The Circle
| Website | https://thecirclelarp.dk/ |
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| Date | September 17-20 & 20-23 2024 |
| Location | Sct Knudsborg, Lille Brogårdsvej 12, Bro Stran, 5464 Brederup Fyn, Denmark |
| Participants | 35 per run |
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The Circle is a Nordic Larp about people and relationships in a cult.
The Larp takes place over the span of a few days, where the members of a modern self-development cult are challenged to better themselves enough to be allowed to progress within the cult.
The Methods of The Circle
The cult makes use of different methods to help people achieve their best self. The more benign are things like sharing circles, singing and jamming together or giving your time and energy to the group. The ideology of The Circle dictates that all members may submit any other member to any practice that might help them.
The cult also employs more transgressive methods for bringing people into harmony. This can be things like Hot Chair, where one member sits surrounded by other members, while they berate them in order to make them realize their faults or limitations.
It can be forced sex between any number of people, and even sexual violence, to open a person up and teaching them to submit to others. It can also be physical violence in order to break someone from their ego.
There are also one-on-one conversations, where one cult member might try to help another confront a limitation or trauma.These sessions vary between caring conversations and a harsh forceful demands on one of the members to be more open.
The cult often has rituals, where a chapter house gathers together to make sure the group is in harmony and these are opportunities to call out those not in harmony and promote or demote people in terms of levels.
All methodologies used during the larp are taken from real life high control groups.
Further credits
Idea, concept, design & visual identity: Louise and Stefan Skriver Lægteskov, Jofrid Regitzesdatter and Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo
Further design, characters and event design & management: Jofrid Regitzesdatter & Troels Barkholt-Spangsbo
The Circle was organized under the NGO Kalk and with very appreciated help from:
Katrine Wind, Katrine Dahl, Katrine Kavli, Maria and Jeppe Bergman Hamming, Thor Fejerskov, Marie Wolfsberg Oscilowski, My Lægteskov, Lars Christian Andersen, Chris Blæsbjerg, Maria and Juhana Petterson, Kristian Bach Petersen, Simon Steen Hansen, Anna Katrine Werge Bønnelycke, Halfdan Keller Justesen, Benedicte Würtz Uhrenholt, Henrik Vridstoft, Søren Lyng Ebbehøj, Juliane Mikkelsen.
