Work
La Central de Misterios Cotidianos
Maker ANIMALIEN · Work date 2020-11 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
"Atrévete a dar rienda suelta a tu imaginación para ser protagonista de un misterio casero real, mientras eres guiado en las investigaciones por un curioso detective." The Spanish-language edition of the Ministry of Mundane Mysteries format, made in Lima: the participant submits a small domestic mystery from their own life and is guided through the investigation by a detective over short daily calls, Monday to Saturday. Promoted as "teatro real y sin pantallas" — real theater, no screens. Free, funded by the Canadian Embassy.
IN SPANISH. Produced by ANIMALIEN (Fiorella Pennano, with Norma Martínez), licensed from Outside the March and folded into the international Ministry ensemble. The first non-Anglophone work in this census outside the French ones, and evidence that the format traveled by licence rather than by imitation.
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
A voice call; the promotion stresses there are no screens.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
The participant takes the calls at home.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
"Teatro real y sin pantallas" — the line is the whole channel.
- Site-, situation- or language-specificSituationI
The mystery must come from the participant's own household.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
No documented past of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
No urban dependence.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoP
Presented as teatro.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The promotion's own word is teatro.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
Not addressed.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
The participant supplies the mystery and is the protagonist of it.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
An improvising actor-detective on every call.
- Involves game playnoI
An investigation with no win state or score.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
Not addressed.
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