Event Type
Dramatic
Event Details
Troupe: Coefield
Venue Type: Theatre
Location: Portsmouth
County: Hampshire
Type: Dramatic
Venue: Theatre Royal, Portsmouth
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; |
Play, Comedy |
Bibliographic Sources
- 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”)