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What is promenade theatre? How promenade staging works, its history from York’s pageant wagons to The Mysteries and the Bridge, and the immersive overlap.

What is environmental theater? Schechner’s six axioms in plain English, the Performing Garage, and how it differs from site-specific and immersive work.

What is a soundwalk? Hildegard Westerkamp’s definition, the World Soundscape Project in Vancouver, how to do a soundwalk, and how it differs from an audio walk.

Vacuum, Antenna Theater’s first production: a 1981 stage play built from interviews with vacuum salesmen and housewives, with its masks, cast and tour.

Pandemonium, Antenna Theater’s 1997 night walk at Fort Barry in the Marin Headlands: Pan, 35-foot puppets, radio headsets, the cast and three critics.

How to make an audio walk: route length, stops, script word counts, binaural recording, testing and delivery, with lessons from Antenna’s 1987 Alcatraz tape.

The history of museum audio guides: the 1952 Stedelijk first, Acoustiguide, cassettes, Antenna Audio’s Alcatraz tour, digital players and the app era.

Artery, Antenna Theater’s Walkman maze: Jay, the stolen diamonds, the 1983 tour to New York, Spoleto and Mexico, and the 2000 San Diego revival.

Amnesia, Antenna Theater’s 1983-84 Walkman play: audients as clinic patients, plywood sets, Hardman’s masks, three runs and what two critics wrote.

Adjusting the Idle, Antenna Theater’s Walkman play about cars: the 1984 Carplays premiere at MOCA, the cafe theater at Artaud, its episodes and reviews.

Is there a calendar that starts on the winter solstice? Solstice and equinox calendars compared, from the French Republic and Nowruz to the ECOlogical Calendar.

Site-specific theater in the Bay Area, place by place: Snake Theater’s beach and gas station plays, Antenna’s forts and buses, We Players on Alcatraz.