Abstract
ON 1 DECEMBER 1970, Theatre Workshop presented Joan Littlewood's production of a play, The Projector, at the Theatre Royal in Stratford East, London. This was announced as the first performance since the eighteenth century of a play by William Rufus Chetwood, formerly called The Mock Mason, which had been given for only one performance at Goodman's Fields on Friday, 13 April 1733. According to the program note, this ballad opera "seems to have been the only one to have been closed as a result of political pressure." A riot was said to have been caused by ruffians hired by a "Dutch builder, Cornelius Van Dort, who had been attacked in contemporary pamphlets as 'Tumbledown Dick' on account of the shoddiness of his tenement buildings." Then an account of a theatre riot is quoted from The Flying Post for 14 April 1733.
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