Nov 8, 2023 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Janice Honeyman’s Peter Pan / Directed by Janice Honeyman / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein A return to well-known source material – Janice Honeyman directed different versions of a Peter Pan pantomime in 2007 and 2014 –...
Oct 28, 2023 | chART
By ROB HOFMEYR, LISA WITEPSKI, NIGEL WILLIS Secret Empires by Peter Schweitzer Verwoerd: My Journey Through Family Betrayals by Wilhelm Verwoerd The Four Horsemen: Tthe Discussion That Sparked An Atheist Revolution by Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam...
Oct 27, 2023 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL The Promise / Directed by Sylvaine Strike / John Kani Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg “Promise” means both “a declaration or assurance that one will do something or a particular thing will happen” and “the quality...
Oct 18, 2023 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Joburg Ballet: Don Quixote / Staged by Angela Malan / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg All classical ballets involve stories within stories, and Don Quixote features, among others, the interwoven tales of...
Oct 2, 2023 | chART
Actress is written by Talia Kodesh and Bruce Dennill with music and lyrics by Bruce Dennill, directed by Daniel Geddes and produced by Collett Dawson. It stars Talia Kodesh and Nathan Ro. Victory in red heels BY ROBYN SASSEN HOW MANY BEAUTIFUL dreams have you left by...
Sep 25, 2023 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Same Time, Next Year / Directed by Christopher Weare / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg Bernard Slade’s comedic two-hander Same Time, Next Year was written in 1975, and the story begins around that...
