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Theatre Review: Mamma Mia – Take A Chance On This, Or Who’s Your Daddy?

Theatre Review: Mamma Mia – Take A Chance On This, Or Who’s Your Daddy?

May 16, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Mamma Mia / Directed by Janice Honeyman / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways   It doesn’t matter what your personal feeling is about the ABBA-driven stage show Mamma Mia (and it does tend to be one of the more polarising major musicals):...
Theatre Review: If A Tree Falls – Absence Of Accountability, Or The Root Of Grief

Theatre Review: If A Tree Falls – Absence Of Accountability, Or The Root Of Grief

Jun 20, 2022 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL If A Tree Falls / Directed by Janice Honeyman / The Theatre Linden, Johannesburg Grief affects everyone in different ways and requires processing in different ways. Playwright Penny Kreitzer, a South African who moved to the US, lost her daughter in...
Theatre Review: Shirley Valentine – A Holiday’s As Good As A Change, Or Greece Is The Word

Theatre Review: Shirley Valentine – A Holiday’s As Good As A Change, Or Greece Is The Word

Jan 30, 2022 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Shirley Valentine / Directed by Gina Shmukler / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways   Willy Russell’s 1986 play has not aged a day, and for once, audiences might wish that it had, as its theme is a sad one in which redemption...
Theatre Interview: Natasha Sutherland – Shirley Valentine, Or Letting Go And Building Up

Theatre Interview: Natasha Sutherland – Shirley Valentine, Or Letting Go And Building Up

Jan 15, 2022 | ARTicle

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Natasha Sutherland stars as Shirley Valentine in VR Theatrical’s production of the play of the same name, written by Willy Russell and directed by Gina Shmukler.   This is a story...
Theatre Review: Harry Sideropoulos – Seriously?!, Or When Satire Seems Sensible

Theatre Review: Harry Sideropoulos – Seriously?!, Or When Satire Seems Sensible

Jun 16, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Seriously?! / Directed by Gina Shmukler / Crystal Room, Killarney Country Club, Johannesburg   “Seriously?!” – it’s an exclamation of incredulity and frustration, mumbled (or...
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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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