – Mr. H. Powell;
  • Waiter – Mr. Johnson;
  • Emily – Miss O’Connor;
  • Mrs. Mortimer – Miss Murray;
  • Dorothy – Mrs. Powell;
  • Miss Gloomly – Mrs. Jeffreson
    		• Play, Comedy

    Bibliographic Sources

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    • Portsmouth Central Library, Historical Collections Playbill (TR Portsmouth) - January 20, 1842:
      Info in Record:
      • Performance Type: Dramatic
      • Performers Listed: Sambo: “Mr. Coefield.” For remainder of cast, see attached document scan.
      • Days & Times: “Friday, January the 20th, 1842”
      • Venue Name: “Theatre Royal, Portsmouth”
      • Other Acts on Bill: “Delineations from Collins’s ‘Ode on the Passions’, embodying a series of beautiful Tableaux Vivans” (2nd), “A Comic Song by Mr. Coefield; A Comic Dance by Mr. Johnson; and Two New Comic Songs by Mr. Hambleton”
      • Program Info: “Reynolds’s celebrated and fashionable Comedy, in five acts, entitled Laugh when you can!” (1st on bill). Also, (other race-related): “the popular Grand Eastern Spectacle, taken from the Arabian Nights’ Entertainment, called the 40 Thieves!” (3rd). The 1st Tableau of the Tableaux Vivans also includes an “Indian Woman.”
      • Other: benefit, performance time, ticket info, other (venue practices – e.g. “Children in arms are never admitted”)