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

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August Apocalypse

Beauty in my review mirror Squinting nonchalant into the sun Friday 5 o'clock traffic Head cocked in half thought Lips shaping the lyrics to some…

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THE INDOMITABLE ‘MR MACKEE’

Neil Coppen flies into London to attend a screenwriting Seminar by one the world's most revered and feared mentor's -Robert MacKee.In a lecture hall in…

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WITHNEIL & I

I'm sitting in the stuffy heated room of a cottage somewhere in Joburgh, Fourways. The corporation has drained most, they wonder around supermarkets with cigarette…

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Ballad of -Frankie da Bum goes to Bollywood

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26Â° 12′ 15.6″ S 28Â° 3′ 43.7″ E

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Farewell Mrs MacBean

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Learning To Listen (A week with the KZNPO)

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Unpacking the baggage of history is not without comic drama by Niren Tolsi (First published in July 16th Mail & Guardian)

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

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The pleasures of falling and flight.

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Inventory of a South Coast town.

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