It was even possible for a spectator to see Hoadly's play at Covent Garden and then catch Macklin's related farcical afterpiece at the Drury Lane Theatre on the same night.
The tragedy and afterpiece were concluded full two hours before their regular time; and the cries for Mr. Kemble became so loud, that the manager thought proper to obey the summons.
The comedy of Munden in the afterpiece met with no better reception; not a word was listened to, and the curtain fell amid still increasing uproar and shouts of "Old prices!
The performances announced were the tragedy of "Macbeth" and the afterpiece of "The Quaker.
It was a matter of almost as much consequence to know what afterpiece was on the bill as what comedy.
He then pointed out to him the afterpiece it would be proper to produce on that occasion; adding, that doubtless it would recommend him to no usual degree of favor.
This particular afterpiece is worth reproducing not only for its catalogue of the social foibles of the age, but as an illustration of satirical writing for the stage at a time when dramatic taste often wavered toward the sentimental.
If all the marked lines were omitted, it is small wonder that this afterpiece was performed only once.
Even so there was an afterpiece to the play, for many folk made the conduct of this murderer a ground for a most unfair attack on the Patriarch of the Chaldaean Church, saying, "Now we see what sort of Christian Mar Immanuel trains.
There was an afterpiece to the play; what had very nearly been a tragedy developing into something resembling a farce.
Stock plays were always followed by an afterpiece, but the afterpiece was in most cases omitted during the first run of a new play.
There was a very full house at night, and the play went off as well as it could, and so did the afterpiece up to the time when the last scene should have been displayed; but here the stage-manager discovered his mistake too late.
On this fateful date, the feature had been completed and the afterpiece was being enacted.
The entertainment in the theater usually consisted of a prologue, a feature play, a short afterpiece and, sometimes, singing or dancing.
