The Company of Four

There were two acting groups who called themselves The Company of Four.

The Company of Four, Port Elizabeth

The earlier one was founded in Port Elizabeth with Maurice Weightman and Will Jamieson who produced at least one play, Antigone by Jean Anouilh, in the Arts Hall, Port Elizabeth, in June, 1952.

Sources

Antigone theatre programme, June 1952.

The Company of Four, Cape Town

The later group, The Company of Four was a theatre production company founded by René Ahrenson, Donald Inskip, Leonard Schach and Cecilia Sonnenberg making its bow at the Baxter Theatre with The Homecoming in 1977.

Subsequent productions included The Price (1978), What the Butler Saw (1979), The Dresser (1980), Beecham (1981), 84 Charing Cross Road (1981), Children of a Lesser God (1982-3), Pack of Lies (1983).

Sources

Tucker, 1997.

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