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
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
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
Little Foot Early Concept Art
The following stills depict some initial concept art for the theatre production Little Foot which I am in the process of designing. The production is…
neilcoppenFebruary 13, 2012
Unpacking the baggage of history is not without comic drama by Niren Tolsi (First published in July 16th Mail & Guardian)
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neilcoppenJuly 16, 2011
Making a Mountain
Making a Mountain By Illa Thompson Published in Independent on Saturday Art column Charming, effervescent French-born innovator, designer, artist and maker of beautiful things, Xavier…
neilcoppenJune 20, 2011
COPPEN FINALISES CASTING FOR ABNORMAL LOADS
fictional Northern KwaZulu-Natal battle-field town known as Bashford, Coppen's latest play has been described as a whimsical (at times bloody) praise-poem to the province of…
neilcoppenMay 6, 2011
SCRUBBERS!
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
The Great Elephant Debacle
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