By BRUCE DENNILL Redhill Arts Festival / Redhill School, Morningside The Village On Oval SundayFest: Jesse Clegg The music festival aspect of RedFest, which included a festival-style market (that is to say, one with stalls where you could buy bath...
By BRUCE DENNILL Nik Rabinowitz’ Pension Killer / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg It’s always for a comedian to have a theme around which to build a marketing campaign for a new solo show. If nothing else, it comes across as less...
By BRUCE DENNILL Swingin’ Las Vegas / Conducted by Adam Howard / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg The title of this musical extravaganza (an accurate term, for once) is slightly misleading. While a good chunk of the running order...
By BRUCE DENNILL Joburg Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty / Staged by Sophie Sarrote / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg The Sleeping Beauty story is nearly 700 years old and has been the source material and basis for scores of...
By BRUCE DENNILL A Vegan Killed My Marriage / Directed by Craig Freimond / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg In terms of both its title and its poster art, A Vegan Killed My Marriage looks like a themed stand-up comedy set by Aaron...
By BRUCE DENNILL The King Of Broken Things / Directed by Michael Taylor-Broderick / Mannie Manim Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg Kids, as all parents know, can be ridiculous, annoying, frustrating and unfathomable. Happily – for the...
