Tin Bucket Drum Questions with Neil Coppen
Neil Coppen's play, Tin Bucket Drum, was recently awarded the English Academy of Southern Africa Olive Schreiner Prize for Drama (2019). The Olive Schreiner Prize…
neilcoppenFebruary 18, 2019
Sailing on the breath of a prehistoric yawn. Notes on Cambodia and Thailand
I said goodbye to Scotty a few days ago, he left for Australia to see his father, and I've spent the remainder of my travels…
neilcoppenFebruary 16, 2019
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
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
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
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
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
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
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