Keep it in the Family

Participants: 6 players

By

✏️	Mo Holkar
	Mo Holkar

Description

All families have secrets. Some families are very good at keeping them� But when one comes out, others may follow. What will happen when you�re dragged out into the light? Will you Keep it in the Family?

Six characters meet at a family dinner. Each has a secret. Each is torn between love, loyalty, and fear of exposure. During the course of the larp, all these secrets will come out � this is not about whether secrets can be kept or not. It�s about what happens when they emerge.

The larp will play out during a succession of scenes that prelude, make up, and epilogue the dinner party. Not all characters will be involved in all scenes (the so-called �spotlight scenes� structure).

The characters are designed skeletally, and players will flesh them out together during a preparatory workshop preceding the larp. There will also be a debrief afterwards to help process the emotional effects of play.

Recommended for people who are interested in tabletop storygaming and in Nordic-style larp. And/or who�ve enjoyed The Outsiders or None but the Brave that I�ve been involved in running the last couple of Consequenceses.

(This larp was heavily inspired by Ashley Griffiths' A Family Affair, which I strongly recommend.)

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