 In revenge the pair were later treated to a reading of the first three acts of Cumberland's five-act tragedy "Tiberius", and only avoided acts four and five by fleeing back to London.In 1799 Bannister joined with Kelly to acquire the English copyright in a German work by Kotzebue (whose "Pizarro" had provided such an effective source for Sheridan), and induced Tom Dibdin to create a new libretto around the dramatic incidents, called "Of Age Tomorrow", for which Kelly then provided the music.Bannister appeared in it (opposite Miss Decamp, the future Mrs Charles Kemble), in the character of the Hair Dresser, and he could not 'have handled the comb, curling irons and powder puff more skilfully'.