Kjærlighet i fornedringens tid

Kjærlighet i fornedringens tid (Love in the age of debasement) was a game run in Norway and Sweden in 2001, [[:Category:2002|2002], [[:Category:2009|2009], 2010. It has been run in the following cities: Malmø (SydCon), Stockholm (Knutpunkt 2002), Oslo (Larpfactory), Vesterås, Stockholm (Knutpunkt 2010), Trondheim

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

We are trying to grasp the moment when a couple realizes that their crisis is a fact, we are aiming at the very eye of the storm. At least one of the involved parties will be put to the test: How do we experience love in an age where it would seem that it so often don`t work out?

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

• Gamedescription for the 2010 run at Knutpunkt 2010 - http://knutpunkt.se/Members/erlend/love-in-the-age-of-debasement-kjaerlighet-i-fornedringens-tid/