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Theatre Review: The Pillowman – Twisted And Tortured, Or Darkness Beyond The Telling

Theatre Review: The Pillowman – Twisted And Tortured, Or Darkness Beyond The Telling

Feb 20, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Pillowman / Directed by Ildi Kungl / Theatre On The Square, Sandton   Martin McDonagh is a singular playwright and screenwriter (The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, In Bruges, The Banshees of Inisherin), known for both the profound...
Theatre Interview: Sven Ruygrok – Ray Of Bite, Or The Beauty Of Drama

Theatre Interview: Sven Ruygrok – Ray Of Bite, Or The Beauty Of Drama

Aug 1, 2023 | ARTicle

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Winner of five Naledi Theatre Awards, The Beauty Queen of Leenane is a theatrical masterpiece by acclaimed Irish playwright Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin, In Bruge, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Hangmen)....
Theatre Review: The Beauty Queen Of Leenane – Irish Eyes Are Storming, Or Mag, But No Light

Theatre Review: The Beauty Queen Of Leenane – Irish Eyes Are Storming, Or Mag, But No Light

Oct 12, 2022 | chART

  The Beauty Queen Of Leenane / Directed by Charmaine Weir-Smith / Theatre On The Square, Sandton, Johannesburg   Living a long way from anywhere, having your moods informed mostly by monotony, being constantly lonely and generally having no real prospects...
Theatre Interview: Julie-Anne McDowell Hegarty – The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Or Irish Ayes

Theatre Interview: Julie-Anne McDowell Hegarty – The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Or Irish Ayes

Sep 11, 2022 | ARTicle

By BRUCE DENNILL How Now Brown Cow Productions prepares to take to the stage with its debut theatre production, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, on stage at Theatre on the Square in Sandton from 4 – 29 October 2022. The Beauty Queen of Leenane, a theatrical...

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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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