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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 his duties.
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
mother, 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
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 wrote that Krueger's writing
was "delicious" and that he had achieved ...
"a veritable Mozart
of the written word." |
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| Orton T Norton
- An oddly beclad detective who comes across
as highly erratic, he undergoes frenetic changes
of mood and moves effortlessly from extreme
anger to subservience and back again. |
| Vanessa -
quintissentially lovely, weepy and melodramatic.
The beauty spot is optional. |
| Waiter - remains
poker-faced throughout and appears in gloves,
bow-tie and tails. |
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| Duration |
: 45 mins |
| Acts |
: 1 |
| Scenes |
: 7 |
| Principals |
: 2m, 1f |
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