Person from the Past

Description

A person is guided to think about a person from their past as they walk

Person A (Alex) has a phone.
He receives a message to stop at the next junction in the road. He's asked to think of people from his past and to choose one person for each direction at the junction.

Alex leaves the names in a text message.

A performer selects a name and instructs Alex to walk in the direction he chose for that person.

As Alex starts walking, the performer asks him think of the different cities that he's spent time in with that person. When he arrives at the next junction, he must choose from the cities- one city for each direction at the junction.

Alex leaves the names of the cities in a voice message. We choose a city and ask Alex to take that direction.

This process is repeated at subsequent junctions

Alex is then asked to think of...

- places with that person in the city
- things they remember about their appearance
- feelings they had towards this person

At the end they're asked to take a photo of the place they arrived at.

Duration: 30mins

What was it like to play?

Sabiha's Feedback - I was the one moving and being directed and enjoyed the journey in time, my first proper boyfriend (15 years ago) was selected and I started to think of places we met and details about him I haven't thought of for a long time.

This journey brought back a lot of very fond memories but I did not connect the area with the story or the person at all, in fact I found it a slightly annoying thing that I had to move around I much rather would have like to stay indoors with a cup of coffee while taking this journey back in time.