Work
The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries: Power Hour
Maker Outside the March · Work date 2021-01-18 · Medium telephone · Role work
Description
Does your furnace sound funny? Where did your winter boots go? Why does it get so dark so early? Let the Ministry of Mundane Mysteries solve your most mundane queries this winter in one exciting hour of uplift and adventure—all over your phone! After the success of our week-long mystery adventure, for a very limited time we’re bringing back a one-hour, one-shot edition for those long January nights. Now you and your family can experience your very own personalized mystery all in one unforgettable Power Hour. While this precarious time is still upon us, experience joy, connection, and whimsy with the ones closest (or farthest) from you. With your entire ticket price going to pay the performers involved!
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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
Delivered “all over your phone”; no headphones are requested.
- Participants move through space as part of the worknoI
Nothing in the listing requires the participant to change location during the hour.
- Audio technology is necessaryyesP
The whole mystery is delivered “all over your phone.”
- Site-, situation- or language-specificSituationI
The work names the circumstance it needs — the participant’s own household and its mundane queries (“Does your furnace sound funny? Where did your winter boots go?”).
- Engages with the history of a sitenoI
The mystery is the participant’s own domestic puzzle, not documented past events of an identifiable real place.
- Created for an urban environmentnoI
A per-household phone experience presupposes a phone and a home, not city density.
- Created as an artwork other than theaternoI
No non-theatrical discipline is named in the listing.
- Intended to be understood as theateryesP
The listing sells tickets and states the “entire ticket price” pays “the performers involved.”
- Accidental real-world sights and sounds are importantyesI
The design draws its material from whatever is actually happening in the participant’s home.
- Spectator must participateyesI
A “very own personalized mystery” built for you and your family requires the participant to supply and discuss it.
- Has live performers other than the participantsyesP
Performers are paid to deliver the calls, and the piece is a one-hour edition of the improvised live phone adventure.
- Involves game playnoI
The Ministry solves the mystery for the participant; no rules, scoring or win/lose state is set.
- Uses props other than the listening deviceunknown?
No required handling of any object is stated.
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