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Theatre Interview: Devonecia Swartz – Calling Us Home, Or Succeeding By Grace

Theatre Interview: Devonecia Swartz – Calling Us Home, Or Succeeding By Grace

Dec 29, 2022 | ARTicle

By BRUCE DENNILL In the musical Calling Us Home at Artscape, Grace (Devonecia Swartz), an African princess, flees a devastating war in her homeland, arriving penniless in the freezing, grimy docklands of an American city. The underworld of this city is ruled by the...
Interview: Alice Gillham – Build It And They Will Come, Or Expectations Displaced

Interview: Alice Gillham – Build It And They Will Come, Or Expectations Displaced

Sep 10, 2017 | ARTicle

By BRUCE DENNILL   Composer, producer and playwright Alice Gillham’s new musical Calling Me Home recently completed its first run – a brief installation at the Joburg Theatre in Braamfontein, where it met with mixed reviews. The piece was initially something...
Theatre Review: Calling Me Home – If Musicals Be The Food Of Love, Or Home Is Where The Art Is

Theatre Review: Calling Me Home – If Musicals Be The Food Of Love, Or Home Is Where The Art Is

Aug 20, 2017 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Calling Me Home / Directed by Magdalene Minnaar / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg   Large budget, large scale, large vision … and large risk. Calling Me Home is a new, original South African musical, joining a list of...

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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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