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Theatre Review: The Lesson – School’s Out(landish), Or Of Results And Reckoning

Theatre Review: The Lesson – School’s Out(landish), Or Of Results And Reckoning

Oct 15, 2022 | chART

  The Lesson / Directed by Greg Homann / Mannie Manim Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg   Influential playwright Eugene Ionesco’s perspectives often explore themes of alienation while also satirising ingrained social and psychological...
Theatre Review: Hansard – MP Promises, Or Caustic In The Cotswolds

Theatre Review: Hansard – MP Promises, Or Caustic In The Cotswolds

Aug 13, 2022 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL Hansard / Directed by Robert Whitehead / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   This play’s title refers to the official record of debates in the British parliament, and it’s a piece in which much of the dialogue – and that’s all...
Theatre Review: Cinderella – Screening With Laughter, Or Returning To Farce The Music

Theatre Review: Cinderella – Screening With Laughter, Or Returning To Farce The Music

Nov 10, 2021 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Cinderella / Directed by Janice Honeyman / The Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg   Delayed for a year because of the pandemic, the return of producer Bernard Jay and...
Theatre Review: Equus – Saddled With Expectations, Or How Is Happiness Harnessed?

Theatre Review: Equus – Saddled With Expectations, Or How Is Happiness Harnessed?

Apr 28, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text]By BRUCE DENNILL   Equus / Directed by Fred Abrahamse / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   The tagline on the poster for this production of Peter Shaffer’s classic play –...
Theatre Review: Freud’s Last Session – Make Believe, Or An Act Of God

Theatre Review: Freud’s Last Session – Make Believe, Or An Act Of God

Aug 31, 2017 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Freud’s Last Session / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Auto & General Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   It’s fantastic to see a piece of theatre that is unashamedly intellectual, focusing for almost its entire running time on...
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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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