Linda-Louise Swain - Revision history

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 '''(NOTE: Site still under construction.)'''
-[[Linda-Louise Swain]] (Date of birth: 29th November, 1959- 2026) is a "Swinger" actress (ie acts in both professional and amateur roles), and a drama teacher.
+[[Linda-Louise Swain]] (November 29, 1959 - May 12, 2026) was a "Swinger" actress (ie acts in both professional and amateur roles), and a drama teacher.
 == Biography ==

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 After Linda-Louise started teaching at [[Pearson High School]]  2006-7 she was asked if she would start teaching drama as a subject. She agreed and started teaching drama as a subject to scholars between grade 10 and grade 12.
-At the same time, [[Sharon Rather]], who had been running her own drama school but for younger children agreed top join Linda-Louise and so they formed the [[Rother Swain Drama Studio]] in 1991.
+At the same time, [[Sharon Rother]], who had been running her own drama school but for younger children agreed top join Linda-Louise and so they formed the [[Rother Swain Drama Studio]] in 1991.
 She died on 12 May 2026 after batting a long illness.

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 '''(NOTE: Site still under construction.)'''
-[[Linda-Louise Swain]] (Date of birth: 29th November, 1959) is a "Swinger" actress (ie acts in both professional and amateur roles), and a drama teacher.
+[[Linda-Louise Swain]] (Date of birth: 29th November, 1959- 2026) is a "Swinger" actress (ie acts in both professional and amateur roles), and a drama teacher.
 == Biography ==
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 After Linda-Louise started teaching at [[Pearson High School]]  2006-7 she was asked if she would start teaching drama as a subject. She agreed and started teaching drama as a subject to scholars between grade 10 and grade 12.
-At the same time, [[Sharon Rather]], who had been running her own drama school but for younger children agreed top join Linda-Louise and so they formed the [[Rother Swain Drama Studio]].
+At the same time, [[Sharon Rather]], who had been running her own drama school but for younger children agreed top join Linda-Louise and so they formed the [[Rother Swain Drama Studio]] in 1991.
 ==Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance==

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	[[Ivor Markman]]: Personal interview with Linda-Louise Swain for ESAT, April, 2026.		[[Ivor Markman]]: Personal interview with Linda-Louise Swain for ESAT, April, 2026.
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 After Linda-Louise started teaching at [[Pearson High School]]  2006-7 she was asked if she would start teaching drama as a subject. She agreed and started teaching drama as a subject to scholars between grade 10 and grade 12.
-At the same time, [[Sharon Rather]], who had been running her own drama school but for younger children agreed top join Linda-Louise and so they formed the Rother Swain Drama Studio.
+At the same time, [[Sharon Rather]], who had been running her own drama school but for younger children agreed top join Linda-Louise and so they formed the [[Rother Swain Drama Studio]].
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 == Sources ==
 [[Ivor Markman]]: Personal interview with Linda-Louise Swain for ESAT, April, 2026.

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 Sister Ethel at the Missionvale Care Centre generously allowed these kids to perform in the Centre's little hall.
-From there Linda-Louise taught at various schools, including [[St George's College]], [[Collegiate School for Girls]], [[Hoerskool D F Malherbe]] and [[Victoria Park High School]], teaching extra-mural drama and Trinity exams thus enabling scholars to earn their qualifications.
+From there Linda-Louise taught at various schools, including [[St George's College]], [[Collegiate School for Girls]], [[Hoërskool DF Malherbe]] and [[Victoria Park High School]], teaching extra-mural drama and Trinity exams thus enabling scholars to earn their qualifications.
 She was very community conscious and did a lot of community theatre, touring to poorer rural areas, giving anti-drug, alcoholic awareness and Aids awareness in the early 1990s.
-Working together with the Red Cross and Nacosa (Networking HIV and AIDS Community of Southern Africa) Linda-Louise devised an AIDS awareness programme showing how the disease is spread and how to prevent infection.
+Working together with the Red Cross and Nacosa (Networking HIV and AIDS Community of Southern Africa) Linda-Louise devised an AIDS awareness programme showing how the disease spread and how to prevent infection.
 She taught rural communities, through her productions, for example, how to treat family members who had contracted the Aids virus, how to wash a sick person's body, to treat them with kindness and gentleness, while at the same time not exposing themselves to blood, but still being there for them.
 Initially there were some language barriers and to break down those barriers Linda-Louise based a lot of the work on drama work.

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 She was initially introduced to acting through things such as play competitions and play festivals, poetry competitions and choral verse competitions. In 1974, when she was in Std 5, the school staged a series of one-act plays during centenary celebrations marking the founding of the school in 1864. She was cast as the school's first headmistress, Miss Virginia Lavinia Isitt.
-While she was 16 years old (grade 11) in senior school Linda-Louise acted in [[Table Top]] produced by the extramural teacher [[Dorothy Sutherland]] and played the part of a Russian diplomat ("We have a proverb; When the heart is full, the head is often empty."). The production was entered in the inter schools one-act play competition for which she won the "Best Actress" award.
+While she was in grade 11 in senior school, 16 year-old Linda-Louise acted in [[Table Top]] produced by the extramural teacher [[Dorothy Sutherland]] where she played the part of a Russian diplomat ("We have a proverb; When the heart is full, the head is often empty."). The production was entered in the inter schools one-act play competition for which she won the "Best Actress" award.
 After matriculating she went to [[Marjorie Gilbey]]'s studio where she studied and completed her Associate Trinity College of London certificate. That was followed by the  Licentiate of Trinity College London (LTCL) at the end of which she was qualified to teach.