Macdona Players

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The Macdona Players was a theatre company founded by Charles Macdona (1860–1946), an actor and theatre manager, in 1921, to specialise in plays by George Bernard Shaw.

They toured widely, including a season in South Africa with a repertoire that included Pygmalion, Candida and You Never Can Tell.

Sources

A. M. Gibbs. 1990. "The State of the Theatre, 1933". In: Gibbs A.M. (ed) Shaw. Interviews and Recollections Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London[1]

"The State of the Theatre, 1933"[2]

André Huguenet, 1950

Ludwig Binge, 1969

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