This Between Shadow
This Between Shadow
A 40-minute, intimate immersive theater experience for only 10 audience members that walks among the watchers, those who no longer fear the dark, those who see “you” and your shadow.
Created by Wesleyan students in the Winter Session course Immersive Theater: Experiential Design, Material Culture, and Audience-Centered Performance, under the direction of Tom Pearson, Co-Artistic Director of Third Rail Projects
Tuesday, January 22 and Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Center for the Arts Wesleyan University Middletown, Connecticut
Photos courtesy of Wesleyan University’s Center for the Arts; images by Sandy Aldieri of Perceptions Photography.
PROGRAM
CREATED AND PERFORMED BY
Gabe Hurlock, Michayla Robertson-Pine, Matthew Seidenfeld, Dylan Shumway, Fiona Sun, Miguel Peréz-Glassner, Nathan Pugh, Elizabeth Woolford
Additional performances by: Sige Zheng (for Fiona Sun), Miguel Peréz-Glassner (for Dylan Shumway) and Fiona Sun(for Gabe Hurlock)
Original Music & Sound Design: Dylan Shumway
Sound Design Consultant: Sean Hagerty
Additional Sound Design by: Gabe Hurlock, Miguel Peréz-Glassner, Fiona Sun
Costume and Production Design by the Cast
Set and Prop Coordinator: Michayla Robertson-Pine
Stage Managers: Tom Pearson and Abike Sonubi
Tom Pearson is a Creative Campus Fellow in Theater; his 2018–19 residency is part of Wesleyan’s Creative Campus Initiative, which is supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Special thanks to Suzanne Sadler, Bob Russo, and Charlie Carroll for their generous production assistance.
SCENE DETAILS
Fiona Sun
Lost Reflection
Also featuring Sige Zheng
A monkey saw the moon at the bottom of a well. He hung on a branch and reached out to the reflection. The branch broke and he fell into the deep water.
What is the real thing? The monkey in us will keep hanging from that branch, always reaching and never getting anywhere. Maybe it’s time to let go. If not now, when?
Miguel Peréz-Glassner
Imagine Him Happy
A compulsive writer refuses to leave his studio apartment until he can write the perfect letter to an estranged friend.
Elizabeth Woolford and Michayla Robertson-Pine
The Guides
Our scene investigates what it means to be lost and what it means to find our way, if we can find our way.
Nathan Pugh
Memory Slips
A storytelling exploration about how our past and future selves speak to, control, and sometimes heal each other. Audience members receive different experiences that shape and change the performance space over time.
Matthew Seidenfeld
The Cocoon
With the assistance of the audience, a figure in a small room slowly eases into a new form.
Dylan Shumway
Providing Connection
Also featuring Miguel Peréz-Glassner
A reflection on the power that maps have to guide others.
Gabe Hurlock
Dark Dust
Also featuring: Fiona Sun
Like a flower from the Queen Mothers garden, she brings gifts of music and intuition, but she is mortal and ugly. She must conquer herself. She must die to save her own life.
