By BRUCE DENNILL The Lumineers / Johannesburg Botanical Gardens, Emmarentia / 6 December The roots music revival spearheaded – in commercial terms, anyway – by Mumford & Sons in recent years has bought with it an audience comprising, from some points...
By BRUCE DENNILL Forever Plaid / Directed by Elizma Badenhorst / Auto & General Theatre On The Square As Caitlin Clerk pointed out in a review elsewhere on this site, audience perceptions that productions that feature either South African or student...
By BRUCE DENNILL Kings Of Chaos / Sun City Superbowl / 30 November Everyone needs a hobby, and as hobbies go, getting a bunch of neo-classic rockers together to tour the world and play each other’s music once every couple of years is a goodie....
By BRUCE DENNILL Spud 3: Learning To Fly / Directed by John Barker / PG13 John Milton, aka Spud, returns to school as a senior in 1992, when South Africa is shrugging itself into a new identity and he – as a now 16-year-old boy-man – must do the same....
By BRUCE DENNILL Jeeves & Wooster In Perfect Nonsense / Directed by Steven Stead / Studio at Montecasino Theatre So there are grown men dressing in women’s clothing, presenting material that’s enjoyed cult popularity for decades. And downstairs,...
