The following interview is featured in the published play text of NewFoundLand by Junkets. Dylan McGarry (DM), educational sociologist and theatre maker, chats to…
neilcoppenOctober 18, 2018
PART 1 Greetings from a land where the sea water is the colour of an overpriced Caribbean cocktail, the locals all talk like Bob…
neilcoppenJuly 13, 2017
1.) What is your earliest memory of theatre? I was five or six years old when my parents took me to see the musical Singing in…
neilcoppenJuly 12, 2017
For Vaughn on his 27th Birthday You gave me a palace in clouds, a JHB skyline dressed in mist and moonlight, dust-storms and thunder showers.…
neilcoppenSeptember 20, 2015
I woke to a blizzard over New York City and the news that my high-school teacher and dear friend Jean McBean had passed. Sitting now…
neilcoppenFebruary 9, 2015
In May this year I was tasked with heading up a writing and theatre-making workshop with community theatre participants from in and around KwaZulu-Natal.…
neilcoppenSeptember 10, 2014
The following is an extract taken from the book: Theatre directing in South Africa which contains interviews with ten South African contemporary theatre directors/creators ;…
neilcoppenAugust 28, 2014
NewFoundLand is the latest play by Neil Coppen and focuses on the intertwining lives and dreams of two South African men Jacques: an Afrikaans anesthetist…
neilcoppenAugust 28, 2014
Inventory of a South Coast town.Aryan kids sipping on over sized strawberry milkshakesarcades rotting avocadosbananas box-wine bikinisbouffants bakkies crocodile skinned Christianscold slawComplimentary blow-job shooters that come…
neilcoppenAugust 28, 2014
IMPRESSSIONS OF FOGG A Log Book 26th July -5 August 2013 I cast my eyes up from the jetty and can just make out the…
neilcoppenOctober 3, 2013
The pleasures of falling and flight.