Macready!

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A one man play by Frank Barrie. (Also written without the excalamation, as Macready, in some sources. )


The original text

Based on the diaries of the 19th Century actor William Charles Macready (1793-1873), and written and performed by Frank Barrie at the **. He subsequently toured to 67 countries with the play during the 1980s.

South African productions

1984: Performed at the 1984 National Arts Festival by Frank Barrie, presented by Brian Charteris and Giles Daubeny.

Sources

National Arts Festival programme, 1984.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Barrie

Frank Simon, Actors and Nonactors, in New York Magazine 18 Aug 1980:p.72[1]

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