Anton Robert Krueger
Encyclopedia
Born in Phalaborwa, South Africa on 28 September 1971, Anton Robert Krueger is a South Africa
n playwright
, poet
and academic
. His plays have been staged in South Africa, as well as in England, Wales, Australia, the U.S.A., Monaco, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile. He has published under the pseudonyms of Martin de Porres, Robert Krueger, A.R. Krueger, Perd Booysen (in collaboration with Pravasan Pillay) and Sybrand Baard (in collaboration with Werner Pretorious).
"Anton Krueger’s first novella is a perceptive look into the world of two young boys whose changing hormones coincide with a country going through its own rebirth." Janet van Eeden http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&news_id=83583&cause_id=1270
"Light and Dark in mixture of memoir and novel" Review in Mail and Guardian by Jane Rosenthal. http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-06-29-light-and-dark-in-mixture-of-memoir-novel
Reviews
“Anton Krueger’s lucid and sharp interrogation of recent South African play texts should interest far more than the handful of dwindling theatre historians who are still live and well in South Africa...With elegant wit and an almost boyish playfulness that is rare in such academic exercises, Krueger argues that plays can be used not only to describe identity but that theatre is also a place to create identities.”
“[W]ell written....maps an important field of research with intellectual rigour and exemplary fair-mindedness, and negotiates a complicated route through a plethora of contentious artistic manifestoes and critical opinions with sophistication and maturity.”
“[Experiments in Freedom] shows Krueger's ability to bring an insightful critical perspective not only towards the play texts that he examines, but to theory itself...The style of writing is lucid and avoids obfuscation, the '(mis)management' of syntax and tortured logic, common to some authors writing in a post modernist vein. This in no way distracts from the complexity of the subject matter or the profound insights that the text offers.”
“[Experiments in Freedom] has been a pleasure to read...The writing exudes clarity and the arguments are cogently rehearsed...[It] guides the reader on a journey that is concomitantly innovative, challenging and informative...written eloquently and lucidly – it deserves a valuable place in its field [and] should be a compulsory text in South African and international libraries.”
“The issues [Experiments in Freedom] addresses...could not be more relevant or topical...Krueger strikes a pleasing balance between the scholarly and the polemical...His tendentiousness is transparent, bold, even refreshing: it carries the force of his conviction and his experience as a South African and a dramatist in his own right...A further strength is that his style is clear and accessible throughout. He succeeds in being scholarly without resorting to jargon or the kind of stodgy academic writing which one encounters all too frequently.”
Reviews
"A comedy and social commentary piece that runs like a pair of freshly laddered stockings… once you’re in it, there’s no going back!...The show is an all-round success in presentation and script. A funny and entertaining piece of theatre, that is well performed and constantly keeps the cogs of the mind turning and churning."
Artsmart, review by Shika Budhoo. http://news.artsmart.co.za/2010/06/naf-shaggy.html
"An entertaining show consisting of six monologues which provide a satirical commentary of life in modern South Africa...a number of different characters [are] played with great dexterity by Zanne Solomon and Tristan Jacobs." Thomas Boughey, Cue
's assassin Dimitri Tsafendas
. The play was awarded a special trophy by the South African Community Theatre Association in 2001, and was nominated for South Africa's highest stage award, the FNB/Vita prize. http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=176 Living in Strange Lands has been staged all over South Africa, as well as in Venezuela. In 2009 it was revived for the Proyecto festival of South African theatre in Buenos Aries, Argentina.
Reviews
A review (translated from the Spanish) by Nicolás Fernandez Bravo.
"The stunning performance of Renos Nicos Spanoudes in the role of Dimitri Tsafendas – the descendent of a Greek father and a Swazi mother who assassinated, by stabbing, Dr Henrik Verwoerd - could make Living in Strange Lands the best play of the Festival. The impeccable text that narrates the construction of a person “without a group”, transcends the particular boundaries of the irrationality of the South African segregationism to pose questions about identity and home, in a universal geography. The mastery with which Spanoudes interprets the radical doubt about the madness transports us to the same nucleus of classification systems that still today guide the actions that are hidden by the control of the whole State. The investigative work of Anton Krueger (Imaginary Stage) is evident in the play and he has majestically achieved the combination of historic rigor with a magnificent Freudian theatrical realisation."
Tsafendas received positive reviews in a number of South African newspapers, with The Star
stating: "This docu-drama doubles as a study in personal and political madness...ring[s] with social and personal truths...harrowing ritualistic imagery and a luminously intelligent text...a dramatic tour de force."http://www.playscripts.com/reviews.php3?playid=176
A sample of the text is available from Playscripts, Inc.
of New York. http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=176
in Grahamstown
, and the 969 Festival in Johannesburg
.
Synopsis
Two brothers meet after many years apart. Albert has been living in London for eight years and is returning to South Africa
to meet a girl he's fallen in love with over the internet. Adler, on the other hand, has been getting ahead in the not so New South Africa and his communications company is thriving. So Albie is looking for love while Adi is expecting to meet his new franchisee, but the identities of the two girls are mistaken for each other, leading to an increasingly embarrassing series of encounters helped along by awry sms’s and seductive internet chat streams. In this way worlds of romance and commerce collide as issues of identity – be it ethnic, national, or sexual – become increasingly complicated by a series of misunderstandings. After the air has cleared and everybody thinks they've finally figured out who's who, a final twist reveals they may have preferred the confusion.
Reviews
"An excellent piece, a comedy of errors and a commentary on the modern human condition. Thoroughly enjoyable, particularly for those of us who have found that our lives are intricately linked with technology, especially internet chat room hook-ups." (Lee-Ann Knowles, Cue 06-28-2008)
"A delightful comedy of errors in which Alan Ayckbourn-style farce meets chatroom culture, this play provides a refreshing moment in the midst of the festival’s intensity." (Theresa Edlmann, 06-29-2008) http://cue.ru.ac.za/comedy/2008/first-farce-about-facebook.html An interview with Anton Krueger on Litnet about Chatter. http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=50513&cat_id=180
http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/shploader.cgi?plays/oneact/drama/axis.htm It has never been performed.
1997 / 2009 - In the Blue Beaker: A Comedy about Suicide http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=33 (New York: Playscripts, Inc.
)
An interview with the cast of Blue Beaker. http://m.zoopy.com/video/15w8/getting-inside-the-blue-beaker?return=/tag/anton%2Bkrueger
1999 - Vanessa and the Vanguard http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/shploader.cgi?plays/oneact/comedy/vanessa.htm London: Plays & Musicals.)
2000 - Mediocrity http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/shploader.cgi?plays/oneact/absurd/mediocrity.htm (London: Plays & Musicals)
2002 - The Importance of Being Thabo
2003 - Sasha's Secret Language
2004 - Dialectics # 1
Two short plays for adolescents “Caitlyn and Thandi” and “Behind the Bicycle Sheds” appear in What shall we do now and other one-act plays. Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa. (2009).
, South Africa. http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/Poetry_Africa.htm
Krueger was the English poetry editor on Litnet: http://www.litnet.co.za for a number of years. During his time there, Michelle McGrane conducted this interview with him. http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_leader&leader_id=2805&cause_id=1270
As part of the Pretoria based poetry collective "Bekgeveg" Krueger appeared at venues in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Alberton and at major Afrikaans festivals including the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
and Aardklop
, between 1998-2003.
Krueger has also experimented with a range of other genres, including short stories
http://www.oulitnet.co.za/fiction/krueger02.asp, lyrics
, manifestos http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2007/03/10/manifesto-of-amateurism/ and physical theatre
texts.
His first collection of poetry, Everyday Anomalies is due for release in 2011.
comedy The Velvet City, and Wole Soyinka
's play The Invention. His fat electric sound appears in Maritz van den Berg's alternative Afrikaans
poetry band "Die Plesier Parade". http://www.reverbnation.com/regteplesierparade
. Some of his works appear at Vagabondage http://vagabondagepress.com/81101/V1I6AT2.html and on the kagablog. http://kaganof.com/kagablog/category/contributors/anton-krueger/
2002 - Eugene's Dream of the Absa Building...screened as part of South African edition of Unlikely Stories. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvlngCz1liw
2004 - Mind Your Head. A comedy sketch show pilot made for television by Neurotic Ninja Studios. (unreleased) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4DFapQaJAQ
2007 - Krueger makes a cameo appearance in Bakgat as Dominee Paulus. http://www.bakgatfliek.co.za/
2008 - Anzan and the Visitors - An odd, slightly surreal, slightly perverse film written and directed by Krueger, about two inept burglars who befriend their victim. It was shown at the national Arts Festival and at Coal Stove in Johannesburg.
2009 - Krueger features in Johan Botha's debut film That Filmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g4aRVMycFU&feature=related
2009 - Tuesday - Written and Directed by Anton Krueger, and made with students from the Rhodes Department of Drama, this surreal short (27 min) film has been screened at the National Arts Festival, the Durban International Film Festival (in 2010) as well as at a festival of South African Cinema in Buenos Aries.
Anton Krueger has a DLitt from the Department of English, University of Pretoria
. He is a lecturer in the Department of Drama, Rhodes University
.
http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/SA-INT.HTM
http://www.oulitnet.co.za/relax/martin_de_porres_in.asp
http://www.african-writing.com/four/antonkrueger.htm
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2008/img/PA2008-catalogue1-web-bioonly.pdf
Plays:
Playscripts, Inc.
, New York: http://www.playscripts.com/author.php3?authorid=26
Plays & Musicals, London: http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/frame.htm
Other Writing
"On memory" - http://www.oulitnet.co.za/youngwriters/ar_krueger.asp
"Falling between the lines" - http://www.itch.co.za/?article=208
Interviews:
http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=50513&cat_id=180
http://www.oulitnet.co.za/ricochet/anton_krueger.asp
http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&news_id=7536&cause_id=1270
http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=26753&cat_id=248
Academic:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a793590508
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a780338505
https://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/bitstream/2263/5731/1/Stopford_Intuition(2006).pdf
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Experiments-in-Freedom—Explorations-of-Identity-in-Recent-South-African-English-Play-Texts1-4438-1425-3.htm
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
n playwright
Playwright
A playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
, poet
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and academic
Academia
Academia is the community of students and scholars engaged in higher education and research.-Etymology:The word comes from the akademeia in ancient Greece. Outside the city walls of Athens, the gymnasium was made famous by Plato as a center of learning...
. His plays have been staged in South Africa, as well as in England, Wales, Australia, the U.S.A., Monaco, Venezuela, Argentina and Chile. He has published under the pseudonyms of Martin de Porres, Robert Krueger, A.R. Krueger, Perd Booysen (in collaboration with Pravasan Pillay) and Sybrand Baard (in collaboration with Werner Pretorious).
Sunnyside Sal
Sunnyside Sal (2010) is a jauntily narrated novella set in the tumultuous early 1990s, when a whole generation in South Africa were discovering that everything they’d been taught to believe was wrong. Fuelled by his reckless bravado and post-punk philosophy, Sal plunges into extreme situations, but his innocent experiments in rebellion lead him increasingly into hazardous realms. Although ultimately a tragic tale, Sunnyside Sal is borne up throughout by an exuberant humour."Anton Krueger’s first novella is a perceptive look into the world of two young boys whose changing hormones coincide with a country going through its own rebirth." Janet van Eeden http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&news_id=83583&cause_id=1270
"Light and Dark in mixture of memoir and novel" Review in Mail and Guardian by Jane Rosenthal. http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-06-29-light-and-dark-in-mixture-of-memoir-novel
Experiments in Freedom
Winner of the 2011 Rhodes Vice-Chancellor's Book Award, Experiments in Freedom Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Experiments-in-Freedom--Explorations-of-Identity-in-Recent-South-African-English-Play-Texts1-4438-1425-3.htm examines ways in which identities have been represented in recent South African play texts published in English. It begins by exploring descriptions of identity from various philosophical, psychological and anthropological perspectives and elaborates ways in which drama is uniquely suited to represent – as well as to effect – transformations of identity. In exploring the fraught terrain of identity studies, the book examines a selection of published play texts in terms of five different discourses of identity – gender, nationalism, ethnicity, syncretism and race. Instead of building a sustained thesis throughout his text, Krueger writes in short bursts about a multiplicity of topics, extending his explorations rhizomatically into the crevices of a new South African society loathe to relinquish its stranglehold on the politics of identity. (from the blurb).Reviews
“Anton Krueger’s lucid and sharp interrogation of recent South African play texts should interest far more than the handful of dwindling theatre historians who are still live and well in South Africa...With elegant wit and an almost boyish playfulness that is rare in such academic exercises, Krueger argues that plays can be used not only to describe identity but that theatre is also a place to create identities.”
-
- (Homann, Greg. 2010. “Stages of Identity”. Mail & Guardian. Friday, July 2:19.) http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-07-06-stages-of-identity
“[W]ell written....maps an important field of research with intellectual rigour and exemplary fair-mindedness, and negotiates a complicated route through a plethora of contentious artistic manifestoes and critical opinions with sophistication and maturity.”
-
- Prof. Robert Gordon, Goldsmiths College, University of LondonUniversity of London-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
- Prof. Robert Gordon, Goldsmiths College, University of London
“[Experiments in Freedom] shows Krueger's ability to bring an insightful critical perspective not only towards the play texts that he examines, but to theory itself...The style of writing is lucid and avoids obfuscation, the '(mis)management' of syntax and tortured logic, common to some authors writing in a post modernist vein. This in no way distracts from the complexity of the subject matter or the profound insights that the text offers.”
-
- Prof. Fred Hagemann, Department of Drama, University of PretoriaUniversity of PretoriaThe University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
- Prof. Fred Hagemann, Department of Drama, University of Pretoria
“[Experiments in Freedom] has been a pleasure to read...The writing exudes clarity and the arguments are cogently rehearsed...[It] guides the reader on a journey that is concomitantly innovative, challenging and informative...written eloquently and lucidly – it deserves a valuable place in its field [and] should be a compulsory text in South African and international libraries.”
-
- Prof. Marcia Blumberg, York UniversityYork UniversityYork University is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It is Canada's third-largest university, Ontario's second-largest graduate school, and Canada's leading interdisciplinary university....
, Toronto
- Prof. Marcia Blumberg, York University
“The issues [Experiments in Freedom] addresses...could not be more relevant or topical...Krueger strikes a pleasing balance between the scholarly and the polemical...His tendentiousness is transparent, bold, even refreshing: it carries the force of his conviction and his experience as a South African and a dramatist in his own right...A further strength is that his style is clear and accessible throughout. He succeeds in being scholarly without resorting to jargon or the kind of stodgy academic writing which one encounters all too frequently.”
-
- Prof. David Medalie, Department of English, University of PretoriaUniversity of PretoriaThe University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
- Prof. David Medalie, Department of English, University of Pretoria
Shaggy
In collaboration with Pravasan Pillay, the Shaggy stories are ironic comedy monologues generally narrated by wingers, whiners, wimps and wankers. A number of stories appeared in A Look Away magazine during 2010, and six stories were performed at the National Arts Festival in the same year. A collection of 14 Shaggy stories is due for release in mid-2011.Reviews
"A comedy and social commentary piece that runs like a pair of freshly laddered stockings… once you’re in it, there’s no going back!...The show is an all-round success in presentation and script. A funny and entertaining piece of theatre, that is well performed and constantly keeps the cogs of the mind turning and churning."
Artsmart, review by Shika Budhoo. http://news.artsmart.co.za/2010/06/naf-shaggy.html
"An entertaining show consisting of six monologues which provide a satirical commentary of life in modern South Africa...a number of different characters [are] played with great dexterity by Zanne Solomon and Tristan Jacobs." Thomas Boughey, Cue
Living in Strange Lands
Krueger's most critically acclaimed work to date is Living in Strange Lands (also known as Tsafendas) - a play about Hendrik VerwoerdHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd , commonly identified as H.F. Verwoerd, was Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassination in 1966...
's assassin Dimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas assassinated the "Architect of Apartheid", South African Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 6 September 1966...
. The play was awarded a special trophy by the South African Community Theatre Association in 2001, and was nominated for South Africa's highest stage award, the FNB/Vita prize. http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=176 Living in Strange Lands has been staged all over South Africa, as well as in Venezuela. In 2009 it was revived for the Proyecto festival of South African theatre in Buenos Aries, Argentina.
Reviews
A review (translated from the Spanish) by Nicolás Fernandez Bravo.
"The stunning performance of Renos Nicos Spanoudes in the role of Dimitri Tsafendas – the descendent of a Greek father and a Swazi mother who assassinated, by stabbing, Dr Henrik Verwoerd - could make Living in Strange Lands the best play of the Festival. The impeccable text that narrates the construction of a person “without a group”, transcends the particular boundaries of the irrationality of the South African segregationism to pose questions about identity and home, in a universal geography. The mastery with which Spanoudes interprets the radical doubt about the madness transports us to the same nucleus of classification systems that still today guide the actions that are hidden by the control of the whole State. The investigative work of Anton Krueger (Imaginary Stage) is evident in the play and he has majestically achieved the combination of historic rigor with a magnificent Freudian theatrical realisation."
Tsafendas received positive reviews in a number of South African newspapers, with The Star
The Star (South Africa)
The Star is a daily newspaper based in Gauteng, South Africa. It has a readership of 840 000 and is owned by Independent News & Media. It gained worldwide attention in 2006 when it published survey results according to which about twenty percent of South African men have raped a woman in...
stating: "This docu-drama doubles as a study in personal and political madness...ring[s] with social and personal truths...harrowing ritualistic imagery and a luminously intelligent text...a dramatic tour de force."http://www.playscripts.com/reviews.php3?playid=176
A sample of the text is available from Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc. is a New York City-based publisher of new plays and musicals, founded by brothers and playwrights Doug and Jonathan Rand. Included in the exclusive Playscripts catalog are over 1,600 plays and musicals by over 800 authors....
of New York. http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=176
Chatter
A comedy of mistaken identity which won the Gauteng 2007 Performing Arts Network of South Africa Festival of Staged Readings. In 2008 it was performed at the National Arts FestivalNational Arts Festival
The National Arts Festival is one of the most important events on the South African cultural calendar, and the biggest annual celebration of the arts on the African continent....
in Grahamstown
Grahamstown
Grahamstown is a city in the Eastern Cape Province of the Republic of South Africa and is the seat of the Makana municipality. The population of greater Grahamstown, as of 2003, was 124,758. The population of the surrounding areas, including the actual city was 41,799 of which 77.4% were black,...
, and the 969 Festival in Johannesburg
Johannesburg
Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
.
Synopsis
Two brothers meet after many years apart. Albert has been living in London for eight years and is returning to South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
to meet a girl he's fallen in love with over the internet. Adler, on the other hand, has been getting ahead in the not so New South Africa and his communications company is thriving. So Albie is looking for love while Adi is expecting to meet his new franchisee, but the identities of the two girls are mistaken for each other, leading to an increasingly embarrassing series of encounters helped along by awry sms’s and seductive internet chat streams. In this way worlds of romance and commerce collide as issues of identity – be it ethnic, national, or sexual – become increasingly complicated by a series of misunderstandings. After the air has cleared and everybody thinks they've finally figured out who's who, a final twist reveals they may have preferred the confusion.
Reviews
"An excellent piece, a comedy of errors and a commentary on the modern human condition. Thoroughly enjoyable, particularly for those of us who have found that our lives are intricately linked with technology, especially internet chat room hook-ups." (Lee-Ann Knowles, Cue 06-28-2008)
"A delightful comedy of errors in which Alan Ayckbourn-style farce meets chatroom culture, this play provides a refreshing moment in the midst of the festival’s intensity." (Theresa Edlmann, 06-29-2008) http://cue.ru.ac.za/comedy/2008/first-farce-about-facebook.html An interview with Anton Krueger on Litnet about Chatter. http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=50513&cat_id=180
Axis
Axis is a black comedy ignited by the frisson between media, terrorism and fundamentalism.http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/shploader.cgi?plays/oneact/drama/axis.htm It has never been performed.
Other Plays
1996 - The Velvet Cityhttp://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/shploader.cgi?plays/twoact/scifi/velvetcity.htm (London: Plays & Musicals)1997 / 2009 - In the Blue Beaker: A Comedy about Suicide http://www.playscripts.com/play.php3?playid=33 (New York: Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc. is a New York City-based publisher of new plays and musicals, founded by brothers and playwrights Doug and Jonathan Rand. Included in the exclusive Playscripts catalog are over 1,600 plays and musicals by over 800 authors....
)
An interview with the cast of Blue Beaker. http://m.zoopy.com/video/15w8/getting-inside-the-blue-beaker?return=/tag/anton%2Bkrueger
1999 - Vanessa and the Vanguard http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/shploader.cgi?plays/oneact/comedy/vanessa.htm London: Plays & Musicals.)
2000 - Mediocrity http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/cgi-bin/shop/shploader.cgi?plays/oneact/absurd/mediocrity.htm (London: Plays & Musicals)
2002 - The Importance of Being Thabo
2003 - Sasha's Secret Language
2004 - Dialectics # 1
Two short plays for adolescents “Caitlyn and Thandi” and “Behind the Bicycle Sheds” appear in What shall we do now and other one-act plays. Johannesburg: Macmillan South Africa. (2009).
Other Writing
Anton Krueger's poems have appeared in a range of South African literary magazines and journals, including Itch, Botsotso, Green Dragon, New Coin, Laugh it Off, Litnet, Big Bridge, Incwadi, African Writing Online and Alookaway. In 2008 he participated in Poetry Africa, hosted by the Centre for Creative Arts in DurbanDurban
Durban is the largest city in the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal and the third largest city in South Africa. It forms part of the eThekwini metropolitan municipality. Durban is famous for being the busiest port in South Africa. It is also seen as one of the major centres of tourism...
, South Africa. http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/Poetry_Africa.htm
Krueger was the English poetry editor on Litnet: http://www.litnet.co.za for a number of years. During his time there, Michelle McGrane conducted this interview with him. http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_leader&leader_id=2805&cause_id=1270
As part of the Pretoria based poetry collective "Bekgeveg" Krueger appeared at venues in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Alberton and at major Afrikaans festivals including the Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees
The Klein Karoo Nasionale Kunstefees is an Afrikaans language arts festival that takes place yearly in the South African town of Oudtshoorn. The festival includes both the visual and the performing arts and is officially recognized by the South African government as a national arts festival...
and Aardklop
Aardklop
Aardklop is an annual South African arts festival held since 1998 in the town of Potchefstroom in the North-West province of South Africa. This cultural festival incorporates predominantly Afrikaans theatre, dance, music, cabaret and visual arts, and is held in a variety of venues in and around the...
, between 1998-2003.
Krueger has also experimented with a range of other genres, including short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
http://www.oulitnet.co.za/fiction/krueger02.asp, lyrics
Lyrics
Lyrics are a set of words that make up a song. The writer of lyrics is a lyricist or lyrist. The meaning of lyrics can either be explicit or implicit. Some lyrics are abstract, almost unintelligible, and, in such cases, their explication emphasizes form, articulation, meter, and symmetry of...
, manifestos http://kaganof.com/kagablog/2007/03/10/manifesto-of-amateurism/ and physical theatre
Physical theatre
Physical theatre is used to describe any mode of performance that pursues storytelling or drama through primarily and secondarily physical and mental means. There are several quite distinct but indistinct traditions of performance which all describe themselves using the term "physical theatre",...
texts.
His first collection of poetry, Everyday Anomalies is due for release in 2011.
Music
Anton Krueger plays the classical guitar and has written music for plays, including his own apocalyptic science fictionScience fiction
Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...
comedy The Velvet City, and Wole Soyinka
Wole Soyinka
Akinwande Oluwole "Wole" Soyinka is a Nigerian writer, poet and playwright. He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature, where he was recognised as a man "who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence", and became the first African in Africa and...
's play The Invention. His fat electric sound appears in Maritz van den Berg's alternative Afrikaans
Afrikaans
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poetry band "Die Plesier Parade". http://www.reverbnation.com/regteplesierparade
Photography
Anton Krueger has exhibited work at Kyk Gallery in PretoriaPretoria
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. Some of his works appear at Vagabondage http://vagabondagepress.com/81101/V1I6AT2.html and on the kagablog. http://kaganof.com/kagablog/category/contributors/anton-krueger/
Short Films
1999 - Unenlightenment...screened at online film fest FilmGarten.com in Hamburg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtWWc_WvTjI2002 - Eugene's Dream of the Absa Building...screened as part of South African edition of Unlikely Stories. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvlngCz1liw
2004 - Mind Your Head. A comedy sketch show pilot made for television by Neurotic Ninja Studios. (unreleased) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4DFapQaJAQ
2007 - Krueger makes a cameo appearance in Bakgat as Dominee Paulus. http://www.bakgatfliek.co.za/
2008 - Anzan and the Visitors - An odd, slightly surreal, slightly perverse film written and directed by Krueger, about two inept burglars who befriend their victim. It was shown at the national Arts Festival and at Coal Stove in Johannesburg.
2009 - Krueger features in Johan Botha's debut film That Filmhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4g4aRVMycFU&feature=related
2009 - Tuesday - Written and Directed by Anton Krueger, and made with students from the Rhodes Department of Drama, this surreal short (27 min) film has been screened at the National Arts Festival, the Durban International Film Festival (in 2010) as well as at a festival of South African Cinema in Buenos Aries.
Academic Research
Anton Krueger has presented papers at conferences on philosophy, literature and theatre in South Africa, as well as in Australia, Russia, the Netherlands, Finland, China, Argentina, Germany and Portugal. He has published articles in the South African Theatre Journal, English in Africa, Scrutiny2, Current Writing and has reviewed books and drama for The Sunday Independent, the Mail and Guardian, Wordstock and Cue.Anton Krueger has a DLitt from the Department of English, University of Pretoria
University of Pretoria
The University of Pretoria is a multi campus public research university located in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa...
. He is a lecturer in the Department of Drama, Rhodes University
Rhodes University
Rhodes University is a public research university located in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, established in 1904. It is the province’s oldest university, and is one of the four universities in the province...
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Links
Poetry:http://www.bigbridge.org/BB14/SA-INT.HTM
http://www.oulitnet.co.za/relax/martin_de_porres_in.asp
http://www.african-writing.com/four/antonkrueger.htm
http://www.ukzn.ac.za/cca/images/pa/PA2008/img/PA2008-catalogue1-web-bioonly.pdf
Plays:
Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc.
Playscripts, Inc. is a New York City-based publisher of new plays and musicals, founded by brothers and playwrights Doug and Jonathan Rand. Included in the exclusive Playscripts catalog are over 1,600 plays and musicals by over 800 authors....
, New York: http://www.playscripts.com/author.php3?authorid=26
Plays & Musicals, London: http://www.playsandmusicals.co.uk/frame.htm
Other Writing
"On memory" - http://www.oulitnet.co.za/youngwriters/ar_krueger.asp
"Falling between the lines" - http://www.itch.co.za/?article=208
Interviews:
http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=50513&cat_id=180
http://www.oulitnet.co.za/ricochet/anton_krueger.asp
http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&news_id=7536&cause_id=1270
http://www.litnet.co.za/cgi-bin/giga.cgi?cmd=cause_dir_news_item&cause_id=1270&news_id=26753&cat_id=248
Academic:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a793590508
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a780338505
https://repository.up.ac.za/upspace/bitstream/2263/5731/1/Stopford_Intuition(2006).pdf
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Experiments-in-Freedom—Explorations-of-Identity-in-Recent-South-African-English-Play-Texts1-4438-1425-3.htm