Anton Krueger
Biographic Data
| ID | 6597451 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anton Krueger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anton |
| FAMILY NAME | Krueger |
| SIGNATURE | KRUEGER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rhodes University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6288-8901 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
All wounds speak – performing trauma/witnessing grief
Paul Mason in Conversation with Anton Krueger
Revolutionary Trends at the National Arts Festival 2017 (an overview)
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. Si
Reader in comedy
Magnet Theatre
Whose Voice is it Anyway? Implications of Free Writing
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
The politics of interweaving performance cultures
According to the former president of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), Brian Singleton, the study of '[i]nterculturalism as a practice and a theory gained currency with Richard Schechner's anthropologically-inspired new discipline of performance studies' (p. 79). Schechner's new discipline led to the formation of the annual Performance Studies International (PSI) conferences, and earlier this year I attended the twentieth i…
The pump room
The implacable grandeur of the stranger
South Africa is a nation of strangers, an uneasy mishmash of heterogeneous economic groupings, cultures and languages, a nation of marginalised minorities awkwardly pasted together. Numerous attempts have been made by its government to define and bolster a sense of nationalism and to create a sense of cohesion; however, a shadow side of this appeal for national identity has been the rise in xenophobic violence precipitated by the steady influx of…
Part II
A white man in exile
This article explores intersections between understandings of masculinity and nationalism. Etymologically, ‘patriotism’ refers to a love for a fatherland and a patriarchal order; it includes notions of loyalty, honour and a range of qualities often associated with conceptions of masculinity. But if gender remains fixed to these normative constructions, what happens to one's sense of masculine identity when the national state changes? My interest …
Fashionably ethnic
This essay highlights a shift in South African literature towards ideals of individualism and explores some of the paradoxes inherent in the competing claims of individuality and heritage. The characters created by Greig Coetzee in Happy Natives are examined as examples of identities constructed in terms of tradition, function and indoctrination. The comic potential of these incongruent identity constructions is then elaborated by means of Henri …
On the wild, essential energies of the forest
Intuition / Intellect—Sex / Sensibility
In contrast to the vast array of books which deal with the craft of acting and stagemanagement, \nthere seem to be far fewer books which attempt to describe what directors \ndo. The most common contemporary approach seems to be to present a collection of \ninterviews, such as In Contact with the gods? Directors talk theatre (edited by Maria M. \nDelgado and Paul Heritage, 1996) and On directing (edited by Gabriella Giannachi and \nMary Luckhurst,…
On being bad
Extracted from text ... ~ 143 . . . . REVIEWS their way to tour interesting buildings. All this gives Sachs the chance to dwell on his ideas about art and aesthetics, and the role of South African cultural production within the interna- tional arts community. This too is of consider- able interest, especially given that he played a pivotal role in the design of Constitution Hill and in the selection of artworks that fill the court building. But t…
The Drama of Hunting and Healing
In Schechner's ground-breaking work he examines a wide range of religious and aesthetic rituals and practices which he reads as performative, or dramatic, activities. This essay adds another anthropological activity to the many diverse practices he has already explored, and speculates about one of the very earliest forms of drama. It considers the transformative rituals of hunting and healing which have been practised by the San (who are also ref…
Theatre in South Africa — ‘an endangered species’
Imprisoned by conviction
Imprisoned by conviction
The Drama of Hunting and Healing
In Schechner's ground-breaking work he examines a wide range of religious and aesthetic rituals and practices which he reads as performative, or dramatic, activities. This essay adds another anthropological activity to the many diverse practices he has already explored, and speculates about one of the very earliest forms of drama. It considers the transformative rituals of hunting and healing which have been practised by the San (who are also ref…
Theatre in South Africa — ‘an endangered species’
On the wild, essential energies of the forest
Intuition / Intellect—Sex / Sensibility
In contrast to the vast array of books which deal with the craft of acting and stagemanagement, \nthere seem to be far fewer books which attempt to describe what directors \ndo. The most common contemporary approach seems to be to present a collection of \ninterviews, such as In Contact with the gods? Directors talk theatre (edited by Maria M. \nDelgado and Paul Heritage, 1996) and On directing (edited by Gabriella Giannachi and \nMary Luckhurst,…
On being bad
Extracted from text ... ~ 143 . . . . REVIEWS their way to tour interesting buildings. All this gives Sachs the chance to dwell on his ideas about art and aesthetics, and the role of South African cultural production within the interna- tional arts community. This too is of consider- able interest, especially given that he played a pivotal role in the design of Constitution Hill and in the selection of artworks that fill the court building. But t…
Fashionably ethnic
This essay highlights a shift in South African literature towards ideals of individualism and explores some of the paradoxes inherent in the competing claims of individuality and heritage. The characters created by Greig Coetzee in Happy Natives are examined as examples of identities constructed in terms of tradition, function and indoctrination. The comic potential of these incongruent identity constructions is then elaborated by means of Henri …
A white man in exile
This article explores intersections between understandings of masculinity and nationalism. Etymologically, ‘patriotism’ refers to a love for a fatherland and a patriarchal order; it includes notions of loyalty, honour and a range of qualities often associated with conceptions of masculinity. But if gender remains fixed to these normative constructions, what happens to one's sense of masculine identity when the national state changes? My interest …
The pump room
The implacable grandeur of the stranger
South Africa is a nation of strangers, an uneasy mishmash of heterogeneous economic groupings, cultures and languages, a nation of marginalised minorities awkwardly pasted together. Numerous attempts have been made by its government to define and bolster a sense of nationalism and to create a sense of cohesion; however, a shadow side of this appeal for national identity has been the rise in xenophobic violence precipitated by the steady influx of…
Part II
Whose Voice is it Anyway? Implications of Free Writing
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
The politics of interweaving performance cultures
According to the former president of the International Federation of Theatre Research (IFTR), Brian Singleton, the study of '[i]nterculturalism as a practice and a theory gained currency with Richard Schechner's anthropologically-inspired new discipline of performance studies' (p. 79). Schechner's new discipline led to the formation of the annual Performance Studies International (PSI) conferences, and earlier this year I attended the twentieth i…
Magnet Theatre
Reader in comedy
Revolutionary Trends at the National Arts Festival 2017 (an overview)
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. Si
All wounds speak – performing trauma/witnessing grief
Paul Mason in Conversation with Anton Krueger
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