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 : ''[[What is Love?]]''
-With her husband [[Bill Brewer]] she also wrote texts for and performed on radio during the early years (including the popular ***). In later years she focused on television and film work, such as ''Egoli'', the "Dot and Tchalie" Ithuba adverts, ''37 Honey Street'', ''102 Paradise Lane'', ''For Sale'' and ''Bentley''.
+With her husband [[Bill Brewer]] she also wrote texts for and performed on radio during the early years. In later years she focused on television and film work, such as ''Egoli'', the "Dot and Tchalie" Ithuba adverts, ''37 Honey Street'', ''102 Paradise Lane'', ''For Sale'' and ''Bentley''.
 == Awards, etc ==

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 == Awards, etc ==
-She was chosen actress of the year for her performance in [[The Miracle Worker]], 1961.
+She was chosen actress of the year for her performance in ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'', 1961.
 She won a [[Naledi Theatre Awards|Naledi Lifetime Achiever Award]], February 2005.

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 ===As actress===
-She had stage roles in ''[[The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' (1958), [[Leonard Schach]]’s [[Cockpit Players]] production of Basil Warner’s ''[[Try for White]]'' (1958?),  ''[[The Marriage-Go-Round]]'' ([[Taubie Kushlick]]’s production, the [[Intimate Theatre]], 1959), William Gibson’s ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]], the [[Playhouse]] in 1961), ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]],  Cape Town, 1961),  ''[[A Touch of the Poet]]'' ([[NTO]], 1961), ''[[King Lear]]'' ([[PACT]], 196*), Varya in ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' and Pegeen Mike in ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'', both [[PACT]] productions, 1963, ''[[Rookery Nook]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Romeo and Jeanette]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[The Affair]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' ([[PACT]] 1964), ''[[The Miser]]'' [[PACT]], 1964), ''[[Rashomon]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Caucasian Chalk Circle]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Devils]]'' ([[PACT]], 1966), ''[[What is Love?]]'' ([[PACT]], 1968), ''[[Everything in the Garden]]'' ([[Colin Fish Productions]], 196?), ''[[A Winter Vacation]]'' ([[PACT]], 1970), ''[[Forty Carats]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1971, “Hester” in ''[[Equus]]'' ([[Pieter Toerien]], 1975), ''[[Home]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]], 1978), ''[[The Prisoner of Second Avenue]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983).
+She had stage roles in ''[[The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' ([[NTO]], 1958), [[Leonard Schach]]’s [[Cockpit Players]] production of Basil Warner’s ''[[Try for White]]'' (1958?),  ''[[The Marriage-Go-Round]]'' ([[Taubie Kushlick]]’s production, the [[Intimate Theatre]], 1959), William Gibson’s ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]], the [[Playhouse]] in 1961), ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]],  Cape Town, 1961),  ''[[A Touch of the Poet]]'' ([[NTO]], 1961), Varya in ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' and Pegeen Mike in ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'', both [[PACT]] productions, 1963, ''[[Rookery Nook]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Romeo and Jeanette]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[The Affair]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' ([[PACT]] 1964), ''[[The Miser]]'' [[PACT]], 1964), ''[[Rashomon]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Caucasian Chalk Circle]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Devils]]'' ([[PACT]], 1966), ''[[What is Love?]]'' ([[PACT]], 1968), ''[[King Lear]]'' ([[PACT]], 1969), ''[[Everything in the Garden]]'' ([[Colin Fish Productions]], 196?), ''[[A Winter Vacation]]'' ([[PACT]], 1970), ''[[Forty Carats]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1971, “Hester” in ''[[Equus]]'' ([[Pieter Toerien]], 1975), ''[[Home]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]], 1978), ''[[The Prisoner of Second Avenue]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983).
 Performed the one-woman show ''[[A Woman’s World – And Other Troubles]]''.  Also appeared in  ''[[Letters of Love, Lust and Living]]''.

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 ===As actress===
-She had stage roles in ''[[The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' (1958), [[Leonard Schach]]’s [[Cockpit Players]] production of Basil Warner’s ''[[Try for White]]'' (1958?),  ''[[The Marriage-Go-Round]]'' ([[Taubie Kushlick]]’s production, the [[Intimate Theatre]], 1959), William Gibson’s ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]], the [[Playhouse]] in 1961), ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]],  Cape Town, 1961),  ''[[A Touch of the Poet]]'' ([[NTO]], 1961), ''[[King Lear]]'' ([[PACT]], 196*), Varya in ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' and Pegeen Mike in ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'', both [[PACT]] productions, 1963, ''[[Rookery Nook]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Romeo and Jeanette]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[The Affair]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' ([[PACT]] 1964), ''[[The Miser]]'' [[PACT]], 1964), ''[[Rashomon]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Caucasian Chalk Circle]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Devils]]'' ([[PACT]], 1966), ''[[What is Love?]]'' ([[PACT]], 1968), ''[[Everything in the Garden]]'' ([[Colin Fish Productions]], 196?), ''[[A Winter Vacation]]'' ([[PACT]], 1970), ''[[Forty Carats]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1971, ''[[Equus]]'' in 1975, ''[[The Prisoner of Second Avenue]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983).
+She had stage roles in ''[[The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' (1958), [[Leonard Schach]]’s [[Cockpit Players]] production of Basil Warner’s ''[[Try for White]]'' (1958?),  ''[[The Marriage-Go-Round]]'' ([[Taubie Kushlick]]’s production, the [[Intimate Theatre]], 1959), William Gibson’s ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]], the [[Playhouse]] in 1961), ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]],  Cape Town, 1961),  ''[[A Touch of the Poet]]'' ([[NTO]], 1961), ''[[King Lear]]'' ([[PACT]], 196*), Varya in ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' and Pegeen Mike in ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'', both [[PACT]] productions, 1963, ''[[Rookery Nook]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Romeo and Jeanette]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[The Affair]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' ([[PACT]] 1964), ''[[The Miser]]'' [[PACT]], 1964), ''[[Rashomon]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Caucasian Chalk Circle]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Devils]]'' ([[PACT]], 1966), ''[[What is Love?]]'' ([[PACT]], 1968), ''[[Everything in the Garden]]'' ([[Colin Fish Productions]], 196?), ''[[A Winter Vacation]]'' ([[PACT]], 1970), ''[[Forty Carats]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1971, “Hester” in ''[[Equus]]'' ([[Pieter Toerien]], 1975), ''[[Home]]'' ([[Baxter Theatre]], 1978), ''[[The Prisoner of Second Avenue]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983).
-Performed the one-woman show ''[[A Woman’s World – And Other Troubles]]''. Played “Hester” in ''[[Equus]]'', in ''[[Home]]'' at the [[Baxter Theatre]] and in ''[[Letters of Love, Lust and Living]]''.
+Performed the one-woman show ''[[A Woman’s World – And Other Troubles]]''.  Also appeared in  ''[[Letters of Love, Lust and Living]]''.
 ===As director===

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 ===As actress===
-She had stage roles in ''[[The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' (1958), [[Leonard Schach]]’s [[Cockpit Players]] production of Basil Warner’s ''[[Try for White]]'' (1958?),  ''[[The Marriage-Go-Round]]'' ([[Taubie Kushlick]]’s production, the [[Intimate Theatre]], 1959), William Gibson’s ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]], the [[Playhouse]] in 1961), ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]],  Cape Town, 1961), ''[[King Lear]]'' ([[PACT]], 196*), Varya in ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' and Pegeen Mike in ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'', both [[PACT]] productions, 1963, ''[[Rookery Nook]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' ([[PACT]] 1964), ''[[The Caucasian Chalk Circle]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[What is Love?]]'' ([[PACT]], 1968), ''[[Everything in the Garden]]'' ([[Colin Fish Productions]], 196?), ''[[A Winter Vacation]]'' ([[PACT]], 1970), ''[[Forty Carats]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1971, ''[[Equus]]'' in 1975, ''[[The Prisoner of Second Avenue]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983).
+She had stage roles in ''[[The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' (1958), [[Leonard Schach]]’s [[Cockpit Players]] production of Basil Warner’s ''[[Try for White]]'' (1958?),  ''[[The Marriage-Go-Round]]'' ([[Taubie Kushlick]]’s production, the [[Intimate Theatre]], 1959), William Gibson’s ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]], the [[Playhouse]] in 1961), ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]],  Cape Town, 1961),  ''[[A Touch of the Poet]]'' ([[NTO]], 1961), ''[[King Lear]]'' ([[PACT]], 196*), Varya in ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' and Pegeen Mike in ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'', both [[PACT]] productions, 1963, ''[[Rookery Nook]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Romeo and Jeanette]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[The Affair]]'' ([[PACT]], 1963), ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' ([[PACT]] 1964), ''[[The Miser]]'' [[PACT]], 1964), ''[[Rashomon]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Caucasian Chalk Circle]]'' ([[PACT]], 1965), ''[[The Devils]]'' ([[PACT]], 1966), ''[[What is Love?]]'' ([[PACT]], 1968), ''[[Everything in the Garden]]'' ([[Colin Fish Productions]], 196?), ''[[A Winter Vacation]]'' ([[PACT]], 1970), ''[[Forty Carats]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1971, ''[[Equus]]'' in 1975, ''[[The Prisoner of Second Avenue]]'' ([[PACT]], 1983).
 Performed the one-woman show ''[[A Woman’s World – And Other Troubles]]''. Played “Hester” in ''[[Equus]]'', in ''[[Home]]'' at the [[Baxter Theatre]] and in ''[[Letters of Love, Lust and Living]]''.
 ===As director===

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 ===As writer===
-Wrote several literary reviews which were presented by [[PACT]] and other managements and in later years wrote and performed a popular one woman show ''[[Growing Old Disgracefully]]''. Became one of the ''Star'''s team of television critics and ran regular seminars on presentation skills and communication techniques.
+Wrote several literary reviews which were presented by [[PACT]] and other managements. In later years wrote and performed a popular one woman show ''[[Growing Old Disgracefully]]''. Became one of the ''Star'''s team of television critics and ran regular seminars on presentation skills and communication techniques.
 With her husband [[Bill Brewer]] she also wrote texts for and performed on radio during the early years (including the popular ***). In later years she focused on television and film work, such as ''Egoli'', the "Dot and Tchalie" Ithuba adverts, ''37 Honey Street'', ''102 Paradise Lane'', ''For Sale'' and ''Bentley''.

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 === Youth ===
 === Training ===
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 At the age of 73 obtained a B.A. Honours in English Literature from UNISA.
 === Career ===
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 She also taught speech and drama and later became a Fellow of Trinity College (becoming the vocal coach for the films ''Sarafina'' and ''Cry the Beloved Country'' for example).
 Performed the one-woman show ''[[A Woman’s World – And Other Troubles]]''. Played “Hester” in ''[[Equus]]'', in ''[[Home]]'' at the [[Baxter Theatre]] and in ''[[Letters of Love, Lust and Living]]''.
-''[[Forty Carats]]'' at the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1971, ''[[Equus]]'' in 1975, ''[[The Summer of the Seventeenth Doll]]'' 1958.
-She had stage roles in [[Leonard Schach]]’s [[Cockpit Players]] production of Basil Warner’s ''[[Try for White]]'' (1958?),  ''[[The Marriage-Go-Round]]'' ([[Taubie Kushlick]]’s production, the [[Intimate Theatre]], 1959), William Gibson’s ''[[The Miracle Worker]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]], the [[Playhouse]] in 1961), ''[[Two for the Seesaw]]'' ([[Cockpit Players]],  Cape Town, 1961), ''[[King Lear]]'' ([[PACT]], 196*), Varya in ''[[The Cherry Orchard]]'' and Pegeen Mike in ''[[The Playboy of the Western World]]'', both [[PACT]] productions, 1963, ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'' ([[PACT]] 1964).
+===As director===
-Other productions include ''[[The Affair]]'', ''[[The Devils]]'', ''[[Rashomon]]'', ''[[The Miser]]'', ''[[Romeo and Jeanette]]'', ''[[A Touch of the Poet]]'', ''[[What is Love?]]'', ''[[The Prisoner of Second Avenue]]'', ''[[Ring Round the Moon]]'', ''[[The Caucasian Chalk Circle]]'', ''[[Rookery Nook]]'', ''[[A Winter Vacation]]'', ''[[Everything in the Garden]]''.
+She directed a number of productions, including:
-She directed ''[[Rebecca]]'' in 1969.
+: ''[[Rebecca]]''
-On occasion she has directed some of PACTs’s school programmes.
+: ''[[Once Upon a Time]]''
-With her husband [[Bill Brewer]] she also wrote texts for and performed on radio during the early years (including the popular ***). In later years she focused on television and film work, such as ''Egoli'', the "Dot and Tchalie" Ithuba adverts, ''37 Honey Street'', ''102 Paradise Lane'', ''For Sale'' and ''Bentley''.
+On occasion she has directed some of [[PACT]]'s school programmes.
 Wrote several literary reviews which were presented by [[PACT]] and other managements and in later years wrote and performed a popular one woman show ''[[Growing Old Disgracefully]]''. Became one of the ''Star'''s team of television critics and ran regular seminars on presentation skills and communication techniques.
 == Awards, etc ==

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 [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997.
-''The Star'', 15 February 2005.
+''[[The Star]]'', 15 February 2005.
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