Travel: Vanilla Is A Neutral Flavour or How A Milkshake Almost Destroyed Switzerland

Dec 21, 2023 | depART

By BRUCE DENNILL   I should never have taken the milkshake. I had just flown business class for the first time, and there was free stuff in the arrivals lounge at Zurich Airport. I had just had a shower in a bathroom named “Chicago”. Others were named “Boston”...

Theatre Reviews: Actress – Roles Realised, Or A Journey Towards Joy

Oct 2, 2023 | chART

Actress runs in the Studio Theatre at Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre in Fourways until 8 October, It is written by Talia Kodesh and Bruce Dennill with music and lyrics by Bruce Dennill, directed by Daniel Geddes and produced by Collett Dawson. It stars...

Opinion: If A Tree/Artist Falls/Plays In A Forest/Basement Parkade And Nobody Hears It/Him/Her, Does Anyone Care?

Feb 28, 2023 | ARTiculate

By BRUCE DENNILL   There’s a man playing a singing bowl and warbling along to the soothing sound it makes outside the bank of elevators that service Rosebank’s The Zone centre. He’s good. He has a couple of albums displayed for sale on the floor next to his...

Podcast: The Chorus – New Episode Up: Towards Utopia, Or Meeting Marvellous Martin

Sep 27, 2020 | ARTiculate

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] I have, along with Stefan Vos. a podcast, based on our discovery that we ‘can’t not art’. Listen as we tell fascinating stories/spout interesting inanities – you be the judge –...

Travel: Borderline Edginess, Or Taken For A Ride By Hitler

Jan 23, 2020 | depART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Donkeys are a regular sight in the Northern Cape. They’re exceptionally hardy creatures, which is useful when there’s not much to eat in the semi-desert scrub of the Kgalagadi, and when there...