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Comedy Review: Namaste Bae – Blessings And Kombucha: Wildly Woke, Or Hyperbolic Hilarity

Comedy Review: Namaste Bae – Blessings And Kombucha: Wildly Woke, Or Hyperbolic Hilarity

Aug 11, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Namaste Bae: Blessings And Kombucha / Directed by Louw Venter / Hilton Arts Festival: Memorial Hall, Hilton College   Namaste Bae is one of several characters comedian and actor Rob Van Vuuren has developed after a (probably)...
Theatre Review: Île – Family Takes Atoll, Or Physically Funny

Theatre Review: Île – Family Takes Atoll, Or Physically Funny

Apr 4, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Île / Directed by Rob Van Vuuren / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   In an energetic autobiographical mish-mash of storytelling, physical comedy and gags about bodily functions, Cape Town performer Sophie Joans...
Comedy Review: Alan Committie – Live And Let Laugh, Or Bond Offers Good Returns

Comedy Review: Alan Committie – Live And Let Laugh, Or Bond Offers Good Returns

Apr 9, 2022 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL Alan Committie: Live And Let Laugh – No Time To Cry / Directed by Christopher Weare / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Montecasino, Fourways   With his usual show cycle somewhat accelerated as the easing of lockdown allows for theatres to at...
Comedy Review: The Thunderbirds – The Disaster Hen Party, Or Cackles In Triplicate

Comedy Review: The Thunderbirds – The Disaster Hen Party, Or Cackles In Triplicate

Dec 21, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   The Thunderbirds: The Disaster Hen Party / Beefcakes, Illovo, Johannesburg   The Thunderbirds are comedians Claudine Ullman, Nina Hastie and Gili Apter, combining their...
Comedy Review: Ndumiso Lindi – Big Boys Don’t Cry In July, Or Us And Them And All Of Us

Comedy Review: Ndumiso Lindi – Big Boys Don’t Cry In July, Or Us And Them And All Of Us

Jul 25, 2019 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   Ndumiso Lindi: Big Boys Don’t Cry In July / Auto & General Theatre On The Square / Sandton, Johannesburg   Ndumiso Lindi’s explanation for his new one-man show’s awkward title...
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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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