By BRUCE DENNILL Gringo / Directed by Nash Edgerton / 16LVS Tulip Fever / Directed by Justin Chadwick / 16SN Kidnap / Directed by Luis Prieto / 13LV Proud Mary / Directed by Babak Najafi / 16LVD All We Had / Directed by Katie Holmes / 13DL The Strangers:...
By BRUCE DENNILL A Midsummer Night’s Dream / Directed by Geoffrey Hyland / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg In a theatre calendar populated with classic hits (The Sound Of Music and Mamma Mia are both returning soon for...
By BRUCE DENNILL Janice Honeyman’s Peter Pan / Directed by Janice Honeyman / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein A return to well-known source material – Janice Honeyman directed different versions of a Peter Pan pantomime in 2007 and 2014 –...
By ROB HOFMEYR, LISA WITEPSKI, NIGEL WILLIS Secret Empires by Peter Schweitzer Verwoerd: My Journey Through Family Betrayals by Wilhelm Verwoerd The Four Horsemen: Tthe Discussion That Sparked An Atheist Revolution by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Promise / Directed by Sylvaine Strike / John Kani Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg “Promise” means both “a declaration or assurance that one will do something or a particular thing will happen” and “the quality...
By BRUCE DENNILL Joburg Ballet: Don Quixote / Staged by Angela Malan / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg All classical ballets involve stories within stories, and Don Quixote features, among others, the interwoven tales of...
