… Theatre Royal, Drury Lane , but was also served by various coffee shops, taverns, bagnios and brothels, as well as the space of the Piazza, which was a site of political meetings and mobs. This slice of London life was presided over by the … reconstruction in 1792. Even as a new working-class audience was emerging, the rebuilding increased the proportion of space dedicated to boxes, while the galleries were squeezed and the size of the pit only marginally increased, a clear … may have embraced a degree of politeness, riots surrounding the theatres remained relatively frequent, sometimes sparked by price increases. 11 After the Covent Garden theatre burnt down and was rebuilt in 1808-9, the Old Price riots …