Work
A Thousand Ways (Part One) Tour
Maker 600 Highwaymen · Work date 2021-02-27 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
NOTE: Ticket prices and times depend on which location is currently hosting. A Thousand Ways is a triptych of encounters between strangers. Guided by a score of instructions, questions, prompts, and physical directives, people who have never met build a series of performances for one another. Each installment of the piece explores the line between strangeness and kinship, distance and proximity, and how the most intimate assembly can become profoundly radical.
Source. No published description found.
Anatomy
Thirteen criteria after Lauren R. Beck. Each carries a source grade: M maker-confirmed, P published, F first-hand, I inferred by the compiler, ? not yet established. Definitions are on the anatomy page.
- Participants listen through headphonesnoI
Telephone delivery with no headphone requirement stated.
- Participants move through space as part of the workunknown?
The score includes 'physical directives' but the listing never says whether any of them require changing location.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The encounter is conducted by telephone between two strangers.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
Host venue affects ticketing only; the score names no required site, circumstance, or language.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
Content is a score of prompts between strangers, referencing no real place's documented past.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Nothing in the score presupposes urban surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theaterunknown?
'Score of instructions' suggests instruction-based art while the presenting context is performing-arts touring; framing is genuinely ambiguous.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Intended to be understood as theateryesP
Listing speaks of 'performances', a 'Tour', and ticket prices.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Description does not say whether the participants' actual surroundings feed the work.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
Participants 'build a series of performances for one another' by following instructions, questions and prompts.
- Has live performers other than the participantsnoI
The listing describes only the two strangers performing for each other, guided by a score, with no third human performer.
- Involves game playnoI
No objective or resolution state is described, only an encounter.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No physical materials are mentioned either way.
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