Work
The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries: On Call
Maker Outside the March · Work date 2023-05-15 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
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 solving over 1000 cases in 233 cities worldwide, the Ministry is back with a team of 25 inspectors ready to tackle your case. Ready for the best part? This experience is now available ON CALL! Inspectors are ready any time, day or night. Just book your experience at a time that works for you, and The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries will be there. Book now, 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; it has run in 233 cities worldwide.
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
Content comes from the audience member's own micro mystery, not documented events of a real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
Bookable by phone anywhere, with no city infrastructure presupposed.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
Framed by a theater company as an improvised experience, with no non-theatrical discipline named.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The listing uses 'audience members' and comes from a theater company selling booked experiences.
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantunknown?
The listing does not say uncontrolled surroundings figure in the work.
Did you experience this? Tell us - Spectator must participateyesP
The inspectors work from the audience member's own case through conversation, requiring them to speak.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
The listing describes a team of 25 inspectors improvising on booked calls at any hour.
- Involves game playunknown?
Case-solving implies an objective and resolution but no rules or win/lose state are established.
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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