John Fernald

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John Fernald. British director and head of RADA.

He visited South Africa with his wife Jenny Laird, to direct Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard for the Johannesburg REPS in 1963. Toerien-Firth Company got him to direct Hildegard Neil in a revival of Private Lives, at the Intimate Theatre in 1974.

Sources

Tucker, 1997.

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