By BRUCE DENNILL The Double Bass / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Auto & General Theatre On The Square, Sandton The Double Bass, written by German author Patrick Suskind, is, in its Johannesburg incarnation, very clearly a three-hander. There’s only one actor – the excellent ...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Frozen Ground / Directed by Scott Walker / 16LVD 5 Fire With Fire / Directed by David Barrett / 16VL 5 3 Days To Kill / Directed by ...
By DARISE FOSTER The opening night of the Elvis The Show, With Nathan Belt was … eventful. The good news: Belt has an incredible voice. The bad news: I didn’t feel like I got what I came for. The show started off slow, with the full-house ...
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After 21 years of making South Africans laugh, Stephen Francis and Rico, the creators of Madam & Eve are preparing something new. There’s the cartoon strip, the books, the award-winning television sitcom and now, get ready for Madam & Eve, the stage musical. Well, ...
By BRUCE DENNILL The title of Alan Committie’s new one-man show, The Sound Of Laughter, turns out to be a prophecy that’s fulfilled early on in the piece, when the belly laughs arrive unexpectedly close to the beginning of the show, during a stint ...
0By GABBI BRONDANI London-based director Ed Perkins is screening his debut feature documentary, Garnet’s Gold, to a South African audience at the Jozi Film Festival 2015. I chatted to Perkins about the film, which is produced by Simon Chinn, two-time ...
0A good story usually takes really long to tell, and this is the case with Nigeria’s film industry, affectionately known as Nollywood. Give Nigerian directors, producers and actors enough time and they will do what they ...
0In Mma Ramotswe’s fifteenth adventure, Grace Makutsi launches a new enterprise of her own: The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Café. She is an ambitious lady with a business plan, but who could predict temperamental chefs, drunken ...
0By BRUCE DENNILL Istanbul. Home to the Hagia Sophia, the Blue Mosque, the Golden Horn, the Grand Bazaar, the Topkapi Palace and dozens of other world-famous tourist attractions, it’s also riddled with side roads; non-descript, non-guidebook diversions ...
0By BRUCE DENNILL The Patisserie, Post Office Centre, Rudd Road, Illovo, Johannesburg Going for lunch at The Patisserie in Illovo’s Post Office Centre is like stepping into Alice’s larder in Wonderland. Everything pulses with psychedelic colours, with the ...
0By PAUL ELLIOTT The Joburg Photo Umbrella is the first public photography-specific programme in the city of Johannesburg to bring together and network a wide range of photography content, exhibitions, activities and dialogue. Joburg Photo Umbrella is a festival of photography initiated by the Market Photo Workshop
0After 21 years of making South Africans laugh, Stephen Francis and Rico, the creators of Madam & Eve are preparing something new. There’s the cartoon
0The Board, Management, Dancers and Staff of Joburg Ballet mourn the passing of Louis Godfrey in Somerset West on Friday 6 February. Johannesburg-born Louis Godfrey
7 By BRUCE DENNILL Canadian singer, songwriter and guitarist Ian Thornley’s journey with his band Big Wreck has been multi-monikered: Big Wreck, then Ian Thornley (solo), then Ian Thornley & Big Wreck and now back under the single banner again. Whatever the finer details, that ...
4 What is Christian music? How is it different from music made by Christians? Is it different from church music? And why is it usually quite bad? As a worship leader, these are the sorts of questions I like to bore people to death ...
2 Arriving at a studio to record your own original music is mostly incredibly exciting, but also a little nerve-wracking. Are you properly rehearsed? Will your voice last? Will the sound of a nearby electric gate opening and closing drive you to distraction? Time ...
2 By BRUCE DENNILL Phillip Phillips 8 The Script 6.5 The Dome / Johannesburg / 4 February The Script returned to South Africa after a four-year break in which they went from radio-friendly pop lady-pleasers, to really successful radio-friendly pop lady-pleasers with a large fanbase of very dedicated ...
2 Ben Trovato’s the hilarious misguided misogynist whose Sunday Times column thrilled and amused readers for years. Mark Verbaan is the man behind the persona, and his new book, The Memoirs Of Ben Trovato, suggests there was more to the man in the hat’s ...
2 Airport angst. It’s a thing. Anyone who’s felt annoyed when they’ve had to arrive at a placed composed primarily of tiles and x-ray machines four hours before they’ll be able to leave it ahead of an international flight has suffered from this condition. The bulk of ...
2 There were several moments on the Otter Trail where I looked up and thought: “This is tougher than I thought it would be.” When the pack I was carrying bit into my shoulders and my trail runners just wouldn’t grip on the wet ...
2 There are two things that annoy me about audiences in South Africa. The first thing is that they consider a local cast to be inferior to an international one. Nowhere close to true! The second is that they don’t support student productions. They need convincing them ...
2 By BRUCE DENNILL A song is worth a thousand words. Or something. Below is a song I wrote about 2014 – not an easy period - with a demo for free download at the bottom of the page. Enjoy. Comments welcome/hoped for/useful. Centre Stage © Bruce Dennill, ...
1 By BRUCE DENNILL oneNineone / Hyatt Regency /Rosebank, Johannesburg Fine dining often puts more emphasis on the “fine” than the “dining”, which means that the sort of restaurant guest who only goes to an eatery at the fancier end of the scale on special occasions ...
