Consent and Agency in Narrative Development
Check our beloved Creative Partners at Narrascope 2025 this weekend!
Then, treat yourself to another dive down the rabbit hole in Our Options Have Changed.
Consent and Agency in Narrative Development
Sunday 3:15 pm–3:45 pm (US Eastern)
(Room: URBN-349)
In the summer of 2020, early into the COVID-19 pandemic, one of the Creative Partners of Flux Theatre Ensemble made a suggestion to address a need for sharing space while socially distanced: what if we create a phone line people could call to either give something or take something? From that simple prompt came Our Options Have Changed (OOHC), an interactive audio experience released in 2022. With a sprawling web of content containing mindfulness exercises, subversive challenges, office voicemails, hidden puzzles, and introspective monologues, OOHC slowly reveals a dystopian storyworld via a telephone menu. The breadth of experiences available was a direct outcome of our process for development: we provided the structure for any Creative Partner to add whatever they wanted to the experience, trusting in our ability to synthesize the material. We describe the result as a pando-narrative, named for the organism that appears as a grove of distinct trees but is actually connected via a single root system. We will share the organizational structure mapping the interactive experience, the internal narrative that emerged, and subsequent manifestations of the OOHC heterocosm in other forms.
[narrative design, interactive theater, cross platform, tools]
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