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Kameron Steele

KAMERON STEELE  (1968 - )

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Kameron Steele was born in Duluth, Minnesota in 1968. After receiving his degree in Performance Studies from Northwestern University in 1991, he joined Tadashi Suzuki's SCOT company in Toga, Japan, where he worked as an actor, translator and assistant director. There he translated parts of Suzuki's book, What is Theatre? (Iwanami Shoten, 1991), sections of which are published in Paul Allain's The Art of Stillness: The Theatre Practice of Tadashi Suzuki (Methuen, 2002). In 1998 Mr. Steele began working at Robert Wilson's Watermill Center and has since performed in several of Mr. Wilson's productions including Persephone, The Days Before, and the title role in Prometheus (Megaron Mousikis, Athens). Mr. Steele's major work as a writer/director include his adaptations of Mishima Yukio's modern Noh plays Hanjo, and Aoi no Ue!, titled HANJO REDUX and AOI! respectively; his English stage adaptation of Terayama Shuji's film script Den'en ni Shisu, titled DEATH IN VACANT LOT!, and an original piece Saudade, inspired by Jorge Luis Borges' The Circular Ruins. Kameron currently lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, Ivana.

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below is a list of Kameron Steele's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

 Auto Da Fe         Death in Vacant Lot!

Auto Da Fe

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Masataka Matsuda

1st Produced:
Baruch Performing Arts Center, New York    07 Jan 2010

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Genre:
Translation

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Death in Vacant Lot!

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.
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Notes:
stage Adaptation of the 1974 Japanese film Death in the Fields.

1st Produced:
LMCC Swing Space, 15 Nassau Street, NY    2006

Organisations:
The South Wing

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Genre:
Adaptation

Parts:
Male:  6            Female:  7            Other:  -

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