sentences:  She also played Gwendoline in "The Importance of Being Earnest", Beatrice in Shelley's
  "The Cenci" and Joan in George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan", emulating her mentor and friend, Dame Sybil Thorndike.Many of these productions toured the United States, the USSR, the Middle East and Europe.Jefford next started a period of work with Frank Hauser's Oxford Playhouse which included the first of her three "Cleopatra"s, Racine's "Phèdre" and Lina in "Misalliance" which transferred to the Criterion Theatre.