Work
Soon, Tomorrow Maybe
Maker Marie Ayotte · Théâtre Déchainés · Work date 2021-09-14 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
Soon, Tomorrow Maybe is a play performed over the phone, for one spectator at a time. At the end of the line, Helen, a mother with a soft voice, wanders from memory to memory, sheltered in her garden. Through her half-hearted confessions, we discover a woman suffocated by regrets over which she has no control. The result of three years of documentary research, which included interviews and meetings with experts, Soon, Tomorrow Maybe is more than anything an intimate, artistic, and unique experience, offering accessible theater to all, while speaking in a human way about this rarely discussed subject: these women who adore their children, but hate the daily life of motherhood.
Source. No published description found.
ATTRIBUTION RESOLVED. The French title is Tantôt, demain peut-être, by Marie Ayotte. An actress calls on WhatsApp and addresses the participant as a fictional character. Named in Daillère, "Arborescences et voix de synthèse" (JIT 2022).
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 play performed over the phone with no headphone requirement stated.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
One spectator on a phone call with no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
Listing states it is a play performed over the phone for one spectator at a time.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No required site, circumstance, or language is named in the listing.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
Helen and her garden are fictional; the documentary research concerns motherhood, not a place's past.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Nothing presupposes urban surroundings.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoP
The listing calls it a play and 'accessible theater to all'; documentary research is a method, not a non-theatrical framing.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
Listing uses 'play', 'spectator', and 'theater'.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Nothing is said about the participant's surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateunknown?
The listing casts the audience as 'spectator' hearing Helen's confessions but never says whether the participant must speak or act, and the rubric bars coding n from a vague listing.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
'A play performed over the phone, for one spectator at a time' implies an actor performing in real time, though liveness is not stated outright.
- 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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