Work
The Ritual
Maker Phoenix Tears Productions · Work date 2023-09-23 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
A new one-on-one phone call experience by Phoenix Tears Productions. This experience is 15-30 minutes and required you to move around your space a conduct a ritual at home. Devlin most recently performed the ritual herself and is now ready to advise you on the step by step process of keeping Eaglaith away The Ritual is our latest horror themed experience by Megan Markham Tickets are pay what you can with a $15 minimum that goes directly to our production team.
Source. No published description found.
ALTERNATE TITLE: the company's own page lists this work as Devlin, after its character; No Proscenium reviewed it as The Ritual. One work, two titles.
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 phone call experience with no headphone instruction in this listing.
- Participants move through space as part of the workyesP
The listing states it 'required you to move around your space'.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The listing calls it a one-on-one phone call experience.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificSituationP
The listing requires the participant to conduct the ritual at home, naming the circumstance the work needs.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The content concerns a fictional entity, Eaglaith, with no real place referenced.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
The work happens in the participant's own home and presupposes no city infrastructure.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
Framed by a productions company as a horror experience with a performer and tickets, naming no non-theatrical discipline.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The listing uses 'performed', 'production team' and tickets.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantyesI
The score sends the participant moving around their own actual home to enact the ritual, making whatever is there part of the work.
- Spectator must participateyesP
The listing says it requires you to move around your space and conduct a ritual via a step-by-step process.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesI
A guide, Devlin, advises the participant through the steps on a one-on-one booked call, indicating a live performer.
- Involves game playunknown?
Step-by-step instructions and warding off Eaglaith suggest rules and an objective, but no resolution state is established.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
Conducting a ritual suggests materials but the listing names no physical object.
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