Ikaros

by Third Rail Projects
(original music and sound design)
La Jolla Playhouse – Without Walls Festival 2019

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Commissioned by La Jolla Playhouse for the 2019 Without Walls Festival, Third Rail Projects’ Ikaros is an experiential collection of dreams, myth, film, poetry, dance, and performance. It is an audience-centered walking tour through a desert garden path, located on the grounds of a former naval base under the active sky of a nearby airport. Images of Icarus and Earhart, the fragrance of rosemary, and the flight patterns and roar of the engines above fold into one another to become a rite of passage that follows a cartography of flight, failure, recovery.

Written, Directed, and Choreographed by Tom Pearson
Contributing Directors: Zach Morris and Jennine Willett

Created in Collaboration with the Performers:
Andrew Broaddus, Justin Lynch, Mary Madsen

Additional Text: Zach Morris
Original Music and Sound Design: Sean Hagerty
Collaborative Musician: Isaiah Singer

Lighting Design: Zach Morris, with Tom Pearson
Costume Design: Tom Pearson, with Jennine Willett
Wing Design: Bennett C. Taylor
Dramaturgy: David Mancini