Jun 26, 2025 | chART
By BRUCE DENNILL Master Harold… And The Boys / Directed by Warona Seane / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg Athol Fugard’s 1982 play, set in 1950, still lands rather too close to the bone in 2025. It’s a simple, clever concept – one...
Oct 25, 2021 | chART
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Blood Knot / Directed by James Ngcobo / Mannie Manim Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg Blood Knot is such an intimate play – two people having often overlapping...
Feb 3, 2020 | ARTicle
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Siya Mayola stars as Willy, alongside Kai Luke Brummer as Hally and Desmond Dube as Sam in the new Fugard Theatre production of Athol Fugard’s masterpiece “Master...
May 13, 2018 | chART
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL The Train Driver / Directed by Charmaine Weir-Smith / Mannie Manim Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg 7 With The Train Driver being one of Athol...
Sep 30, 2014 | chART
By CAITLIN CLERK There are two things that annoy me about audiences in South Africa. The first thing is that they consider a local cast to be inferior to an international one. Nowhere close to true! The second is that they don’t support student productions....
