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Theatre Review: So Long Marianne – Ragged Glory, Or Blonde Tribulation

Theatre Review: So Long Marianne – Ragged Glory, Or Blonde Tribulation

Nov 10, 2025 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   So Long Marianne: A Tribute To Marianne Faithfull / POPArt, Parkwood, Johannesburg   POPArt is a wonderfully versatile venue that can stage shows in the round or move lights and curtains around to have a more traditional stage area...
Theatre Review: Femme Is Fatale – Activism For The Abused, Or Tuned Into Tenacity

Theatre Review: Femme Is Fatale – Activism For The Abused, Or Tuned Into Tenacity

Aug 15, 2023 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Femme Is Fatale / Directed by Eloise Clasen / Mannie Manim Theatre, Market Theatre, Newtown, Johannesburg   ‘Cabaret’ usually refers to a song-and-dance show, often at a restaurant, with perhaps a short skirt here or some risqué...
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...
Cabaret Review: Gross Indecency – To Quote A Queen, Or To Diana For

Cabaret Review: Gross Indecency – To Quote A Queen, Or To Diana For

Oct 3, 2015 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL   Gross Indecency / Directed by Vanessa Cooke / PopArt, Maboneng, Johannesburg   This is a three-man cabaret – Roberts Colman and Whitehead as Rita Haywire and Lana Turna-me-ova and Tony Bentel as accompanist and sometime chirper Selma Nella...

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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).
Find his music on Spotify, iTunes, Youtube and wherever else you stream and download music.