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Theatre Interview: Anthony Downing – The Last Five Years, Or Opulent Intimacy

Theatre Interview: Anthony Downing – The Last Five Years, Or Opulent Intimacy

Dec 6, 2022 | ARTicle

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Last Five Years is a one-act drama-comedy telling the bittersweet love story of Catherine Hiatt, a struggling actress, and Jamie Wellerstein, an up-and-coming novelist. This old story of love-found and love-lost is told in a fresh...
Theatre Review: The Last Five Years – Melodic Discord, Or When Harmony Is In The Past

Theatre Review: The Last Five Years – Melodic Discord, Or When Harmony Is In The Past

Apr 3, 2022 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL The Last Five Years / Directed by Paul Griffiths / Theatre On The Bay, Camps Bay, Cape Town   It’s difficult to tell a clear, detailed story through music alone. It’s difficult to sing said music while energetically acting, moving back and forth,...
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).
Find his music on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube and wherever else you stream and download music.