By BRUCE DENNILL Firefly / Directed by Toni Morkel / Flipside, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town Some stories, and the way they are told, are difficult to explain. Not because they are vague or told in an obtuse manner, but because they are about tone and movement and...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Inconvenience Of Wings / Directed by Lara Foot / Mannie Manim, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg This play starts with a stage filled with three broken people and ends, a devastating hour-and-a-half later, with those people,...
By BRUCE DENNILL Tobacco, And The Harmful Effects Thereof / Directed by Sylvaine Strike / Barney Simon Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg Given that it’s based on a Chekhov play (by way of William Harding’s adaptation), it’s not surprising...
By BRUCE DENNILL Crazy In Love / Directed by Rob Murray / Barney Simon Theatre, Market Theatre, Johannesburg There has been much weeping and gnashing of teeth over the state of straight theatre in South Africa, where venues are packed with musicals,...
