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Theatre Review: Pests – Blood Is Thicker Than Common Sense, Or To Chav Or Chav Not

Theatre Review: Pests – Blood Is Thicker Than Common Sense, Or To Chav Or Chav Not

Aug 24, 2016 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Pests / Directed by Fiona Ramsay / POPArt Centre, Maboneng, Johannesburg   Watching Pests, it’s difficult to understand what would make the story appeal to playwright Vivienne Franzmann. A tale of two sisters, young women who have been...

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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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