Jul 23, 2025 | ARTicle
By BRUCE DENNILL Empatheatre, in collaboration with The Baxter, the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Unruly Natures research project, presents a return, full-length season of Unruly by popular demand. It stars Andrew Buckland, accompanied on stage by jazz...
Apr 4, 2022 | chART
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...
Jul 1, 2017 | chART
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,...
Feb 17, 2016 | chART
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...
Apr 11, 2015 | chART
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,...
