Analysis Of Uncle Roy

It is a site-specific, locative game that combines a fictional imagery of looking for figure, “Uncle Roy”, simultaneously in a combination of real and virtual spaces. The performance includes two categories of performers, called street players and online players. Street players were guided to give up anything in their pockets (their kays, wallet, phone, etc.) and in return, they would get a handheld computer and sixty-minute period to find Uncle Roy. Their only clue was “Hear to location in the park. Uncle Roy will send you message indicating where this is. Once you are there, tap “I am here’”. The hand-held computer was equipped with technologies that allowed a map application for tracking street players’ moving progress.
Online players located
Eventually, a call came asking the street player to get into a nearby white limousine. A man entered the car and sat next to the street player. The man began to ask a few additional questions, including,
If a stranger was having a personal crisis, someone you had never met nor spoken to before, do you think you could call and offer them worlds of encouragement or advice? At the moment, Uncle Roy has arranged for another player of this game to be asked the same set of questions. However, they are also being asked if they would be willing to give a commitment of twelve months. What Uncle Roy would like to know is if you would be willing to give this player a similar commitment of twelve months.
If the street player answered yes, she was for contact information at which she could be reached during the upcoming year. Once the passenger had the information, the limousine stopped, and the street player wxited the vehicle. The passenger let the street player know she should return to the ICA, where she would be given the possessions she surrendered at the start of the play session. The street player’s postcard was then mailed to one of the online