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Theatre Interview: Anele Situlweni – Ruined, Or There’s Nothing Civil About War

Theatre Interview: Anele Situlweni – Ruined, Or There’s Nothing Civil About War

Aug 1, 2022 | ARTicle

  By BRUCE DENNILL Pulitzer Prize-winning play Ruined by Lynn Nottage makes its South African premier at the Market Theatre from 5 August – 4 September 2022, directed by Clive Mathibe. The ensemble includes film leading ladies and gents, Hlengiwe Lushaba Madlala,...
Theatre Review: The Color Purple – Purple Patch, Or Bursting Through The Glass Celie

Theatre Review: The Color Purple – Purple Patch, Or Bursting Through The Glass Celie

Feb 5, 2018 | chART

[vc_row][vc_column width=”3/4″][vc_column_text] By BRUCE DENNILL   The Color Purple / Directed by Janice Honeyman / Mandela, Joburg Theatre, Braamfontein, Johannesburg          8.5   The Color Purple is, on paper, hardly the stuff of a fun night...
Theatre Review: The Old Man And The Sea, Or Facing Off With An Ernest Enemy

Theatre Review: The Old Man And The Sea, Or Facing Off With An Ernest Enemy

Oct 4, 2017 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   The Old Man And The Sea / Directed by Jenine Collocott / Auto & General Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   Contagious Theatre is a pocket-sized theatre company – just three members, but oh, what talent in artistic director...

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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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