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John Sumner, English-Australian director, founded the Melbourne Theatre Company (died 2013)

John Sumner (director)

English-born director

John Hackman Sumner, was an English-born director and producer and theatre impresario, who was the founder and artistic director of Melbourne Theatre Company in Australia, gathering a group of later internationally famous stars including Ray Lawler, Zoe Caldwell, Barry Humphries…
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Melbourne Theatre Company

Theatre company in Melbourne, Australia

The Melbourne Theatre Company is a theatre company based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Founded in 1953 as the Union Theatre Repertory Company at the Union Theatre at the University of Melbourne, it is the oldest professional theatre company in Australia.
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