Location-wise, they seem to love lower Manhattan and Brooklyn. Steampunk Haunted House was inspired by their visits to Burning Man. The Grand Paradise is a kitschy tourist trap Pearson envisioned based on his upbringing in St. Roadside Attraction was loosely based on co-artistic director Jennine Willet’s family. It came from a question about duality, a question about love,” said Pearson. Even in Then She Fell, with the Lewis Carroll framework, the story is US. “Everything that we’ve created is autobiographical in some way. The seemingly far-flung subjects of their work come from the artistic directors’ own lives. “Between the two of them, you get the range of our aesthetic, which is the way that we work,” Pearson said. Roadside Attraction (2013-14) was an itinerant glimpse of summertime Americana, with a 1970s JC Penney look that uses a ‘70s-era pop-up camper as setting and stage. Then She Fell (performed 3,500 times since it opened in 2012) has a fin-de-siècle aesthetic and filters the psychological element through an Alice Liddell//Lewis Carroll prism.
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The movie juxtaposes shows that are polar opposites within the body of work of Third Rail Projects. It’s about experiential work, so after a while it’s hard to represent what it really feels like without going and see the work.” “Once we started trimming the fat of it,” Pearson told us, “We found that the short format was what was going to keep the interest up. That’s precisely why I felt mild annoyance when the credits started rolling a little south of the 30-minute mark. Sure, the visuals were striking, there was insightful commentary from Times theater critic Ben Brantley, and a good combination of fin-de-siècle imagery and 1970s roadside Americana.
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A documentary about the masterminds behind Then She Fell and The Grand Paradise is set to premiere on July 23 at the Dance on Camera festival, and will be available for digital download at the same time.Īnd yet, on the phone with Third Rail’s co-artistic director Tom Pearson, I told him that Between Yourself and Me left me somehow dissatisfied. Are you one of those people who always meant to go see one of the high-octane immersive-theater productions by Williamsburg-based Third Rail Projects, but never found the time, occasion or money to do so? You’re in luck.
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