PREVIOUS PERFORMANCES
CULTUREMART at HERE Arts Center
Thurs-Sat January 10, 11, 12; 8:30pm
"The Gospel According to Jack Vitrolo!"
Above, Andy Shulman as "Jack", photo Eriko Ogawa
Directed by Kameron Steele
The Gospel According to Jack Vitrolo is an experimental tragi-comedy which examines the conflict between the individual and the health care establishment. Following the struggle of one man's search for his estranged wife, kidnapped by paramedics in an ambulance and now lost in a large municipal hospital, The Gospel According to Jack Vitrolo highlights the way our personal secrets and taboos get publicized, categorized and exploited by corporate doctors and nurses obsessed with controlling our body/mind/spirit with bills, pills, and sex.
To be developed through the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP).
"The Gospel According to Jack Vitrolo" is also sponsored by The Japan Foundation www.jfny.org/ and The Watermill Center www.watermillcenter.org.
AOI!
In a bold new adaptation of Yukio Mishima's modern Noh play, "The Lady Aoi", TSW distills the 1950's shingeki naturalism of the original text with their own brand of nouveau expressionism to expose the extremely conflicted nature of Mishima's psyche.
Based on Lady Aoi by Yukio Mishima
Adapted by Ivana Catanese
Directed by Kameron Steele
Music by Marc Appart
Sound Design by Jimmy Garver
Featuring Gillian Chadsey, Craig Dolezel,Catherine Friesen, Nathan Guisinger, Julie Kline, Sophie Nimmannit, Brian Nishii, Ricardo Riethmuller, Natasha Thomas
Japan Society
May 18 & 19, 2007
The Prelude '07 Festival at The Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, New York September 27th
(The first workshop performance of Lady Aoi was presented at Institut del Teatre in Barcelona with Margalida Grimalt, Matxalen de Pedro Larrea and Jose Guirado)
work in progress
Death in a Vacant Lot!
Directed by Kameron Steele
In October, 2006 The South Wing and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) presented a staging of renowned Japanese theatre artist Terayama Shuji’s master workDeath in the Country. This work-in-progress performance, titled DEATH IN VACANT LOT!, opened on October 4 and ran for two weeks at 15 Nassau St. in lower Manhattan as part of LMCC’s Swing Space Series.
Terayama’s films, plays and poetry – wildly popular in Japan – have rarely been seen in the West. For the first time in more than two decades, New Yorkers will be treated to a production of one of the 20th century’s most provocative and rebellious writers.
The bulk of The South Wing’s rehearsal process for DEATH IN VACANT LOT! will take place at the Watermill Center, avant-garde visionary Robert Wilson’s theatre laboratory in Southampton, NY. For the first time ever, Wilson is opening the doors of his Long Island Center to nurture the work of a young, leading-edge theatre company.
read more about Terayama Shuji and DiVL!
 Hanjo (REDUX)
A reworking of TSW's original HANJO at CRS Studio Theatre, NYC
February, 2006. The new adaptation featured interactive video design, and an audience ramp.
Credits for the CRS Performance:
Produced By: The South Wing
Directed by: Kameron Steele
Written by: Yukio Mishima
Featuring: Gillian Chadsey, Ivana Catanese, David Ponce
Composer: Marc Apart
Interactive Video Design: Scott Piscitelli
Set Design: Mariano Marquez
Audience Area Design: Christian Wassman
Light Design: Ayumu "Poe" Saegusa
Costume Designer: Carlos Soto
Production Supervisor: Nathan Guisinger
Assistant Director/Stage Manager: Catalina Gonzales
Photography: Harry Zernike
Video Document: Vlad Teichberg
 SAUDADE
\sau-'da-je\
A young woman pays the price for foreign love during a military dictatorship. An immigrant seeks citizenship despite a terrible sacrifice. A renegade citizen attempts to flee a crumbling empire. Through three narrative, Saudade investigates what happens when we server the relationship with our "home".
Saudade is an original piece created by THE SOUTH WING. It was performed in July of 2005 at HERE Arts Center for the American Living Room. The American Living Room (TALR) is presented through HERE's Visiting Artist Program, which provides commissions and support through our festivals and series. Also supported by: Actors Without Borders/itonyc, Studio 111, TSW.
Directed by: Kameron Steele.
Created in collaboration with Marc Appart, Rebecca Bray, Ivana Catanese, Gillian Chadsey, Martin de Goycoechea, Zul de la Cueva, Marsha Gall, Nathan Guisinger, Andrew Shulman*, Carlos Soto and Zishan Ugurlu*.
THE SOUTH WING is further developing this piece for upcoming performances.
 HANJO
Mishima's contemporary Noh play in a new adaptation by The South Wing. Three damaged people scarred by their passions and tied together by fate discover where their long, desperate and very different paths will lead.
THE SOUTH WING presented the US premier of Hanjo in New York in November 2004
as part of the méxicoNow Festival. Previously, Hanjo was presented in Guadalajara, Mexico in November 2005 where it gained critical acclaim.
Credits for the New York performance:
Produced By: The South Wing
Written by: Yukio Mishima
Directed by: Kameron Steele
Featuring: Anilu Pardo, Ivana Catanese, Nathan Guisinger Composer: Marc Apart, Dramaturg: Jorge Zul de la Cueva, Lighting Designer: Gustavo Dominguez, Video Designer: Marisela La Grave, Costume Designers: Carlos Soto and Maiko Hiou
THE BACCHAE
By Euripides 
A noble city. A new religion.
An angry king. A possessed mother.
A blind prophet. A foolish drunken grandfather. A stranger.
Revels and bloody hunting. Crime, punishment, and revenge. Confusion, hypocrisy and loss.
The Bacchae shows a clash of cultures and ideologies through the lens of a bitter family drama. Originally set in the ancient Greek city of Thebes, the LIU production strives to cross boundaries of language, style, time and place to show the universal nature of these struggles and their often tragic outcome.
Directed by: Kameron Steele
Associate Director: Ivana Catanese
Costume Design: Carlos Soto
Featuring: Jelani Babb, Isabel Capellan, Shykia Fields,Vanessa Langston
Charles Perry , Paula Salomon*, Jill Samuels* , Ennis Smith* , Natasha Thomas
Please contact THE SOUTH WING for more information on any of our past and present productions.
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