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...
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...
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...
