Work
Last One Standing (Orlando)
Maker Phoenix Tears Productions · Work date 2024-05-17 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
'Last One Standing' is an immersive theater experience for one audience member, a phone and a mailbox. It is a warm and heartfelt experience, that wants you to think about what it would be like to be the last one of a specific group. There a a lot of things in our current world that have the capacity to isolate us, so how can we connect our own feelings of loneliness and emptyness to those of others, and show empathy? Listen to the story of your chosen 'last one standing' or interact with them - you decide.
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 by phone with no headphone instruction.
- Participants move through space as part of the workunknown?
The work requires a mailbox as well as a phone, but the listing does not say whether the participant must go to it during the piece.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The listing states the experience requires a phone.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No location, circumstance or language is named as required, only a phone and a mailbox.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The content is the story of a chosen 'last one standing' with no real place or documented event referenced.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone and a mailbox presuppose no city infrastructure.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
The listing calls it an immersive theater experience, naming no non-theatrical discipline.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The listing uses 'immersive theater experience' and 'audience member'.
- 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 participatesometimesP
The listing says you may listen to the story or interact with them - 'you decide' - so participation varies by participant choice.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
The offer to interact with the character rather than only listen indicates a person responding in real time.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective or resolution state are described.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceyesI
The listing lists a mailbox alongside the phone as what the experience requires, indicating mailed physical materials.
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