KAMERON STEELE (1968 - )
| Nationality: | American |
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Plays by Kameron Steele
Death in Vacant Lot! |
| 1st Produced: | LMCC Swing Space, 15 Nassau Street, NY | 2006 | ||
| Company: | The South Wing | |||
| 1st Published: | - | - | ||
| Genre: | - | Adaptation | Parts: | Male | 6 | Female | 7 |
| Parts Other: | - | |||
Notes: stage adaptation of the 1974 Japanese film Death in the Fields. | ||||
Synopsis: Terayama Shuji's 1974 film, Death in the Fields, depicts an adolescent boy in prewar Japan who runs away from home. The boy's coming of age is an allegory for Japan's loss of innocence during World War II. The piece is wrought with conflicting pastoral images which are alternately romantic and sexually brutal, realistic and fantastic. In Death in a Vacant Lot!, Kameron Steele is adapting the film as a Tommy-style rock opera employing modernist music and a 21st century American 'post Global Village' context. Terayama's text, translated into English by Steele, is staged with choreography, choral and solo song, tanka poetry, live and occasionally pre-recorded electric and acoustic music. Press Release | ||||
