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| − | The [[Gwen ffrangçon-Davies / Marda Vanne Company]], (also referred to as the [[Marda Vanne-Gwen ffrangçon-Davies Company]] in some sources), was founded by [[Gwen ffrangçon-Davies]] and [[Marda Vanne]] when Frangçon-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 Lefebvre]], [[Zoë Randall]], [[Alec Bell]], [[Le Roux Smith le Roux]], [[Ivy Collins]], [[Noel Hewitt]], [[Margaret Inglis]], [[Jessie Bryant]] and [[Sidney James]].
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| − | The plays performed included Barrie’s ''[[Quality Street]]'' (1941), ''[[Twelfth Night]]'' (1941), ''[[Flare Path]]'', ''[[What Every Woman Knows]]'', ''[[Milestones]]'', 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), and ''[[The Taming of the Shrew]]'', which was their last performance before they went back to England.
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| − | [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997.
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| − | ''[[Scenaria]]'', (120), January 1991.
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