Other Women

By: Anneli Friedner

Art – Patriarchy – Female friendships
Scenario format: Larp
Duration: 4 hours
Number of players: 4

Why were there no great female artists?
History will call them something different. Muses, mistresses, wives.

It is late 19th century and we play the women around a great male genius.
He is mostly off screen, busy elsewhere. We are the ones surrounding him. His wife and his mistress, her sister, his pupil. Attractive women. His biographer will call us “his affairs”.

We are supposed to hate each other, being rivals for his attention. Maybe they told you too what they told us as children – that girls can’t play three, because girls always compete? Depending on who wrote our story, we might be a deceived wife, a homewrecker, the other woman and a naïve girl getting victimised by the great male genius and his libido.
But that is not at all how we remember it.

“Other Women” is a scenario about sisterhood, friendship and some great female artists.
It is about creating, art and getting the possibility to take oneself seriously as an artist.
It is about the trappings of womanhood and how they limit female artists. It is about sex.
It is about seeing and being seen.

The game is about developing the relationships between these women and how they grow to like, love and support each other.

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About the author
Anneli Friedner has been a larper since her early teenage years. She is passionate about larp, art, queer, feminism and sexuality. She works as a high school teacher, enjoys making workshops and writing about things that interests her.

Anneli has organised larps in Granlandskampanjen and been part of the organiser team behind Prolog. Her first blackbox scenario, As Long as We Don’t Tell Anyone, ran at Stockholm Scenario Festival 2021 and 2023.