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Actor-manager

British pronunciation/ˈaktəmˈanɪdʒə/
American pronunciation/ˈæktɚmˈænɪdʒɚ/
Actor-manager
[NOUN]
1

someone who manages a theater company and also acts in their plays

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1But Garrick was probably also influenced by resuming his own institutional role back in the capital of discrimination in London as its leading actor-manager.
2For one key period in the mid-eighteenth century, indeed, it was regarded as Shakespeare’s natural posthumous home, but this was not because of the Hanoverian kings who nominally patronized it but because of the actor-manager who actually ran it.
3Hindsight is a wonderful thing: we all know now exactly who would be following them next up that patrilineal staircase of successive great Shakespearean actor-managers.
4The travel writer H.V. Morton would remember its Edwardian actor-manager Frank Benson telling him that only through Stratford, the common meeting place of the English-speaking world, could we heal the pains of Industrialism and make England happy again.
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