Work
GOOD MORNING
Maker Candle House · Work date 2019-12 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
A Twilight Zone-style mystery. Charles Alwick hosts a radio show in a small Ohio town and is grappling with newcomers; the town's darker truths surface as the hour goes on. The participant is a listener selected for interaction, and is asked to take moral positions on what the townspeople have done. About an hour, by phone. Performed by Jack Drummond.
Source. https://candlehouse.org
Part of Candle House's Under the Bed, a select-your-own-experience menu of remote one-to-one encounters reviewed in December 2019. Participants who booked four or more connections also received a call from the Operator, a host who framed the stories and remembered what the participant had already been through — cross-call memory, three years before the field noticed it.
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
An 80-85 minute phone call with no headphone requirement stated.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The listing invites the participant to relax and 'make yourself at home', with no relocation instruction.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
Listing describes it as an 80-85 minute phone call for an audience of one.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
Available worldwide; the fictional Jubilee, OH is the story's setting, not a required participant location.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
Jubilee, OH is a fictional town and 'since 1971' is period flavour, which the rubric excludes as site history.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Nothing presupposes city infrastructure or density.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
Framed as an interactive play; the radio-program conceit is fiction-internal, not a non-theatrical discipline.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
Listing calls it a 'play' for 'an audience of one' and credits a Broadway performer.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
'Sip some cocoa' is atmosphere; nothing establishes that uncontrolled surroundings carry meaning.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
The participant is asked to take moral stances on the townspeople's decisions.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
Performed live by Jack Drummond as Charles Alwick.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective, or resolution state described.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
Cocoa is offered as atmosphere, not as a required object, and nothing else physical is specified.
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