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Theatre Review: Dear Evan Hansen – Fanciful Fondness, Or The Lie Is Cast

Theatre Review: Dear Evan Hansen – Fanciful Fondness, Or The Lie Is Cast

Mar 18, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Dear Evan Hansen / Directed by Greg Karvellas / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   Dear Evan Hansen is a compact, intimate story – a teenage boy struggles with loneliness and depression and gets caught up in events that...
Theatre Review: Witness For The Prosecution – Courting New Interest, Or Evidence Of Talent

Theatre Review: Witness For The Prosecution – Courting New Interest, Or Evidence Of Talent

Jun 5, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Agatha Christie’s Witness For The Prosecution / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   This production was originally set to be staged in 2020, with the Covid pandemic shutting...
Theatre Review: Same Time, Next Year – Clandestine Catalyst, Or Low Fidelity Love

Theatre Review: Same Time, Next Year – Clandestine Catalyst, Or Low Fidelity Love

Sep 25, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Same Time, Next Year / Directed by Christopher Weare / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   Bernard Slade’s comedic two-hander Same Time, Next Year was written in 1975, and the story begins around that...
Theatre Review: The Dress Code – A Fabric Of Feeling, Or Dress Up And Deliver

Theatre Review: The Dress Code – A Fabric Of Feeling, Or Dress Up And Deliver

May 13, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Dress Code / Directed by Alan Swerdlow / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   In a show put together as commentary on the impact – on our confidence, behaviour and social interactions – of the clothes we wear, it is...
Theatre Review: A Musical – Teenage Triumph, Or Of Rookies And Revelry

Theatre Review: A Musical – Teenage Triumph, Or Of Rookies And Revelry

Mar 17, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   A Musical / Directed by Owen Lonzar / King David Linksfield, Linksfield, Johannesburg   In the only example of misdirection in a hugely impressive amateur school production, a title that couldn’t be more generic suggests a...
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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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