On Monday Evening next, Will be performed ... a Comic Entertainment, extracted from the Play of the Register Office To which will be added a New Pantomime called Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday ... Between the Play & Farce will be Exhibited a Currious dwarf Dance, by two Lilliputian Gentlemen ... Mrs. Dumoulin will dance in the Character of a Drunken Country Clown The whole to conclude with an Epilouge ...

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A handwritten playbill for an evening's entertainment in Fayetteville, North Carolina at the end of the 18th-century.

"Fayetteville in North Carolina" -- appears at the top of the page in a different hand from the body of the text.

Fayetteville, in North Carolina

On Saturday ^Monday Evening next,
Will be Performed at the Theatre for the Benefit of Messrs
Busselot and Dumoulin a Comic Entertainment, extracted from
the Play of the Merchant of Venice Register Office
To which will be added a New Pantomime called
Robinson Crusoe, or Harlequin Friday:
Representing Robinson Crusoe in his varrious Situations, while
he lived eight & twenty years in an unihabited Island, in
South America, with Elegant new Scenery and Decorations.

Act 1th.. will Discover the Oceans and the outside of
Robinsons house, thro.' a grove
Act.. 2d.. The arrival of the Savages on his Island,
in Cannoes, the great war Dance, by eight Indians,
and the Resque of Friday by Crusoe. ...
Act 3d... The Inside of Robinson's house, with
a view of his furniture & Provisions, and his
Reception of Friday
Act 4th,, The Arrival of the French national frigate
La' Ambuscade, with fireing of Cannon &.c.
Between the Play & farce will be Exhibited
a Currious dwarf Dance, by two Lilliputian
Gentlemen, brought to America by Captain.. Gullitean
Mrs.,, Dumoulin will dance in the Character of
a Drunken Country Clown
The whole To conclude with an Epilouge,
Addressed to every body, not aimed at any body
to be Spoken by Somebody in the Character
of Nobody.

B.. Tickets 7/6 Pitt 5/ to be had at Drewry
Lane = Theatre

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