May 19, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Terminator: Genisys / Directed by Alan Taylor / PG13 5 Batman V Superman: Dawn Of Justice / Directed by Zack Snyder / 13V 3 The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 /...
May 13, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL, ROB HOFMEYR & DRIES BRUNT Power Play by Mike Nicol 6.5 Isis: The Heart Of Terror by Eugene Bach 7 Permanent Removal by Alan Cowell 7 Mike Nicol’s tales of gangsters, petty criminals...
May 11, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL In Bocca Al Lupo / Directed by Jane Taylor / Ramalao Makhene Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg Jemma Kahn has created a fantastical one-woman niche as the leading (and perhaps only) exponent of kamishibai – a Japanese street theatre art...
May 7, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL In The Heights / Directed by Danielle Bentel & Stefania Du Toit / Hyde Park High School, Johannesburg Many school productions are chosen with at least one eye on the complexity of the piece being performed and the capacity of young...
May 4, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Mark Nevin: My Unfashionable Opinion Mark Nevin is probably still best known as the songwriter behind Perfect, the biggest hit from influential folk band Fairground Attraction, of which he was a founding member. That song, though it had...
May 1, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert: The Musical / Directed by Simon Phillips / The Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert remains a very different kettle of queens to most stage musicals. As one of the...