Work
I Do Adore You (From Home Fest Edition)
Maker Parker Sela · Work date 2024-10-26 · 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. This is experience is brought to you via The From Home Fest 2024 as part of a selection of remote art which prioritizes connection. For audience members who experienced the spring 2024 run of I Do Adore You, please note that this is the same experience. Of course, you are more than welcome to attend again!
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 remote phone show presupposes a telephone, not city surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
The maker calls it a show for audience members; the festival's 'remote art' framing names no specific non-theatrical discipline.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The listing uses 'show' and 'audience members' and is presented in a festival program.
- 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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