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Founded by [[Gwen ffrangçon-Davies]] and [[Marda Vanne]] when ffrangçon-Davies came to South Africa South Africa in 1941, they toured the country with a number of fine productions and presented seasons of plays during the war years at the [[Standard Theatre]] till 1946. The company utlized performers who were to become household names, including [[Siegfried Mynhardt]], [[Wensley Pithey]], [[Rolf Lefebre]], [[Zoë Randall]] and [[Sidney James]]. The plays performed included Barrie’s ''[[Quality Street]]'' (1941), ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' (1941), Lilian Hellman’s ''[[Watch on the Rhine]]'' (1943), Coward's ''[[Blithe Spirit]]'' (1944), ''[[Merry Wives of Windsor]]'' (1945), [[Emlyn Williams's]] ''[[The Wind of Heaven]]'' (1946) and Turgenev's ''[[ A Month in the Country]]'' (1946), which was their last performance before they went back to England..
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Tucker, 1997
 
 
 
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