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Theatre Review: The Tramp – Speaking Through Silence, Or Chaplin At The Bit

Theatre Review: The Tramp – Speaking Through Silence, Or Chaplin At The Bit

Jul 26, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Tramp / Directed by Amanda Bothma / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   Amanda Bothma and her team at Wêla Kapela Productions have figured out a storytelling formula that transcends the media they are working in, and...
Theatre Review: Master Harold… And The Boys – Injustice Served, Or Pain In The Rain

Theatre Review: Master Harold… And The Boys – Injustice Served, Or Pain In The Rain

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...
Theatre Review: Beauty And The Beast – Slightly Less Is Much More, Or As Sound As A Belle

Theatre Review: Beauty And The Beast – Slightly Less Is Much More, Or As Sound As A Belle

Nov 4, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Janice Honeyman’s Beauty And The Beast / Directed by Janice Honeyman / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein   With any beloved tradition – and Joburg Theatre’s annual pantomime is very much that; always one of the best-selling...
Theatre Review: Mad About The Boys – Delighting In The Debonair, Or Triple The Tunesmiths

Theatre Review: Mad About The Boys – Delighting In The Debonair, Or Triple The Tunesmiths

Mar 15, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Mad About The Boys / Directed by Amanda Bothma / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   East London-based singer and actor Daniel Anderson was introduced to Johannesburg audiences in last year’s critically lauded Vincent – a...
Theatre Review: Vincent – A Poignant Portrait, Or Worth Lending An Ear To

Theatre Review: Vincent – A Poignant Portrait, Or Worth Lending An Ear To

Jun 1, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Vincent / Directed by Amanda Bothma / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   Subtitled His Quest To Love And Be Loved, Vincent takes on an established theme – an examination of the life of influential but troubled painter...

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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).
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