Ghost Light
“… the view keeps changing, and you half expect the floor to dissolve beneath your feet. The artists of Third Rail are masters of the skewed perspective.”
–The New York Times
The making of Ghost Light took me back to my childhood and the many hours spent watching my dad lead the stage crew of our high school musicals. At twelve years old, I could easily disappear into the nooks and crannies of the old auditorium, climbing the catwalks to watch rehearsals from above, hiding in the orchestra pit and looking up from below, or sneaking into the wings to get an up-close and over-the-shoulder view of the action onstage. Theater for me was most often observed from unusual vantage points and rarely from the seats in the house.
At each performance, one hundred and twelve audience members arrived at the Claire Tow Theater at Lincoln Center to see Ghost Light. Presenting their tickets, they bypassed the seats and just kept walking – onto the stage and into the wings, the dressing rooms, the rehearsal studio, the green room, the balconies, and the stairwells. Ghost Light revealed the underpinnings of what lies behind the curtain, giving the audience a vantage point similar to what I had as a child and folding them into the artifice of the theater world and the facades that parallel those of our everyday lives.
Full description and credits: thirdrailprojects.com
Lincoln Center Theater: Video Montage
Photography by Julieta Cervantes