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...
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...
[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...
[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...
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]Verwoerd: My Journey Through Family Betrayals by Wilhelm Verwoerd, published by Tafelberg, is available now. This excerpt is published by permission. I was well prepared for my first foray on foreign...
