False Appearances

False Appearances is a 1789 comedy play by the British politician and general Henry Seymour Conway, inspired by the 1740 French play Trompeurs Dehors by Louis de Boissy. It appeared at the Theatre [Royal, Drury Lane] in London on 20 April 1789. The Irish premiere took place at the Crow Street Theatre in Dublin on 13 July 1789 The original Drury Lane cast included John [Philip Kemble] as Marquis, Richard Wroughton as Baron, William Parsons as Governor, John Bannister as Abbé, Robert [Palmer |Robert Palmer] as Robert, Elizabeth Farren as Countess, Anna [Maria Crouch] as Lucile, Priscilla Kemble as Caelia and Jane Pope as Lisette. The epilogue was written by John Burgoyne.