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Theatre Review: Spring Awakening – Seduced By Curiosity, Or An Urge To Be Heard

Theatre Review: Spring Awakening – Seduced By Curiosity, Or An Urge To Be Heard

Apr 15, 2024 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Spring Awakening / Directed by Sylvaine Strike / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   Ah, to see a story about teenagers where they’re not permanently staring at their phones and talking to each other in...
Theatre Review: The Promise – Paying The Bond, Or An Uncertain Assurance

Theatre Review: The Promise – Paying The Bond, Or An Uncertain Assurance

Oct 27, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Promise / Directed by Sylvaine Strike / John Kani Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg   “Promise” means both “a declaration or assurance that one will do something or a particular thing will happen” and “the quality...
Theatre Interview: Jenny Stead – Keeping A Promise, Or Booked For The Stage

Theatre Interview: Jenny Stead – Keeping A Promise, Or Booked For The Stage

Sep 14, 2023 | ARTicle

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Jenny Stead stars in The Promise On Stage, directed by Sylvaine Strike, which runs at the Homecoming Centre in Cape Town from 14 September to 6 October and then at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg from 18 October to 5 November.  ...
Theatre Review: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? – Va Va Vitriol, Or Four Crying Out Loud

Theatre Review: Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? – Va Va Vitriol, Or Four Crying Out Loud

Oct 17, 2022 | chART

  Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? / Directed by Sylvaine Strike / Pieter Toerien’s Montecasino Theatre, Fourways, Johannesburg   Wolf Britz’ set design for Edward Albee’s examination of success, failure, dysfunction and dominance is pink, flowing and...
Theatre Review: Firefly – Mooning Over Magic, Or A River Runs Through It

Theatre Review: Firefly – Mooning Over Magic, Or A River Runs Through It

Apr 4, 2022 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL Firefly / Directed by Toni Morkel / Flipside, Baxter Theatre, Cape Town   Some stories, and the way they are told, are difficult to explain. Not because they are vague or told in an obtuse manner, but because they are about tone and movement and...
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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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