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Theatre Review: Cats – Plenty In The Kitty, Or Quality, Fur Real

Theatre Review: Cats – Plenty In The Kitty, Or Quality, Fur Real

Feb 6, 2026 | chART

  By BRUCE DENNILL   Cats / Resident director: Duane Alexander / Teatro, Montecasino, Fourways, Johannesburg   TS Eliot wrote Old Possum’s Book Of Practical Cats in the 1930s, presumably for a lark, and the decision to use the collection’s fluffy poems...
Theatre Interview: Anthony Downing – The Last Five Years, Or Opulent Intimacy

Theatre Interview: Anthony Downing – The Last Five Years, Or Opulent Intimacy

Dec 6, 2022 | ARTicle

  By BRUCE DENNILL   The Last Five Years is a one-act drama-comedy telling the bittersweet love story of Catherine Hiatt, a struggling actress, and Jamie Wellerstein, an up-and-coming novelist. This old story of love-found and love-lost is told in a fresh...
Theatre Review: The Last Five Years – Melodic Discord, Or When Harmony Is In The Past

Theatre Review: The Last Five Years – Melodic Discord, Or When Harmony Is In The Past

Apr 3, 2022 | chART

By BRUCE DENNILL The Last Five Years / Directed by Paul Griffiths / Theatre On The Bay, Camps Bay, Cape Town   It’s difficult to tell a clear, detailed story through music alone. It’s difficult to sing said music while energetically acting, moving back and forth,...

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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.