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(19**-) Actress and director[*?] She devised a revue, together with her then husband *** and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander]] in 1965. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year. She appears to have left theatre after this.

== Sources ==
See Tucker, 1997

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-'''Gertie Awerbuch''' (September 28, 1928 - November 2015) was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, was a stage actress and director[*?]
+'''Gertie Awerbuch''' (September 28, 1928 - November 2015) was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, was an amateur stage actress and playwright.
 == Early Life ==
-[[Gertie Awerbach]] grew up in a boarding school which her Russian mother had set up to help Russian and Polish Jews assimilate into South African society. She matriculated with seven distinctions at Commercial College and later became a secretary with the Grinaker shipping company.
+[[Gertie Awerbach]] grew up in a boarding school which her Russian mother had set up to help Russian and Polish Jews assimilate into South African society. She matriculated with seven distinctions at Commercial College and afterwards became a secretary with the Grinaker shipping company. She later became a very successful real estate agent. For 17 years she was cookery editor of the [[Citizen]] newspaper and her column was published once a week. She was well-known for her tasty traditional Jewish recipes.
 == Contribution to South African Theatre ==
-She devised a revue in the early 1960s, together with her then husband, Lithuanian-born [[Morris Awerbuch]] (who she married in 1951) and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. A humorous look at being Jewish in South Africa it was written in "Yinglish", a mixture of Yiddish and English. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year.
+She devised a revue in the early 1960s, together with her then husband, Lithuanian-born [[Morris Awerbuch]] (who she married in 1951) and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. The play was a humorous look about being Jewish in South Africa and was written in "Yinglish", a mixture of Yiddish and English. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year.
-She then wrote [[Mock Wedding]] and many of the songs after [[Solly Krok]] and [[Abe Krok]] approached [[Joan Brickhill]] to do a show for charity. She then contacted Awerbuch.
+After being contacted by [[Joan Brickhill]], she wrote [[Mock Wedding]] and many of the songs after [[Solly Krok]] and [[Abe Krok]] approached Brickhill to do a charity show.
 == Sources ==

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 == Contribution to South African Theatre ==
-She devised a revue in the early 1960s, together with her then husband, Lithuanian-born [[Morris Awerbuch]] (who she married in 1951) and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. A humorous look at being Jewish in South Africa it was written in "Yinglish", a mixture of Yiddish and English. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year. She appears to have left theatre after this.
+She devised a revue in the early 1960s, together with her then husband, Lithuanian-born [[Morris Awerbuch]] (who she married in 1951) and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. A humorous look at being Jewish in South Africa it was written in "Yinglish", a mixture of Yiddish and English. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year.
 == Sources ==

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-'''Gertie Awerbuch''' (19**-) Actress and director[*?]
+'''Gertie Awerbuch''' (September 28, 1928 - November 2015) was born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg, was a stage actress and director[*?]
-She devised a revue, together with her then husband [[Morris Awerbuch]] and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year. She appears to have left theatre after this.
+== Early Life ==
 == Sources ==
 [[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997. 204.
 Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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-(19**-) Actress and director[*?] She devised a revue, together with her then husband [[Morris Awerbuch]] and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year. She appears to have left theatre after this.
+'''Gertie Awerbuch''' (19**-) Actress and director[*?]
 == Sources ==
-See Tucker, 1997
+[[ESAT Bibliography Tra-Tz|Tucker]], 1997. 204.
 Go to [[South African Theatre/Bibliography]]

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−	(19*-) Actress and director[?] She devised a revue, together with her then husband ~~***~~ and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year. She appears to have left theatre after this.	+	(19*-) Actress and director[?] She devised a revue, together with her then husband [[Morris Awerbuch]] and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year. She appears to have left theatre after this.

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−	(19*-) Actress and director[?] She devised a revue, together with her then husband *** and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander]] in 1965. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year. She appears to have left theatre after this.	+	(19*-) Actress and director[?] She devised a revue, together with her then husband *** and [[Miriam Lopert]], called ''[[What Was, Was!]]'' This riotous show about life in the Jewish community , starring [[Charles Stodel]], [[June Hern]] and [[Michael Fisher]], was staged at the [[Jewish Guild]] and the [[Alexander Theatre]] in 1965. It was so popular that they did two more in the same year. She appears to have left theatre after this.

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 == Sources ==
 See Tucker, 1997
 Return to [[ESAT Personalities A]]
 Return to [[South_African_Theatre/Personalities|South African Theatre Personalities]]
 Return to [[Main Page]]