Jun 22, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Railway Children / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / National Children’s Theatre, Parktown, Johannesburg E Nesbit’s 1905 story has endured even as its themes – which involve war, espionage, poverty, family and community – have gone...
Jun 18, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Mountain Between Us / Directed by Hany Abu-Assad / 13S Kill Switch / Directed by Tim Smit / 13LV Certain Women / Directed by Kelly Reichardt / 13L Kirk Cameron: Connect / Directed by Caleb Price / PG Inside / Directed by Miguel Angel...
Jun 7, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Good White / Directed by Greg Homann / Barney Simon Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg With a potentially inflammatory title and marketing that informs audiences that one of the topics examined in the script is the...
Jun 6, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL One To One: John And Yoko (13LN) / Directed by Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards / Ster Kinekor Gauteng and Western Cape Both John Lennon and Yoko Ono are often seen as being as difficult as they are complex, sometimes not...
Jun 1, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Othello / Directed by Claire Mortimer / UJ Arts Centre, Auckland Park, Johannesburg Durban company ThinkTheatre has, for many years, produced high-quality productions of the Shakespeare plays prescribed as setworks in South...
May 30, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL A Doll’s House, Part 2 / Directed by Barbara Rubin / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg The set-up for this contemporary play – it was written in 2017 – is odd. It’s a follow-up to A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen in 1879,...
