Colley Cibber was not well received. In the middle of the play, he whispered to fellow actor Benjamin Victor that he wanted to go home, perhaps realising he was too old for the part and its physical demands. Cibber also essayed tragic parts in plays by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Dryden and others, but with less success. By the end of his acting career, audiences were being entranced by the innovatively naturalistic acting of the rising star David Garrick, who made his London debut in the title part in a production of Cibber's adaptation of "Richard III" in 1741. He returned to
Scottish literature in the eighteenth century John (or James) Baille's political farce "Patriotism" in 1763, and Andrew Eskine's cross-dressing love farce "She's Not Him, He's Not Her" in 1764. The British government granted the first licence to a Scottish theatre under the act in 1767 as part of the plans for the building of the New Town in Edinburgh. The new Theatre Royal opened in 1769. In Perth it was 1780 before theatre was properly produced. As late as 1784, the council of Dundee prevented a company from Edinburgh from entering the town. In the later eighteenth century, many plays were written for and performed by