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| − | [[Yvonne Silbert]] (1926-1975) | + | #REDIRECT [[Yvonne Abrahams]] |
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| − | ==Biography==
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| − | Born in Krugersdorp In 1926.
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| − | In 1950 she married Rupert Abrahams, an attorney. Two weeks later she contracted poliomyelitis and was confined to a wheelchair for the rest of her life. She regained the use of one hand but composed no more songs as she could no longer play the piano.
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| − | ==Contribution to South African theatre, film, media and performance==
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| − | Before she was twenty she wrote a musical play called ''[[Take It or Leave It!]]'', produced in Johannesburg by [[Norah Taylor]] in August 1948.
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| − | She travelled around the reef teaching Speech and Drama, and acted in amateur theatre productions in South Africa.
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| − | A play she wrote about Crippen was presented on Springbok Radio.
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| − | She continued to write plays and short stories after she fell ill. Most of her time was taken up with teaching speech and drama, and she produced a number of Shakespearean plays at Afrikaans high schools.
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| − | ==Sources==
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| − | http://historicalpapers-atom.wits.ac.za/abrahams-yvonne
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