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Interview with Neil Coppen writer/director of NewFoundLand

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

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Atlantic crossing Journals.

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

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Interview with South African Theatre magazine.

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

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The pleasures of falling and flight.

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

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Farewell Mrs MacBean

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

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WHOONGA WARS

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

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Extract from the book:Theatre Directing in South Africa

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

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NewFoundLand by Neil Coppen

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

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Inventory of a South Coast town.

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

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IMPRESSSIONS OF FOGG

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

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Interview with Neil Coppen writer/director of NewFoundLand

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Atlantic crossing Journals.

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Interview with South African Theatre magazine.

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Agony of insects

What to do with these days, how to escape the heat? these sounds-innsesant. Block the sun, muffle the ears, sit beneath ceiling fans. Write ,speculate,…

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Malema, Power and the Performative Turn

The following is an extract taken from an essay I wrote in 2008 exploring South African politics and the Performative turn. I print an extract…

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Philo’s Great Brain Drain

I consider myself a vaguely intelligent person, one who is able to exert a healthy degree of self control and discipline but why then, after…

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Letter to Aurora

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A Travel Rant- Gripes and Tripe

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Hip Without The Replacement

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Bolivia (part 1) Part Dickens, Part Dr Seus

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Sailing on the breath of a prehistoric yawn. Notes on Cambodia and Thailand

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Atlantic crossing Journals.

Interview with South African Theatre magazine.

The pleasures of falling and flight.

Farewell Mrs MacBean

WHOONGA WARS

Extract from the book:Theatre Directing in South Africa

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Inventory of a South Coast town.

IMPRESSSIONS OF FOGG

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