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Theatre Review: Othello – Cruelty In Cruise Control, Or Success In The Dark Arts

Theatre Review: Othello – Cruelty In Cruise Control, Or Success In The Dark Arts

Jun 1, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Othello / Directed by Claire Mortimer / UJ Arts Centre, Auckland Park, Johannesburg   Durban company ThinkTheatre has, for many years, produced high-quality productions of the Shakespeare plays prescribed as setworks in South...
Theatre Review: Alice In Wonderland – Compact Carroll, Or Laughing Next Door To Alice

Theatre Review: Alice In Wonderland – Compact Carroll, Or Laughing Next Door To Alice

Jan 30, 2024 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL Alice In Wonderland / Directed by Neka Da Costa / Studio, Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre. Fourways   Lewis Carroll’s timeless tale is a multi-layered narrative where magic and imagination and surrealism combine to create a story that has...
Music Review: Blu Piano Social Club – Hitting The Right Chords, Or Quality Azured

Music Review: Blu Piano Social Club – Hitting The Right Chords, Or Quality Azured

Apr 10, 2021 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL Blu Piano Social Club / Plug In Theatre / Peachy’s, 44 Stanley, Milpark, Johannesburg   Along with the obvious thrill of the onstage performances, part of what makes going to the theatre or a music venue so enjoyable is the connection with a...
Theatre Review: Forever Plaid – Pitch Perfect In Purgatory, Or Well Plaid, Sirs

Theatre Review: Forever Plaid – Pitch Perfect In Purgatory, Or Well Plaid, Sirs

Oct 24, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Forever Plaid / Directed by Jaco van Rensburg / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   There is really not much of a narrative arc in this jukebox musical...

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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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