Work
I Should Have Called You Earlier
Maker Danielle Mohlman · Work date 2021-01-22 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
I Should Have Called You Earlier is a one-on-one telephone play where you receive a call from a half familiar stranger. Together, you’ll reflect back on an imagined past, playing games and sharing memories along the way. It’s an intimate, interactive, and live experience that runs 15 - 20 minutes. I Should Have Called You Earlier is a Pay-What-You-Will performance. After your call, you’ll receive an email with instructions to pay whatever amount you choose. All proceeds will go directly to the artists involved.
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
A one-on-one telephone play; a handset is not headphones and none are requested.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The 15–20 minute call contains no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
“A one-on-one telephone play where you receive a call” — the phone carries the whole work.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No site, named circumstance or language requirement appears.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The pair reflect on “an imagined past,” which is fiction rather than documented events of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone play presupposes a telephone, not city infrastructure.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
The maker’s own term is “telephone play”; no non-theatrical discipline is named.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
Called a “telephone play” and a “Pay-What-You-Will performance.”
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The listing says nothing about the participant’s real surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
“Together, you’ll reflect back on an imagined past, playing games and sharing memories” in an “interactive” call.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
Described as “live” with a caller who plays the half-familiar stranger.
- Involves game playunknown?
“Playing games…along the way” is mentioned but no objective, rules or resolution state is established.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No materials are mentioned.
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