Feb 25, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Workers’ Chant / Choreographed by Nhlanhla Mahlangu / Workers’ Museum, Newtown, Johannesburg A work examining, through dance, the harshness of the lives of the migrant workers who worked – under terrible conditions – in the mines and...
Feb 11, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Book Marks / Directed by Allan Kolski Horwitz / AFDA Red Roof Theatre, Milpark, Johannesburg This intimate four-character play is billed as a tragi-comedy, but as it weaves its convoluted way to its conclusion, it leans more towards the...
Feb 11, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Blue Man Group / Directed by Marcus Miller / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg There’s that old line: “If a tree fell in a forest and killed a mime, would anybody care?”, which is funny because the original joke had to do with...
Feb 9, 2017 | chART
By PETER ALKEMA Family Concert: Pieter and the Horrible Hyena / Conducted by Richard Cock / Linder Auditorium, Parktown, Johannesburg The penultimate concert of this year’s Johannesburg International Mozart Festival was a folksy, Sunday morning delight...
Feb 5, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Joanna MacGregor / Johannesburg Musical Society / Linder Auditorium, Parktown, Johannesburg As part of the Johannesburg International Mozart Festival, this concert provided a platform for virtuoso pianist Joanna MacGregor – Head of Piano...
Feb 3, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL West Side Story / Directed by Matthew Wild / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg There’s a good deal of nostalgia involved in watching West Side Story. It’s unavoidable. It’s a 60-year-old stage musical based on a...
