Whose voice is it anyway?
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2015
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225695 , vital:49249 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/1013929X.2015.1086195"
- Description: This essay surveys a number of different interpretations of the metaphor of “voice”. It begins by exploring the use of free writing exercises as a means of nurturing the emergence of physical (audible) voice in creative writing classes before assessing some of the ramifications and implications of the trope, both diachronically and synchronically. A key issue of this discussion is whether voice is regarded as individual or social.
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- Date Issued: 2015
Performing mindful creativity
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225574 , vital:49236 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.5920/pam.2017.05"
- Description: This essay is grounded in the practical experience of three South African theatre practitioners who have all had some experience of mindfulness. It's based on interviews conducted with a performer (Andrew Buckland), a director (Janni Young), and a designer (Illka Louw). The aim of my conversations with these three was to explore ways in which mindfulness continues to enhance artistic practises, seeing our dialogues as a springboard to exploring intersections between creative practise and theories about mindfulness. To assist me in this process, I also interviewed Rob Nairn - co-founder of both the Mindfulness Association (UK) and Mindfulness Africa (RSA) - about key issues highlighting convergences between creativity and mindfulness. Some of the issues which are addressed include: the artist's relationship with fear, differing definitions of the value of conceptualisation, as well as whether or not the monkey mind (that is, the wandering mind) might hamper or help creativity.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Reader in comedy
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2017
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225684 , vital:49248 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2017.1409523"
- Description: I really enjoyed this selection of excerpts on comedy. In 64 extracts, this comprehensive anthology covers 2375 years of mainly philosophical texts in 375 dense pages. From 360 BCE (Plato’s Philebus) to just the other day (Romanska’s Disability in Tragic and Comic Frame [2015]), this is an immense resource covering a lot of ground. The extracts don’t all apply specifically to theatre, though this is where the discussion begins, with the ancients. Later on, as new genres emerge, there are also entries relating to prose, film, story-telling and stand-up; but mainly, the writings have to do with laughter itself, and the role and function of comedy.
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- Date Issued: 2017
Revolutionary trends at the National Arts Festival 2017 (an overview)
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2018
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225563 , vital:49235 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2017.1407025"
- Description: My 2017 Fest Everybody's festival is different. Each individual charts their own course in navigating this vast, unwieldy, multidisciplinary festival of festivals that happens every year in the Eastern Cape. Since the long running print version of the festival paper, Cue went under this year when Standard Bank withdrew funding, I wasn't officially reviewing and this freed me up to play a bit more and to see things that appealed to me, rather than having to attend shows from a sense of obligation.
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- Date Issued: 2018
A Century of South African Theatre
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229623 , vital:49694 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2020.1716515"
- Description: In many ways, this is an updated repackaging of Loren Kruger's seminal work of 20 years ago, Plays, Pageants and the Drama of South Africa (1999). The material has been extensively revised and reworked using similar categories as the first book, including: pageantry and representations of nationhood, neo-colonial theatre, urbanization and its consequences; the rise of Afrikaans theatre; theatres of resistance; black consciousness; and contemporary theatre. Some of these sections have been extended (such as a longer discussion of HIE Dhlomo) and there is also a completely new section which has not been published elsewhere on current theatre trends (cleverly titled “The Constitution of South African Theatre at the Present Time”).
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- Date Issued: 2019
Betty, Zorg and Me
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225552 , vital:49234 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/00138398.2019.1636529"
- Description: This essay reminisces about the author’s encounters with Betty Blue at three different stages in his life. It reflects on stylistic elements of the film (as exemplar of Jean-Jacques Beineix’s Cinéma du look) as well as its portrayal of gender, sexuality, artistic aspiration and the concept of freedom. The essay also ruminates on the concept of having favourites and the synchronicity required to make a magical movie.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Woza Albert! (Student Editions)
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2019
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229598 , vital:49691 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2018.1560975"
- Description: Publishing Woza Albert! back in 1983 was a smart move by Methuen Publishing, since it went on to become South Africa’s most canonical dramatic text. As Temple Hauptfleisch points out in his introduction to this new edition, the play has become one of the most anthologized and produced of all South African plays, a regular prescribed work…particularly so in the new curricula introduced since 1994…a major work in the South African literary canon, one of the most studied and produced of the plays from the turbulent 1980s.
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- Date Issued: 2019
Forays into contemporary South African theatre
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2020
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/229578 , vital:49689 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.1080/10137548.2021.1963112"
- Description: Trying to keep up with what is going on in South African theatre today is an endlessly renewing process. The word ‘foray’ has associations of brief incursions into foreign territory. It’s an almost hesitant word, a venture into unexplored terrain. This hesitation feels apt in the sense that (at the time of writing), any description of a pre-Covid theatre is bound to feel strange. The landscape has shifted, and nobody is quite sure how things will look in a year from now. Nevertheless, this is a rich compendium of relatively recent theatre, as seen from within the country and also from the vantage of a global perspective. Almost all of the essays are drawn from a 2017 conference held in Brussels at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, called: ‘New Stage Idioms: South African Drama, Theatre and Performance in the Twenty-first Century.’Although the tone remains scholarly, the inclusion of different kinds of writers – not only academics but activists, playwrights and journalists – prevents the work from becoming overly dry.
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- Date Issued: 2020
Nothing forever
- Authors: Krueger, Anton
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225533 , vital:49233 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.5920/pam.1013"
- Description: Thank you to everybody who made contributions to this bumper 2021 Special Issue on Improvisation. Many thanks to our peer reviewers and especially to co-editors Deborah and Daniel for their help with the selection and editing process which has now culminated in a baker’s dozen texts. With contributions from Australia, South Africa, and New Zealand, as well as from France, the USA and the UK, the issue includes five interviews, four articles, two book reviews, a reflection and a score.
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- Date Issued: 2021
‘Don't educate them out of educating themselves’
- Authors: Krueger, Anton , Wunder, Albert
- Date: 2021
- Subjects: To be catalogued
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/225481 , vital:49226 , xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.5920/pam.1005"
- Description: Al Wunder's biography, in his own words: I had four lucky breaks that precipitated my becoming a teacher of improvised movement theatre. Between the ages of eight and fourteen I broke my right leg four different times. In 1962, I began modern dance classes with Alwin Nikolais as a physical therapy. His choreography and improvisation sections of class inspired me to teach and perform professionally. I spent eight years studying, teaching, choreographing, and performing with Nikolais. 1970 saw me move to the San Francisco Bay area where I opened a dance studio teaching Nikolais dance technique and improvisation. In 1971, I joined forces with Terry Sendgraff and Ruth Zaporah creating The Berkeley Dance Theater and Gymnasium. My focus was to create a way to teach dance technique through improvisation. I met my Australian wife, Lynden Nicholls, in 1981 when she came to study Motivity at Terry’s studio in Berkeley. In 1982, I moved to Melbourne, Australia where Lynden and I set up a dance studio. My focus changed from teaching dance technique improvisationally to teaching improvised movement theatre performance
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- Date Issued: 2021