Work
The Midnight Market
Maker Mirror World Creations · Work date 2021-06-27 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
For hundreds of years, the Fair Folk have run the Midnight Market, selling curses, charms and cloaks of dreams to those unwise enough to buy. Now, though, they've discovered time zones and telephones, and are bringing the Midnight Market to you. If they've called you, they're sure to have your heart's desire...only the question remains: what will you sell in exchange? Telemarketing has never been so intriguing: "The Midnight Market" is a 45-minute experience done entirely over the phone. +++ 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, and once the adventure starts you’ll be able to steer the experience. Remember
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
A 45-minute experience 'done entirely over the phone' with no headphone requirement stated.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
A single phone call with no instruction to change location.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
Listing states it happens entirely over the phone.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No required site, circumstance, or language is named.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
A folkloric fairy market, not documented past events of a specific real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Nothing presupposes urban surroundings.
- 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 calls it immersive theater played one-on-one with an actor.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Nothing is said about the participant's surroundings.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
The participant must bargain ('what will you sell in exchange?') and 'you'll be able to steer the experience'.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
Boilerplate states it is played one-on-one with an actor who contacts the participant.
- Involves game playnoI
A bargaining encounter with no stated rules, objective, or resolution state.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No physical materials are mentioned either way.
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