(Pics by Sean Laurenz)1.) Where did your love for theatre originate, and when did you know that this was what you wanted to do professionally?It's…
neilcoppenOctober 27, 2010
Pictures by Paul Fetters Travelling into Durban's CBD from the Berea, one is met by two iconic and historic city landmarks. In the foreground the…
neilcoppenAugust 4, 2010
The scrape of their spades recalls your shoes on the driveway, heavy, home from work. Around five, winter dusk, sky murky purple. Often I'd pass…
neilcoppenJuly 19, 2010
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…
neilcoppenApril 9, 2010
The creative process can be hell on earth. I won't lie to you, trying to tell a great story is the hardest thing I know.…
neilcoppenMarch 23, 2010
A renowned hip-hop poet and Graffiti artist friend of mine and I recently engaged into a drunken dinner-party debate/row over the ubiquitous tagging of public…
neilcoppenMarch 9, 2010
Tree Boy tells a deceptively simple story: set in 1960's South Africa, an eleven year old boy's mother dies, his father is unable to cope…
neilcoppenMarch 7, 2010
Stupidity plummeted to new lows in Durban this week (with Sunday newspaper headlines that even satirists like Haibo might have been hard pressed to come…
neilcoppenFebruary 16, 2010
It is strange to be standing this side of the stage, when not so long ago, I was sitting in blazer and tie and sweating…
neilcoppenFebruary 14, 2010