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
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