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...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
