By: Carolina Renman
Misery – Poetic – Blackbox
Scenario format: Larp
Duration: 4 hours
Number of players: 6-30
In a near future Earth is no longer habitable, so in order to save mankind all humans are to be taken to Mars to inhabit that planet. Aniara is one of many spaceships that transport refugees from Earth to Mars. During a routine trip to Mars, something happens that make Aniara go off course and go into space. Unable to turn back the spaceship, the 10 000 people onboard are doomed to live the rest of their lives in a ”sarcophagus”.
The larp follows normal people from getting onboard Aniara, their hopes of a new life on Mars, their despair as they realize they will never get back and their different means of coping (or not coping) with the fact that they are never going to see their loved ones ever again. The evergrowing misery as the years go by and all they see outside of the spacecraft is endless unchanging night and, finally, their quiet deaths.
The larp is inspired and heavily influenced by the book Aniara – a review of man in time and space by Swedish author Harry Martinsson, and the 2018 movie Aniara based on Martinsson’s book.
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About the author
Carolina has been writing blackbox larps and scenarios since 2013. Her larps have been run at Blackbox Copenhagen, Grenselandet in Oslo, and at the Swedish larp convention Prolog. In her normal life, Carolina is an expert on documentation of construction work.
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