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ANTON ROBERT KRUEGER
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anton Krueger. anton Krueger's plays have been performed in six countries. Living in Strange Lands was nominated for an FNB Vita award in 2002, and was the runner up for the Olive Schreiner award in 2006.Mediocrity won the national SaNCTa competition in 2000 and represented South Africa at the Mondial du Teater in Monaco in 2002. It also won the Welsh National Drama Festival in 2006. Mr. Krueger's other published works include poems, short stories and academic essays; as well as reviews on theatre, film and books. His unpublished works include shopping lists, dream journals and indecipherable notes scrawled on the back of envelopes. He lectures in the Department of English, University of Pretoria.
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In The Blue Beaker Living In Strange Lands: The Testimony Of Dimitri Tsafendas Mediocrity Revelation Of The Velvet City Vanessa And The VanguardIn The Blue Beaker
Synopsis:
In this macabre farce, a distressed Rene Mengham visits his psychiatrist, Dr. Hemming Bekker, with a single plea: to be institutionalized at Happy Vales, a magical mystery mental haven where one can spend the rest of one's days in pleasant surroundings . . . that is, if Happy Vales actually existed, which Dr. Bekker persistently denies. Driven to despair, Rene contemplates suicide, a course all too many of Dr. Bekker's patients seem to end up taking. . .
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1st Produced:
Post Punk Productions (Pretoria, , South Africa) 1997
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Post Punk Productions
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Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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Genre:
40-50 min Dark comedy
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Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: 2 males, 1 female (3 actors possible: 1-3 males, 0-1 females)
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Top of PageLiving In Strange Lands: The Testimony Of Dimitri Tsafendas
Synopsis:
In 1966, Dimitri Tsafendas irrevocably altered the course of South African history by assassinating Henrik Verwoerd, the founder of apartheid. He was classified insane and remained incarcerated until his death in 1999. He was never recognized by any of the various freedom movements in South Africa, including the African National Congress, as having achieved anything significant. His motivations have never been fully explored, and whether his act was one of madness or morality remains a mystery. This thoroughly researched play approaches Tsafendas as tragic hero, and presents the possibility that he may well have been a sane man living in a strange land.
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1st Produced:
Grahamstown National Arts Festival (Grahamstown, , South Africa) 2001
Organisations:
Post Punk Productions
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Playscripts, Inc - New York -
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Genre:
55-75 min Play/Drama
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Male: 2 Female: - Other: 2 males (1-2 actors possible: 1-2 males, )
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Top of PageMediocrity
Synopsis:
This comedy, with its exaggerated, absurd characters, borrows elements from commedia Del' arte and the burlesque traditions to send up doctors, wives, brutality and death. Kenaf has just learnt that he's about to die and his life changes dramatically as he finally stands up to his domineering Wife, the bullying Brute and the condescending Doctor. The setting for this piece, being essentially metaphysical and absurd, takes place beyond the realms of realism and all that is required is a table and a chair.
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Winner of the AMFEST Festival At the Wits Theatre, "Mediocrity" represented South Africa At the Mondial du Theatre in Monaco in July, 2002. It has recently been translated into Norwegian And will soon have its first run in Berne in northern Norway
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Post Punk Productions
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Genre:
Comedy One act
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 1 Other: doubling possible
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Top of PageRevelation Of The Velvet City
Synopsis:
The end of the world, as predicted by the Book of Revelations, is at hand, and the Righteous are making ready to rocket up into the skies in search of a better life elsewhere, leaving the meek, the rabble to inherit what remains of the earth. This is a rather sinister portrayal of the murky divide between good and evil, passive and active, order and chaos
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The Velvet City was performed in Pretoria And Grahamstown. The Mail & Guardian said it was "sure to be An offbeat highlight" (06/96) of the National Arts Festival
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Pretoria -
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Post Punk Productions
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Genre:
apocalyptic science fiction fantasy
Parts:
Male: 5 Female: 3 Other: -
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Top of PageVanessa And The Vanguard
Synopsis:
The action for this unlikely comedy occurs in the sultry, smoky setting of a private and intensely personal investigation into the wherabouts of a missing person. The client is a remarkably beautiful woman, however, instead of the suave, gravel-voiced detective we may have come to expect, we encounter Orton T. Norton - a frenetic, obsessive and somewhat eccentric private eye. Our private detective's services are required by the quintessentially lovely Vanessa in order to track down her missing boyfriend, one Griffen Krell. The somewhat adolescent Orton T. Norton, however, is rather more intent on persuading Vanessa to sleep with him, than in actually performing any of the duties required of his office. He appears as a despairingly high-pitched Kafka in a Pythonesque scenario, and his bold entreaties are ultimately met with varying degrees of annoyance by the alluring damsel in distress. as the investigations proceed, and in between hysterical telephone conversations with his mum, the indefatigable Orton deliberately delays the proceedings in order to bring him closer to his goal. But when the mysterious Mr Krell eventually emerges, it seems his misadventures have only just begun
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In the year 2000, Vanessa And the Vanguard was performed in Johannesburg And Pretoria to great Acclaim by Post Punk Productions, the same year in which it received A number of nominations At AMFEST. Renowned South African Actress And critic Lizz Meiring w
1st Produced:
Johannesburg 2000
Organisations:
Post Punk Productions
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Genre:
Comedy One act
Parts:
Male: 2 Female: 1 Other: -
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