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...that when the English actress Lucia Elizabeth Vestris (pictured) took over the Olympic Theatre in 1830, she became the first ever female actor-manager in the history of London theatre?
...that Ichikawa Danjūrō V, one of the most famous and successful Kabuki actors, was briefly forced out of the theater after being accused of misappropriating funds?
...that the 2005 docudrama The Burnt Theatre is set in Cambodia's Suramet National Theatre, which was destroyed by a fire in 1994?

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