Work
I Do Adore You
Maker Parker Sela · Work date 2024-03-01 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
I Do Adore You is an intimate show about love letters of all shapes and kinds. Over the phone, audience members will explore what makes a love letter, and all the beautiful ways we have to express adoration.
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
Delivered over the phone with no headphone instruction.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
No relocation is instructed for the show to progress.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The listing states it takes place over the phone.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No location, circumstance or language is named as required.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The subject is love letters in general, with no real place or documented event referenced.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone show presupposes a telephone, not city surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
The maker calls it a show for audience members, naming no non-theatrical discipline.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The listing uses 'show' and 'audience members'.
- 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 participateyesI
Audience members 'explore what makes a love letter' in an intimate one-to-one phone show, which implies they speak.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
A booked intimate phone show in which audience members explore the subject indicates a performer on the line.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective or resolution state are described.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
Love letters are the subject but the listing does not say the participant handles one.
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