[1] The original cast included William Barrymore as Osmond, Richard Wroughton as Reginald, Charles Kemble as Percy, John Palmer as Father Philip, John Bannister as Motley, James Aickin as Kenrick, William Dowton as Hassan, John Hayman Packer as Allan, George Wathen as Edric, Jane Powell as Evelina and Dorothea Jordan as Angela.

In a period when very few plays reached ten performances in a season, it was staged 47 times before June, when the theatre closed for the summer.

The play had a long run also in the following year and remained in the repertoire until the late 1820s, and was revived until the end of the century.

Further evidence of its extraordinary popularity is given by the fact that it crossed the ocean and opened in New York on 1 June 1798.

A new adaptation of this play by Phil Willmott was given its first performance at the Warehouse Theatre Croydon on 5 December 1997.