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Theatre Review: First Love – Deficient Idyll, Or From Loss To Languor

Theatre Review: First Love – Deficient Idyll, Or From Loss To Languor

Dec 14, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   First Love / Directed by Qondiswa James / POPArt Theatre, Greenside, Johannesburg   Samuel Beckett’s nihilistic tendencies mean that this play’s protagonist being a tramp who enjoys hanging around in cemeteries feels about right....

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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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