Play: Epicene

Theatre City:Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London

Date:13 Jan. 1776

Company: His Majesty's Company of Comedians

Principal Manager: David Garrick

Principal Actors:Bensley (Morose), Palmer (Truewit), King (Sir Amorous), Yates (Otter), Parsons (Sir John Daw), Baddeley (Cutbeard), Brereton (Dauphine), Davies (Clerimont), Mrs Hopkins (Mrs Otter), Miss Sherry (Lady Haughty), Mrs Davies (Centaure), Miss Platt (Doll), Mrs Millidge (Trusty), Mrs Siddons (Epicene)

Source Or Contemporary Comment: William Smith to George Colman, 8 Aug. 1773, and Garrick to Colman, 20 Dec. 1774, in G. Colman (1820), 185-6, 303; R. B. Peake ( 1841), 1.390; Public Advertiser , 16 Dec. 1775 and 13, 15 Jan. 1776; Gentleman's Magazine , 46 (1776), 87-8; Morning Post and Daily Advertiser , 15 Jan. 1776; Westminster Magazine , Jan. 1776, 30; London Magazine , 45 (1776), 48-9

London Stage Reference:Part 4: 1944