![The Hotline - 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.](https://d19r1twe1senfi.cloudfront.net/uploads/avr/image_event_online/image/1228f9b2-1a86-4b47-aa82-c8ae9efae1e5/user_crop_TheHotline_JezHunghanfoo.jpg?ts=1696911621)
The Hotline
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The Hotline allows callers to explore anecdotes on reproductive healthcare via a phone menu with 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.
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"Navigating Kasey Gamblingās deliriously cheerful, malignantly patriarchal parody of a reproductive healthcare āhelpā line feels like being stuck in limbo, halfway between The Handmaidās Tale and The Stepford Wives." - Stephen A. Russell, The Age
Presented by: The Honeytrap
This work is entirely pre-recorded. Audiences require access to a landline or mobile phone with the ability to make outgoing calls. To access the text-based version of this work The Hotline chatbot at tinyurl.com/hotlinechatbot
Reviews & Fringefeed Reacts
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This not-allowed-to-choose-your-own adventure in āhold pleaseā gaslighting is both chilling and darkly comic. - Stephen A. Russell, The Age
Itās confronting, infuriating and playful all at once. - Lakshmi Ganapathy, Arts Hub