THE LOST LESSON
By Joan Marie Moossy
Directed by Ivana Catanese
Designed by Maria Pessino
At Karyn Mannix Contemporary, Southampton, NY, 2010
ABOUT THE PLAY
The play, conceived by Maria Pessino and Joan Maria Moossy, written by Joan Marie Moossy, is aone-woman tragi-comic monologue featuring the historic Hildegart Rodríguez Carballeira, a pro-sex, anarchist girl-genius of the 1920’s and 30’s Spain, delivering her lesson on sexuality for young girls, along with a running commentary on her troubled life and times, her deranged mother, the pro-sex intellectuals of her day, her fascist political nemesis, and her idealistic vision for a future of freedom, equality, and world peace.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joan Marie Moossy is a writer, filmmaker, and actress. Her work has appeared in publications like Penthouse Magazine, Por Esto!, In These Times, and The FLING.
She co-hosts “Let Them Talk”, a cable TV talk show, and produces “Miss Moossy’s Modern Movies”, a series of short comedic films.
She has worked with Ethyl Eichelberger, Paul DeRienzo, Mark Eisenstein, Mr Fashion, Penny Arcade, Jazzmyn Banks, and Cleopatra’s Bridget Donahue, Bridget Finn, Kate McNamara, and Erin Somerville.
DIRECTOR
Ivana Catanese has choreographed several Oddfellows Playhouse productions: “One Thousand Avant Garde Plays” by Kenneth Koch at Guild Hall, “Systole and Diastole” and “Your Wait in Gold” by Maria Pessino at the Long House Gardens and “RRR” by Maria Pessino at Benson & Keys Gallery.
After graduating from UNC, in Mendoza, Argentina she founded the Alvarez-Catanese-Ponce company, whose adaptation of Sartre’s “No Exit” (A Puerta Cerrada) toured to the New Trends Festival in Buenos Aires and to the Casa de las Americas Festival in Havana, Cuba. From 2000-2007 she worked at Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center, where she co-founded The South Wing Theatre Company (TSW) and has since acted, produced, written and directed on the company’s works in Europe, the Americas and Japan. In April 2011 she will present her adaptation of Kobo Abe’s Secret Rendezvous at HERE Arts Center, NYC. www.thesouthwing.org.
LIGHTING DESIGN
Kameron Steele’s previous design work with Oddfellows Playhouse includes: “One Thousand Avant Garde Plays” at Guild Hall and “Your Wait in Gold” by Maria Pessino at the Long House Gardens. Since 1990, Kameron Steele has worked as an actor, director and designer, most notably with Robert Wilson and Japanese director Tadashi Suzuki at the Lincoln Center Festival, Bam Next Wave and various other festivals in Europe, Asia and the Americas.
At the Watermill Center in 2000 he started The South Wing Theatre Company with Ivana Catanese, and has since presented works in NYC at HERE, PS122, The Public, LMCC, the Martin E. Segal Theatre Center and Japan Society. Kameron is a graduate of Northwestern University.
