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Theatre Review: The Railway Children – Getting Lives Back On Track, Or A Platform For Talent

Theatre Review: The Railway Children – Getting Lives Back On Track, Or A Platform For Talent

Jun 22, 2025 | chART

  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...
Theatre Review: The Hobbit – Everybody’s Tolkien, Or Small But Perfectly Formed

Theatre Review: The Hobbit – Everybody’s Tolkien, Or Small But Perfectly Formed

May 14, 2023 | chART

  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...
Theatre Interview: Eléonore Godfroy – Child’s Plays, Or Selling The Drama

Theatre Interview: Eléonore Godfroy – Child’s Plays, Or Selling The Drama

Sep 7, 2022 | ARTicle

  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...
Theatre Review: Puss In Boots – A Cat With Connections, Or Creature Comforter

Theatre Review: Puss In Boots – A Cat With Connections, Or Creature Comforter

Mar 19, 2022 | chART

[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...
Theatre Review: Peter Rabbit And Me – Hop To It, Or Pottering With Expectations

Theatre Review: Peter Rabbit And Me – Hop To It, Or Pottering With Expectations

Sep 5, 2021 | chART

[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...
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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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