Aug 15, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Hollow Crown / Directed by Fred Abrahamse / Hilton Arts Festival: Memorial Hall, Hilton College A stage set-up that involves nothing more than four chairs, two lecterns and two pedestals with crowns on top of them informs...
Aug 14, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Dumb Waiter / Directed by Aidan Scott / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg Being aware that this play, like many of Harold Pinter’s works, is classified as ‘Theatre of the Absurd’, means that what unfolds on stage...
Aug 11, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Namaste Bae: Blessings And Kombucha / Directed by Louw Venter / Hilton Arts Festival: Memorial Hall, Hilton College Namaste Bae is one of several characters comedian and actor Rob Van Vuuren has developed after a (probably)...
Aug 4, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Nik Rabinowitz: Geriatric Millennial / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg The title of Nik Rabinowitz’s new show suggests something about ageing and the possibilities of that process slowing one down, mentally or...
Aug 3, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Breakfast With Mugabe / Directed by Calvin Ratladi / Mannie Manim Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg It would be wonderful if we lived in a world in which stories that examined the psyche of narcissists, dictators and...
Jul 26, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Tramp / Directed by Amanda Bothma / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg Amanda Bothma and her team at Wêla Kapela Productions have figured out a storytelling formula that transcends the media they are working in, and...
