By: Linton Kennegård
Endings –Conflict – Loss
Scenario format: Larp
Duration: 3-4 hours
Number of players: 4-8 players
This larp is about divorce. How it changes one of the most important relationships of our lives into something else. Divorce is an event that changes the past, retroactively creating its own causes; reshaping the rules of what is possible.
We do not believe divorce to be inherently evil, for a lot of people it is breaking free of something destructive, or the beginning of a more fulfilling life. Divorce, just as love, is only violent in a strictly formal sense, in that it disrupts reality. This does make divorce extraordinary, but it does not necessarily make it bad.
Most people go through divorce and move on. With or without any lasting connection to their former partner. Some remain friends, some not. Some become enemies, some not. Usually, however, divorce is the end.
This larp is not about that.
This larp is about what happens when a messy breakup turns even worse, and conflict engulfs every part of the new relationship that emerges when two persons formerly in love pass through divorce.
What happens when there is no choice whether to sever the connection to your former partner, though you do not wish for anything else? What happens when you cannot wait to have them out of your life, but your lives are forever connected through parenthood?
The larp consists of three acts and six monologues (three per player). The larp starts with each player sitting in their lawyers office explaining why the other player is unfit to be a parent. From that point we go backwards in time.
Act 1 depicts the last stage of the divorce when the players are intertwined in a deep and bloody conflict with each other.
Act 2 is about the stage after divorce when the players’ charaters are trying to cope with the separation and loss of the former relationship.
Act 3 takes place long before the divorce when the players are still in love.
The larp ends in a monoluge where the players gets to describe why they think that the other parent would be a good parent, and why they’ve choosen to bring a child into the world with them.
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About the author
Linton has been roleplaying since he was a kid, but was introduced to freeform and black-box larp through the first edition of Stockholm Scenario Festival. When Linton’s not larping he’s an attorney specialized in cases concerning divorces and custody over children.
Linton’s first experience writing a larp is with Truly, Madly, Deeply which he has written together with Mina Svärd, who is also an attorney and colleague of Linton’s.
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