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Theatre Review: The Promise – Paying The Bond, Or An Uncertain Assurance

Theatre Review: The Promise – Paying The Bond, Or An Uncertain Assurance

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...
Theatre Interview: Albert Pretorius – Tien Duisend Ton, Or Letting Excitement Win

Theatre Interview: Albert Pretorius – Tien Duisend Ton, Or Letting Excitement Win

Jan 30, 2023 | ARTicle

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Translated into Afrikaans and directed by Nico Scheepers, Tien Duisend Ton brings together two of South Africa’s foremost talents in Albert Pretorius and Cintaine Schutte, who star as a couple seriously considering  procreation in the...
Theatre Review: Tien Duisend Ton, Or Seeing The Forest For The Pleas

Theatre Review: Tien Duisend Ton, Or Seeing The Forest For The Pleas

Jan 22, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Tien Duisend Ton / Directed by Nico Scheepers / Mannie Manim Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg   Sometimes when we experience feelings we have not yet developed a language to express, we compensate by talking a lot....
Film Review: Steve Smith – Tampering With TV, Or It’s Almost Cricket, Mate

Film Review: Steve Smith – Tampering With TV, Or It’s Almost Cricket, Mate

Jul 1, 2020 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Steve Smith / Directed by Jemma Kahn / Virtual National Arts Festival   This is an odd little film, which is part of its appeal. Jemma Kahn has made a fascinating, brilliant career out...
Theatre Review: Three Little Pigs – Well-Done Pork, Or Squealing Like A Stuck Allegory

Theatre Review: Three Little Pigs – Well-Done Pork, Or Squealing Like A Stuck Allegory

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...

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Bruce Dennill is a BASA/National Arts Festival Arts Writing Awards Silvear Award winner (Opinion and Features), a South African Music Awards judge and a recording artist. His first play, the pocket musical Actress,for which he wrote the music and lyrics and co-wrote the script, was the recipient of a Broadway World South Africa Award for Best New Play Or Musical and a Naledi Theatre Award for Best Lead Actress In A Musical (Talia Kodesh).
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