Jan 29, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL La La Land / Directed by Damien Chazelle / PG13 La La Land. There’s a clue in the name – this is a fairy tale, not to be taken seriously. It’s incredibly simplistic because it’s a dream placed on a screen, not experience lived out and...
Jan 28, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Bryan Adams: Tracks Of My Years 7 The Motherland: This Is Our Home 6 David Gray: Mutineers 6.5 Mark Counihan: To The Brave Ones 7 For a writer as...
Jan 26, 2017 | chART
By ROB HOFMEYR & DRIES BRUNT Behold The Man by Brodie and Brock Thoene 7 Permanent Removal by Alan S Cowell 6 Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama 8 Nwelezelanga,...
Jan 22, 2017 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Viennese New Year’s Concert / Johannesburg Festival Orchestra, conducted by Richard Cock / Linder Auditorium, Johannesburg Now an annual fixture on Johannesburg’s classical music scene, the Viennese New Year’s Concert, timed for three...
Jan 21, 2017 | chART
BY BRUCE DENNILL When Swallows Cry / Directed by Lesedi Job / Laager Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg Migration is perhaps the international political buzzword (buzz-kill?) of the moment, though its nuances are generally hammered into...
Jan 13, 2017 | chART
BY BRUCE DENNILL The House Of Truth / Directed by Vanessa Cooke / Barney Simon Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg The Market Theatre hosted a play, Crepuscule, about Drum magazine journalist and short story writer Can Themba, in 2015. The...
