Limbo
16.4. at 6 p.m.
by Tor Kjetil Edland
Minimum attendance: 6
Maximum attendance: 12
The game will be played in English
Because of cancellations there is room for a couple more players
Playing time: Up to 4 hours, of which 2 hours is game.
Preparations: For this game we ask you to bring some kind of sleeping clothes that you're comfortable in as a costume (pyjamas, nightgown, dressing gown...).
Limbo is a game about a group of people from our own day and age who are hovering between life and death and who find themselves in a strange place. The realm of Limbo is beyond time. It is a waiting place where the characters can reflect on life as it has been so far before either returning to life once again or facing the unknown on the other side of death.
The character you play is an alternate version of you and it is up to you what the character is like.
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The Grand Mechanism
7.5. at 6 p.m.
by Jani-Petteri Olkkonen,
Johanna MacDonald,
Aarni Korpela
Minimum attendance: 5
Maximum attendance: 10
The game will be played in English
Playing time: 4 hours - 2 hours of workshopping, 2 hours of game.
"For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground
And tell sad stories of the death of kings;
How some have been deposed; some slain in war,
some haunted by the ghosts they have deposed;
Some poison'd by their wives: some sleeping kill'd;
All murder'd..."
The Grand Mechanism is a game based on a theatre piece based on a game based on Shakespeare. But it's more complicated than that...
It's difficult, and that's where the fun is.
First it was a theatre piece approaching game, and now it's a game approaching theatre. It should be interesting to all those who are interested in where the two meet.
Grand Mechanism (Suuri Koneisto in Finnish, concept and direction by Jani-Petteri Olkkonen) the theatre piece was described thus: "Inspired by the theories of Jan Kott and René Girard, Suuri Koneisto is an evening of score-based improvisation on the mechanism of power in Shakespeare's history plays and in all social worlds. The rules are simple: do what you need to do to stay in power, or just stay alive."
While Grand Mechanism the theatre piece took months of hard work to master, and even then only just, in Grand Mechanism the game the rules are modified so that they can be learned during a workshop. But control over the game and confidence with it is not the purpose of the workshop. It is a world where you have to struggle to survive, be prepared to run on the empty stage with nothing and make something--and make it fast. To intertwine story lines, listen to others so you can offer them as much trouble as possible, keep in mind the power structures, and make room for your prepared Shakespeare monologue (find a place to say it, or die!). It's living on the edge of a sword, for both the players and the characters.
For more about Grand Mechanism the performance, see the blog.
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This is your dream
4.6. at 6 p.m.
by Aarni Korpela
Minimum attendance: 6
Maximum attendance: -
Playing time: 3 hours, includind 1,5 hours of game.
Preparations: Take your mobile phone with you. If this is a problem, we have some extra ones.
"I am a salmon holding a salmon. But if I'm holding myself, I must be... God? But If I am God, why am I not all knowing? I must be a forgetful God, and that's why I'm carrying myself around..."
(Musings of player in a previous game)
When you open your eyes, this is your dream. Anything can happen. It makes sense in the dream. An elevator can be an airport. A person can be turning into a werewolf while remaining the same. Around you you'll hear other people's dreams. You can join them, dream together, and part again. We will start at the theatre and then leave to dream around the city.
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