State Theatre Archives - Bruce Dennill

Theatre Review: Beauty In The Broken – Young, At Heart, Or Poetry Post Pain

Oct 4, 2025 | Uncategorized

By BRUCE DENNILL Beauty In The Broken / Directed by Maralin Vanrenen / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg Gaynor Young is a byword for two things in South African theatre: tragedy (when considering the horrific fall into an open pit on...

Theatre Review: Saturday Night Fever – Fever Pitched, Or Mind Your Maneros

Sep 20, 2016 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL Saturday Night Fever / Directed by Greg Homann / Opera, South African State Theatre, Pretoria As the beginning of a run of shows that will, it is hoped, play an important role in the re-positioning of the State Theatre as not only...

Theatre Review: Blackbird – Past Problem Present, Or Adult Angst Augmented

Sep 13, 2015 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL Blackbird / Directed by Vanessa Cooke / Momentum Theatre, State Theatre, Pretoria Blackbird does not – spoiler alert! – have a happy ending. Neither does it have a happy middle or happy beginning, which doesn’t make it something to...

Theatre Review: Beauty In The Broken – Young, At Heart, Or Poetry Post Pain

Theatre Review: Saturday Night Fever – Fever Pitched, Or Mind Your Maneros

Theatre Review: Blackbird – Past Problem Present, Or Adult Angst Augmented

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