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Horniman, Annie E(lizabeth) F(redericka)
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| Theatre manager and patron, born in London, UK. She inherited a large legacy in 1893, and began to invest in the theatre, becoming a founder of English repertory theatre and a staunch supporter of the Irish theatre movement. She financed the first staging of Yeats's The Land of Heart's Desire, and Shaw's Arms and the Man, and sponsored the building of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin for the Irish National Theatre Society (1904). In 1908 she purchased and rebuilt the Gaiety Theatre in Manchester, to house the repertory company she had founded the previous year. Until the company disbanded (1917) for want of financial success, she put on over 100 new plays by the so-called ‘Manchester School’, mostly directed by Lewis Casson, who married a member of the company, Sybil Thorndike. |
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