John Duruset

John Duruset (1793–1843) was a British stage actor and singer.^[1][2] He is also known as Jack Duruset and John Durousset. Born in London and showing a gift, he was apprenticed to the Italian composer and music teacher Domenico Corri. An early role came in Theodore Hook's The Siege of St Quintin (1808) at Drury Lane.^[3] Following the Drury Lane Fire of 1809 he moved with the company to the Lyceum Theatre. From 1810 was a regular for many years at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. He acted in many comic operas and musicals, as well as straight tragedies and non-musical comedies. He featured in the theatrical reviews of William Hazlitt. A portrait of him made by Henry William Pickersgill was displayed at the Royal Academy Exhibition of 1811.

Selected roles

• Singer in The Siege of St Quintin by Theodore Hook (1808)
• Cymon in Cymon by David Garrick (1815)
• Clifton in The Slave by Thomas Morton (1816)
• Leander in The Padlock by Richard Cumberland (1821)
• Agib in Law of Java by George Colman (1822)
• Edward in Charles the Second by John Howard Payne (1824)
• Don Luis in Love's Victory by George Hyde (1825)
• Henry Dunderford in Teddy the Tiler by George Rodwell (1830)
• Bonnivet in Francis the First by Fanny Kemble (1832)
• Count Berghen in The Minister and the Mercer by Alfred Bunn (1834)