By BRUCE DENNILL In the musical Calling Us Home at Artscape, Grace (Devonecia Swartz), an African princess, flees a devastating war in her homeland, arriving penniless in the freezing, grimy docklands of an American city. The underworld of this city is ruled by the...
By BRUCE DENNILL Star-Crossed is an original musical inspired by the life of one South Africa’s most eccentric daughters, Elizabeth Klarer, who claimed she was abducted by an alien from the foothills of the Drakensberg, transported to a Utopian planet in...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Last Five Years is a one-act drama-comedy telling the bittersweet love story of Catherine Hiatt, a struggling actress, and Jamie Wellerstein, an up-and-coming novelist. This old story of love-found and love-lost is told in a fresh...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Trolley Dollies: The Triplets Of Belville / Produced by Deviant Theatricals / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg There is much that is unexpected about this three-hander. For one thing, it’s a drag show...
By BRUCE DENNILL August 2022 this year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, which saw the killing of 34 protesting mineworkers by police in Marikana, Northwest. To commemorate the harrowing event, the critically acclaimed Marikana – The...
