Close To Home

Participants: 5-8 players

By

The Smoke (2023), Theatre Delicatessen, London, United Kingdom

Balint Mark Turi

Stockholm Scenario Festival (2023), Långholmens Folkhögskola, Stockholm, Sweden

Balint Mark Turi

Description

Close to Home is a short larp about memories of colours, spaces, and connection. The game builds on the memories of the participants in the form of drawing floor plans of rooms from their childhoods. These rooms then get connected, filled with characters, and form the home of a community. At the end, we imagine how the larp was that we never played in these colourful spaces. The story of a community emerges in retrospect, from larping a debrief session.

Close to Home is an easy to play, fast game that accommodates first time or non-experienced players through a thorough workshop, building up to the moment of actual roleplaying. The game aims to create a feeling of togetherness in the players.
The game also plays around with the structural elements of larps. It leads the participants through the workshop phase, then jumps to a debrief. Thus debriefing becomes the larp itself, giving way to their emergent story.

It is an attempt to invite participants to meditate on the nature of how we can value the most important things, like being part of a community, only in retrospect.

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