Experimental

The Hotline

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  • Dates 3 Oct - 22 Oct
  • Time Available On Demand (10 - 15 minutes)
  • Venue Digital Fringe
FREE EVENT
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The receiver and cord for a red rotary phone lies on top of an open Yellow Pages. A pencil and a plain green business card also sits on the page. The card reads: The Hotline. Call now.
Past Event

Image Credit: Jez Hunghanfoo

  • Created by: Kasey Gambling

  • Sound design: Josie Steele

Accessed via a 1800 number, The Hotline allows callers to explore anecdotes on reproductive healthcare each user creating their own choose-your-own-adventure style narrative. Satirising anti-choice pregnancy helplines, 'The Hotline' explores how patriarchal medicine impacts those experiencing reproductive health issues. The Hotline number will be revealed on 3 Oct.

Please call 1800 960 929 to access the show.
thehoneytrap.net.au

  • Duration: 10 - 15 minutes

  • Event Accessibility: Blind or Low Vision Rating: Fully Accessible, Deaf or Hard of Hearing Rating: Partially Accessible

  • Age suitability: M

  • Event warnings: Moderate Coarse Language, Some Infrequent/Low Pressure Audience Interaction.

  • Content warnings: Misogyny, Abortion, Mental Health, Medical Procedures.

This work is entirely pre-recorded. Audiences require access to a landline or mobile phone with the ability to make outgoing calls. Additionally, The Hotline can be called for free from any Telstra phone booth. Please note: the text-based version of this work is only available via the chatbot function on The Hotline webpage: https://www.thehoneytrap.net.au/thehotlinelive

  • Free Event

*Prices are subject to change without notice. Standard terms and conditions apply.

"Navigating Kasey Gambling's deliriously cheerful, malignantly patriarchal parody of a reproductive healthcare "help" line feels like being stuck in limbo, halfway between The Handmaid's Tale and The Stepford Wives " - The Age

“Hilariously satirical...Enjoyable, fascinating.” - Arts Weekly 3MBS

"An incredible, deeply emotional, at times disturbing and conflicting immersive experience." - The Advertiser (The Maze, 2019)

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Sessions: Digital Events

Date Time Venue

Tuesday, 03 October 2023 -
Sunday, 22 October 2023

On Demand

Digital Fringe

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