The Grand Paradise
Produced by:
Third Rail Projects
Bushwick, Brooklyn, New York ……… 2016
manages to summon romantic promise and regretful retrospection in a single, ocean-air breath.
The New York Times
a captivatingly sensual interactive adventure
Time Out New York
Set in those hazy and culturally liminal years of the late 1970s becoming the 1980s in the United States, The Grand Paradise was an immersive theater work that combined experiential theater, a late 1970s tropical resort, and a fountain of youth that promised to quench deepest longings. Greeted with a tropical drink and a garland of flowers, visitors encountered the resort’s resident population; characters who embodied the era’s shifting and blurring values.
Audiences explored the resort and beaches, watched a floorshow, and followed performers into one-on-one encounters where faded ideals might be traded for shiny new illusions.
