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    10806 The Dorset Garden Theatre in London, built in 1671, was in its early years also known as the Duke of York's Theatre, or the Duke's Theatre. In 1685...
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    had been arrested for high treason in 1681. It was staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The original cast included James Nokes as...
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  • the English writer Edward Ravenscroft. It was performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The original cast included Cave Underhill...
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    The King's Company's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane was unequipped to stage such effects. However, the "machine house" at Dorset Garden was appropriately equipped...
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  • earliest recorded performance of the play was on 3 July 1676 at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London. Staged by the Duke's Company the cast included Thomas...
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    to the stage in 1676 with the prestigious Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre, near the Strand in London. The next year Rupert established Hughes...
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    The Fairy-Queen was first performed on 2 May 1692 at the Queen's Theatre, Dorset Garden in London by the United Company. The author or at least co-author...
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    in her play, Forc'd Marriage, or The Jealous Bridegroom, at the Dorset Garden Theatre. However, due to severe stage fright, he gave an abysmal performance...
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  • mini-spectacle like The Emperor of the Moon. It was first staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the United Company. The original cast included Cave Underhill...
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  • Emperor Titus and the Jewish Queen Berenice. It premiered at the Dorset Garden Theatre, staged by the Duke's Company. It was inspired by Jean Racine's...
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    Dorset Garden Theatre, which was built slightly further south to a design by Christopher Wren. The theatre is commemorated by a plaque on the Dorset Rise...
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  • London. November 9 – The Duke's Company open their new venue, the Dorset Garden Theatre. Antoinette du Ligier de la Garde Deshoulières is awarded the first...
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  • at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London. The name's of the original cast are unknown. The published version was dedicated to the Duke of Dorset. It was...
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  • comedy play by the English writer Edward Ravenscroft. Staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company the original cast included Henry Norris as...
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    masque/play The Fairy Queen (1692), which had a successful run at the Dorset Garden Theatre, but was not revived. Richard Leveridge turned the Pyramus and Thisbe...
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    rival Sulla. It was originally staged by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London. The cast included Thomas Betterton as Caius Marius, Joseph...
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  • travelled to London, where his first stage appearance was with the Dorset Garden Theatre company, taking the part of a boy in The Counterfeits. By 1682 he...
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    Purcell scored a new staging of the play. It was performed at the Dorset Garden Theatre by the Duke's Company. The cast included Henry Harris as Rains,...
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    Alexandra Gardens Theatre was a theatre at Weymouth, Dorset, England. Originally known as the Alexandra Gardens Concert Hall, it was opened in 1924 and...
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    she was a member of the Drury Lane/Dorset Garden theatre company in London. At that time it was the only theatre company but a group left which included...
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  • (now lost) by Giovanni Battista Draghi. It was first performed at Dorset Garden Theatre, London on 27 February 1675 by the Duke's Company with choreography...
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  • Aphra Behn. It was first performed by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London with a cast that included William Smith as Wellman, Joseph...
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  • Virtuoso is a Restoration comedy by Thomas Shadwell, first produced at Dorset Garden Theatre in 1676 by The Duke's Company. Well received in its original production...
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  • earlier). The Loyal General, with a prologue by Dryden, played at the Dorset Garden Theatre in 1680. Tate then turned to making a series of adaptations of Elizabethan...
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  • play by the Irish writer Nahum Tate. It was first staged at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London by the United Company. It was a reworking of George Chapman...
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  • French play Scapin the Schemer by Molière. It premiered at the Dorset Garden Theatre performed by the Duke's Company as an afterpiece to Otway's new...
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    music for the play Abdelazer by Aphra Behn which premiered at the Dorset Garden Theatre on July 3, 1676. In Germany, the composers Georg Muffat, Johann...
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  • de Scudéry. It was first performed by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London. The original cast included Thomas Betterton as Solyman...
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  • La Fayette set during the sixteenth century. It premiered at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London, staged by the Duke's Company. The original cast included...
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    overtly political play. It was staged by the Duke's Company at the Dorset Garden Theatre in London with a cast that included Nell Gwyn as Lady Knowell, Anthony...
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