Work

The Girl On The Phone

Maker Mirror World Creations  ·  Work date 2021-06-26  ·  Medium telephone  ·  Role work

Description

Irene is trapped in Caracas, kidnapped by corrupt police; she's found herself a mobile phone but now she needs your help to escape. But will your Google-fu and your attempts to help her keep her cool be enough to get her out of mortal peril in time? "The Girl On The Phone" is a 60-90 minute immersive experience, a set of texts and phone calls between you and a kidnapped tourist with a scavenged mobile phone. Over the course of the experience, you'll use the resources you have on hand to help Irene escape her captors and comfort her in the midst of a crisis. *** A phone adventure is a piece of intimate immersive theater that you’ll play out — just you and an actor, one-on-one — via text message and phone call. All sessions will be booked directly between you and the performer, who will contact you via a phone number provided beforehand. No preparation or research is necessary — we'll s

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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 60-90 minute phone-and-text experience with no headphone requirement stated.

• Participants move through space as part of the worknoI

  Participant uses 'the resources you have on hand', with no instruction to change location.

• Audio technology is necessaryyesP

  The work is constituted by texts and phone calls with the kidnapped character.

• Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI

  Caracas is the fiction's setting, not the participant's required location; no situation or language requirement is named.

• Engages with the history of a sitenoI

  A fictional kidnapping, not documented past events of a specific real place.

• Created for an urban environmentnoI

  Nothing requires the participant's surroundings to be urban.

• Created as an artwork other than theaternoP

  The maker's boilerplate frames the phone adventure as 'intimate immersive theater'.

• Intended to be understood as theateryesP

  Listing says 'immersive experience' and 'immersive theater' with an 'actor' and 'performer'.

• Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantyesI

  The work sends the participant to 'your Google-fu' and 'the resources you have on hand', so it depends on what is actually available around them.

• Spectator must participateyesP

  The participant must research, help Irene escape, and keep her calm over the call.

• Has live performers other than the participantsyesP

  Boilerplate states it is played 'just you and an actor, one-on-one', with the performer contacting you.

• Involves game playyesI

  There is a stated objective (get Irene out), a time limit, and an implied success-or-failure resolution in 'be enough... in time?'

• Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?

  'Resources you have on hand' may or may not mean a physical object beyond the phone; nothing is specified.
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