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Festival Review: RedFest 2019 – Intellect And Imagination, Or Selling The Drama

Festival Review: RedFest 2019 – Intellect And Imagination, Or Selling The Drama

Oct 11, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   RedFest 2019 / 4-5 October / Redhill School, Morningside, Johannesburg   For a Johannesburg-based arts fan, getting to festivals that offer a good mix of theatrical and other...
Comedy Review: Blame It On Bianca Del Rio – Oy, Roy, Or Disdain Dressed Up

Comedy Review: Blame It On Bianca Del Rio – Oy, Roy, Or Disdain Dressed Up

Aug 12, 2018 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Blame It On Bianca Del Rio / Teatro, Fourways, Johannesburg               5   American comedian, actor and drag queen Bianca Del Rio (real name Roy Haylock) is known for – indeed,...
Comedy Review: John Vlismas – Brain Dump: Feel The Lobe, Or Stuck In The Medulla With You

Comedy Review: John Vlismas – Brain Dump: Feel The Lobe, Or Stuck In The Medulla With You

Aug 5, 2018 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Brain Dump / Starring John Vlismas / Studio, Pieter Torien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg                    8   Many otherwise enthusiastic comedy fans regularly...
Comedy Review: John Vlismas – The Good Racist: New Reckoning Via Reading, Or Beyond The Knowledge Black-Out

Comedy Review: John Vlismas – The Good Racist: New Reckoning Via Reading, Or Beyond The Knowledge Black-Out

Oct 28, 2017 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   The Good Racist / Starring John Vlismas / Studio, Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   Disclaimer: on the night attended for review, a malfunctioning...
Comedy Review: The Grilling of a Lifetime – Do You Want Vries With That? Or Basting And Beyond

Comedy Review: The Grilling of a Lifetime – Do You Want Vries With That? Or Basting And Beyond

Aug 17, 2016 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   The Grilling of a Lifetime: Casper de Vries / Grillmaster – John Vlismas / Parker’s Comedy & Jive, Montecasino, Johannesburg   A roast (or grill, if the name must be changed to satisfy some puerile pettiness) is defined as: “an event...

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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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