Fear and Loathing in Gotham
About the Production
Fear and Loathing in Gotham is Ping Chong’s first full-length work. The story follows a White detective as he pursues an Asian serial killer, who murders little girls. The work features shadow play and no dialogue, giving it a resemblance to a silent movie. Loosely based on Fritz Lang’s M, Fear and Loathing is a harrowing, visceral and disturbing work about alienation and cultural estrangement. It is an interdisciplinary work that represents a point of transition between Ping Chong's visual arts roots and the performing arts.
Production Team And Cast
Conceived, Written and Directed by
Ping Chong
Production Managers
Kay Hines and Jean Claude Ribes
Music
Meredith Monk
Set and Production Design
Ping Chong
Choreographer
Nora Guthrie
Cast
Original: Ping Chong, John Parton, Nora Guthrie, Jean Claude Ribes Tour: Rob List, Marlene Pennison, Steve Clorfeine and Don Voisine
Performance History
Premiere
Jean Cocteau Theatre, New York, NY (May 1975)
Tour
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (January 1980)
American Theatre Laboratory (Dance Theater Workshop), New York, NY (February 1980)
Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC (April 1981)
The Ohio Theater, New York, NY
Cabaret Voltaire, Turin, Italy
Centro di Ricerca Per Teatro, Milan, Italy
Theatre Quotidien, Montpellier, France
Maison de la Culture, Nanterre, France
Les Ateliers, Lyon, France
World Theatre Festival, Nancy, France
University of Maryland, Catonsville, MD (February 1982)
Moming Dance and Art Center, Chicago, IL (February 1982)
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (February 1982)