Apr 18, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Pieces Of Me / Directed by Royston Stoffels / Barney Simon Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg In South Africa, given its appalling history, it’s unusual for a white person to struggle with their identity on the basis...
Jun 22, 2024 | ARTicle
National Arts Festival from 25 to 30 June, then runs at The Baxter from 10 to 27 July. Pieces Of Me is a moving, personal story of the unspoken histories that many people carry within them. An exploration of family secrets, with resonances that still echo today. It...
Sep 25, 2022 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Fordsburg’s Finest / Directed by Bobby Heaney / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg Written in 1996 and recently updated by its playwright and star Paul Slabolepszy, Fordsburg’s Finest does not – unfortunately – feel...
Mar 1, 2021 | ARTicle
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] In the late 1970s, as the apartheid government fought a desperate and dirty battle to stay in power, its security forces devised a chilling new tactic. A shadowy, top-secret unit called Delta 40 was...
Jun 14, 2020 | ARTicle
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL The Riviera is an SABC2 dramedy that explores the complexities of growing up in Cape Town during the 1980s. The series is set in the year 1989 and examines the experiences of a 12-year-old...
