Work
Atomic Hotline
Maker AJ Danna · Work date 2023-07-31 · Medium telephone · Role work · Experienced by the compiler 2026-07-12
Description
Ring! Ring! Atomic Hotline invites you to experience an interactive science fiction audio drama with a telephonic twist. The Moscow-Washington Hotline: officially introduced in 1963, the top secret link established to cool international nuclear concerns is still in use. While it was popularly referred to as the “Red Phone,” the Hotline wasn’t ever a telephone line at all… or was it? You’re invited to connect with the citizens of Broken Arrow, Nevada, a small town thrown into slow-building chaos after intercepting an experimental nuclear hotline. Your help is requested; will you make the right call? Atomic Hotline is an immersive audio drama performed live over telephone, written and created by AJ Danna. AJ’s prior immersive theater work includes experiences and activations from Netflix, Amazon, Universal, and Warner Bros. Most recently, his voiceovers could be heard in Sleepwalkr 360 -
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
Performed over telephone with no headphone instruction.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
No relocation is instructed for the call to progress.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The listing states it is performed live over telephone.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No location, circumstance or language is named as required.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The Moscow-Washington Hotline is documented history but is an institution, not an identifiable place whose past the work treats; Broken Arrow, Nevada is fictional.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Callers need a telephone, not city surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
The maker describes it as an audio drama performed live and cites his immersive theater background, naming no non-theatrical discipline.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The maker calls it immersive and performed live, and lists his prior immersive theater work.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The listing does not address the participant's surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
The listing calls it interactive, asks for the caller's help and asks 'will you make the right call?'
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
The listing states it is performed live over telephone.
- Involves game playunknown?
'Will you make the right call?' hints at a success state but no rules or resolution are established.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No physical objects are mentioned either way.
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