Work

Lucky Shot

Maker Olivia Behr  ·  Work date 2026  ·  Medium telephone  ·  Role work  ·  Experienced by the compiler 2026-04-27

Description

No maker-published description exists; the only published text is critical coverage. Announced by No Proscenium as "a 1:1 rom-com from Behr called Lucky Shot." Kathryn Yu's review opens: "Nora, who is a little tipsy, is calling me on the phone. Except she doesn't realize she's calling me. Nora thinks she's calling Lucy..." — a woman Nora had just met at a bar. Over roughly 25 minutes Nora talks about her annoying neighbor Derek, what it was like to be instantly infatuated with Lucy, her small-town constraints and her dreams of escape, before "the sudden dramatic shift is remarkably effective and haunting (in a good way)." Recommended donation $25.

Source. https://www.noproscenium.com/immersive-review-rundown-for-5-6-26/

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 as a phone call; a handset is not headphones and none are mentioned.

• Participants move through space as part of the worknoI

  A roughly 25-minute call with no instruction to change location.

• Audio technology is necessaryyesP

  The review describes the entire work as a phone call from Nora.

• Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI

  Nora's small town is fictional content; nothing requires the participant to be in a named place, circumstance or language.

• Engages with the history of a sitenoI

  The small-town setting is fictional, not a documented real place's history.

• Created for an urban environmentnoI

  A phone call presupposes a phone, not a city; the fiction is explicitly small-town.

• Created as an artwork other than theaternoI

  Framed as a "1:1 rom-com" in immersive-performance press, with no non-theatrical discipline named.

• Intended to be understood as theateryesI

  Announced and reviewed in immersive-theater press as a 1:1 with a cast role for the participant, though the maker published no vocabulary of her own.

• Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?

  The review does not address whether the participant's surroundings figure in the work.
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• Spectator must participateyesI

  The participant is cast as Lucy in a live wrong-number call, which implies speaking back, though the review only reports Nora's talk.

• Has live performers other than the participantsyesP

  The review is written as a live 1:1 call in progress, and the note records it as a live call.

• Involves game playnoI

  A narrative call with no rules, objective or resolution state.

• Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?

  No physical materials are mentioned either way.
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