By BRUCE DENNILL The Railway Children / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / National Children’s Theatre, Parktown, Johannesburg E Nesbit’s 1905 story has endured even as its themes – which involve war, espionage, poverty, family and community – have gone...
By BRUCE DENNILL The Hobbit / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / National Children’s Theatre, Parktown, Johannesburg The Hobbit is the slimmest volume in JRR Tolkien’s elaborately detailed telling of the story of Bilbo Baggins and his interactions with...
By BRUCE DENNILL Eléonore Godfroy is the CEO of the National Children’s Theatre in Parktown, Johannesburg. With Covid causing so many problems in theatre generally, where is children’s theatre placed now, as we emerge from the pandemic? Everybody is...
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Puss In Boots / Directed by Ivor Jones / National Children’s Theatre, Parktown, Johannesburg Where children’s stories often have an element of escapism, Puss In Boots takes its audience back...
[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL Peter Rabbit And Me / Directed by Ivor Jones / National Children’s Theatre, Parktown, Johannesburg Beatrix Potter would have been an incredible success story in any era, but as an...