Visual privacy of some kind, and mask off, are surely the key ingredients – and I’d still count the Boy Witch one because the privacy is intended, and if an audience member were to ruin it (has anyone ever seen this happen?) it surely wouldn’t have been the intended unfolding of events.
Main reason I counted the Boy Witch “1:1″ as such is because Jordan Morley described it to me that way. Similarly, Speakeasy Barman’s various interactions weren’t 1:1s until his scene in the backroom was created and a performer referred to it as such (reference also when the Danvers 1:1 was added, performers were also using that terminology to describe the scene).
I wouldn’t count, say, my favorite Boy Witch interaction, which is: after going down the stairs from the shower with him, he shoves you against the wall and whispers something in your ear. It’s for all to see and your mask is on, so it’s not a 1:1 per se, though generally no one else can hear what he says (it’s usually just “thank you” but sometimes not: cf. the “your heart sings” incident).
Finally, sometimes shit happens – at May Fair 2, Will Seefried took me back to do the Porter 1:1 and couldn’t get the door to open, so instead he closed the gate, put my back against it, and ad libbed a completely different 1:1 with his own monologue. Audience could see some of it obviously, but I count it as a 1:1 in my records because *what was supposed to be happening then* was the regularly scheduled scene in the Porter’s office. He did lift my mask up for it, since the rest of the audience could only see my back against the gate.
But again this isn’t strict religion so however folks like to count these things is fine!
Adding one other fun note. After seeing Linked Dance Theater’s “Remembrance” this fall, they did a talkback with the audience who had stayed through the whole performance. I had asked a question about their structure (the 1:1s and 2:1s etc were in the ‘premium’ content in the third loop of the show) and Kendra Slack asked me to pause and explain the terminology for some of the other audience at the talkback, since it’s common parlance in the immersive world but not necessarily understood outside that. The baseline was simply “some amount of privacy for a scene expressly understood as between a single performer and a single audience member.”
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