Work
LAST CALL: A Mundane Mysteries Marathon
Maker Outside the March · Work date 2022-12-09 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
December 9 - 10, 2022 7PM - 7PM EST The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries is an improvised mystery experience, unfolding over a thrilling one-hour phone call. Our intrepid private investigators delve into audience members’ very own micro mysteries using the investigative power of good conversation. After 2.5 years of continuous mystery solving, this family-friendly experience is running for one final “marathon” weekend. This is your last chance to experience the production’s signature blend of improvised, customized, family-friendly, one-on-one telephone storytelling. The Ministry’s crack team of Inspectors will be solving cases all day and night, some even pulling a full 24-hours-straight of mystery-solving mayhem! For just $10 book your one-hour experience anytime during the marathon —and turn the mundane into the marvelous!
Source. No published description found.
Anatomy
Thirteen criteria after Lauren R. Beck. Each carries a source grade: M maker-confirmed, P published, F first-hand, I inferred by the compiler, ? not yet established. Definitions are on the anatomy page.
- Participants listen through headphonesnoI
One-hour phone call with no headphone instruction.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The call is conversational and no relocation is required for it to progress.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The listing describes it as unfolding over a one-hour phone call.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificnoI
No location, circumstance or language is named as required; the participant's own micro mystery is supplied material, not a named circumstance.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
Content is generated from the audience member's own small mysteries, not from documented events of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Bookable by phone with no city infrastructure presupposed.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
Framed by a theater company as an improvised experience and production, with no non-theatrical discipline named.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The listing uses 'audience members', 'production' and 'experience' from a theater company.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The work draws on the participant's life as solicited material, but the listing does not say uncontrolled surroundings figure in it.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
The mystery is built from the audience member's own case through conversation, so speaking is required.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
The listing describes live improvising inspectors on a booked one-hour call.
- Involves game playunknown?
Case-solving implies an objective and a resolution but the listing establishes no rules or win/lose state.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No physical materials are mentioned either way.
Did you experience this? Tell us
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