Work
Night Before
Maker They Played Productions · Work date 2020-12-24 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
"You'll stay with me until the end, right? Please?" Christmas Eve, 2020. Your friend is terrified. Someone is coming for her....and not for the first time. Dark, terrible, not for the kiddies. Night Before is an interactive phone call between one audience member and a live actor. It is a very dark, Christmas-themed experience very much for adults. Length: 15 minutes Type: Direct Phone call in the U.S. International audience members will be contacted to arrange a call through Discord, WhatsApp or similar VOIP options. Themes: violence, terror, paranoia, trauma, abuse, torture Age: 18+ only Please note: All ticket times are Pacific United States. Please adjust accordingly.
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
“Direct Phone call” or VOIP; a handset is not headphones and none are requested.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The 15-minute call contains no stated instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
It is “an interactive phone call between one audience member and a live actor.”
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No site, named circumstance or language is required of the participant; the Christmas Eve setting is the fiction’s, not a demand on the participant’s situation.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The content is a fictional Christmas Eve threat, not documented events of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A phone call presupposes a telephone, not city infrastructure.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
No non-theatrical discipline is named; the framing is an actor-led phone play.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
“An interactive phone call between one audience member and a live actor” with ticket times listed.
- 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
Explicitly “interactive,” and the character’s opening plea — “You’ll stay with me until the end, right?” — addresses the participant directly.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
“A live actor” performs the call in real time.
- Involves game playnoI
No rules, objective or resolution state are described.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No materials are mentioned.
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