Work
Leo Season
Maker Candle House · Work date 2021-08-01 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
"What's your sign?" For the last ten years, Katy has kept one diary after another, chronicling almost every day of her life since age 13. No one else has ever read what’s inside, but as her 24th birthday approaches, she’d like to change that. Created by Katy Murphy (NEXT TIME, Lovers Anonymous) for CHC's FireStarter Initiative, this 15-25min one-on-one phone call is meant to be taken ALONE. Note: Unlike some of our other work, participants are welcome to join us for Leo Season multiple times.
Source. No published description found.
MERGED: this archive previously carried Mutable Signs as a separate row. Katy Murphy's own site confirms they are one work, retitled.
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 15-25 minute one-on-one phone call with no headphone requirement stated.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
A short call with no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
Listing describes it as a 15-25 minute one-on-one phone call.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificSituationP
The listing states the call 'is meant to be taken ALONE', naming solitude as the required circumstance.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
Content is a young woman's personal diaries, not documented events of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Nothing presupposes urban surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
Made for an immersive-creator initiative and delivered as a one-on-one call; no non-theatrical discipline is named.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesI
The listing avoids explicit stage vocabulary but positions the piece within an immersive-theater collective's program of scheduled one-on-one works.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Nothing is said about the participant's surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesI
The piece opens by asking the participant 'What's your sign?' and is built as a one-on-one exchange over her diaries.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
A scheduled one-on-one call in which Katy shares her diaries implies a performer present in real time, though liveness is not stated.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective, or resolution state described.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No physical materials are mentioned either way.
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