Work
Heard at the Telephone
Maker André de Lorde and Charles Foley · Work date 1902 · Medium in person · Role precursor
Description
The English staging of Au Téléphone at Wyndham's Theater, London, with Charles Warner in the lead. Punch joked that Warner should be tried for installing and using a telephone with too much license on that stage.
Source. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.33941380.8
A PRECURSOR, NOT A PHONE WORK. Listed separately from Au Téléphone because it is a distinct production with its own date, venue and cast, and because it is the point at which the device crosses into English-language theater.
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 headphonesnoP
A proscenium audience.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoP
A seated audience.
- Audio technology is necessarynoP
No audio technology. The telephone is a prop on a stage.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
Not tied to a place or circumstance.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
No documented past of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentunknown?
Not established.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
A stage play.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
Staged at Wyndham's Theater, London.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantnoI
A proscenium production.
- Spectator must participatenoP
A seated audience watches.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
Charles Warner and company, on a stage.
- Involves game playnoI
No game structure.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceyesP
A stage telephone.
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