Kjærlighet i fornedringens tid

Kjærlighet i fornedringens tid (Love in the age of debasement) was a game run in Norway and Sweden in 2001, 2010

Summary

We are in Norway (alt. Sweden). The year is 2010. You are a couple living in Norway or are having a short, not especially spectacular holiday in Norway. You meet at a cafè. The meeting developes into a serious talk, an explosion or implosion of emotions. You are playing a couple that have been together for a while (6 month and up to 2 years). Not living together. It is about the confrontations that might show up, when we are forced or stumbled into making a stand. It is about our realtionships, when we grasp that somethings does not work. The critical moment when we have to understand that

• this might be the end
• this might be the start of something new and perhaps more sincere

Techniques

• Slow take-off
• Slow Landing
• Monologue
• Ars Amandi (a prequel to the technique later known as Ars Amandi)
• Stream of Consciousness Characterdescription
• Pre-emptive characters
• Keyscenes triggered by music
• A Dogma 99 game

Documentation

• Review of the 2001 version of the game by Lars Wingård - http://laivforum.net/entries/14-Review-av-Kj%C3%A6rlighet-i-fornedringens-tid

Articles

• The pre-emptive character - (Bloggarticle about the characterconcepts) - http://larpwright.efatland.com/?p=214

Video presentation

• One of the runs of the game filmed by Jana Pouchlá (Czech Republic) at Knutpunkt 2010

External Links

• photos from the 2009 run for the Larpfactory in Oslo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/yunyard/sets/72157622244313213/
• http://laivfabrikken.no/love_in_the_age_of_debasement/index.html