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Theatre Review: First Love – Deficient Idyll, Or From Loss To Languor

Theatre Review: First Love – Deficient Idyll, Or From Loss To Languor

Dec 14, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   First Love / Directed by Qondiswa James / POPArt Theatre, Greenside, Johannesburg   Samuel Beckett’s nihilistic tendencies mean that this play’s protagonist being a tramp who enjoys hanging around in cemeteries feels about right....
Theatre Review: The Dumb Waiter – Incremental Descent, Or Slow Suspense

Theatre Review: The Dumb Waiter – Incremental Descent, Or Slow Suspense

Aug 14, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Dumb Waiter / Directed by Aidan Scott / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   Being aware that this play, like many of Harold Pinter’s works, is classified as ‘Theatre of the Absurd’, means that what unfolds on stage...
Theatre Review: The Return Of Elvis Du Pisanie – Pole Position, Or Beyond Exhausted

Theatre Review: The Return Of Elvis Du Pisanie – Pole Position, Or Beyond Exhausted

May 16, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Return Of Elvis Du Pisanie / Directed by Paul Slabolepszy / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre   This one-hander, first staged in 1992 starring its writer and the director of this production Paul Slabolepszy in the title role,...

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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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