Sep 1, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Saving Mr Banks / Directed by John Lee Hancock / PG Sometimes, you can’t make this stuff up. PL Travers, the author of the original Mary Poppins books and rabidly possessive holder of the rights to the stories, had to be courted and...
Aug 18, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Constellations / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / The Studio, Pieter Torien’s Montecasino Theatre It takes two to tango. In any relationship, there are a string of decisions made by each partner which influence the decisions made by the other...
Aug 16, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Lumineers’ music is, collectively, a slow grower. Once it’s under your skin, such a notion seems completely ridiculous, but up front, it takes a little while to find your groove as a new listener. Perhaps it’s because, as far as the roots...
Aug 6, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The title of this celebration of a quarter of a century of Cape Town theatre provides an encouraging start – a statement of intent in an industry in which it’s impossible to guarantee success and very difficult to make a decent living. That...
Aug 5, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Veep: The Complete Second Season / Created by Armando Iannucci / 16L I don’t like politics. It’s boring. And the parts that aren’t boring are broken. Lies, corruption, greed, theft and bad outfits. And that’s just the interns. Television...
Jul 27, 2014 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Other than about ten seconds of non-activated microphone in which what Albert Pretorius said into the device was easily audible anyway, there was nothing wrong with the performance of Three Little Pigs on Saturday 26 July in the Wits Theatre...
