Schedule

The programme schedule for Grenselandet is now ready. Ticket holders should have received instructions on how to sign up for individual laprs.

Night Terror

 

Out final larp announcement this year is Night Terror by Jesper Heebøll. This larp is replacing Magic Motown Printer Room where the organizers had to cancel for unforeseen reasons.

The larp, Night terror, is an ensemble story about persons suffering from nightmares or night terror attacks and other persons that try to help by entering the nightmares. Together they struggle against the night terror, paying steeper and steeper prices to overcome it, but in the end, they will lose themselves to the dream.

It is an ensemble story in the sense that players will get to play several instances of the same core story, but with different characters and different backgrounds.

They play in groups of three; one person will be the dreamer, which is the person suffering from night terrors, another person will be the caretaker that tries to help the dreamer, and the third person will be the night terror, which is the physical embodiment of all that is horrible within the dream.

The larp will mostly be played as an exploration of a dreamscape where the players get to set a multitude of scenes of what happens in the dream. They will be short dreamlike sequences that may or may not have any relation to each other. It is a collaborative exercise where you the players will improvise and conjure up moments, sometimes based on images, sometimes just based on imagination.

Summer of 69

Summer of 69 - by Mikkel Funch Brunberg is a larp about patients who have been suffering for years, before they are returned to a healthy condition for one single summer. A heartwarming and though-provoking scenario about how we see each other as humans.

1969, Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx, NY: It’s easy but loveless work, the everyday existing alongside the catatonic patients. Living but barely alive, the years silently creep past them.

As a new drug is administered, the patients come to life after decades of standstill. The friendships that follow create a sense of community and purpose; they make everyone bloom anew and truly live.

But miracles don’t last forever.

In Summer of ‘69, players will take on the roles of patients and orderlies as the new drug takes effect, as the patients experience the world anew, and as the effects of the drug inevitably wear off and the patients revert to their catatonic state. Only now surrounded by love.

Carousel

We have another larp for you this Sunday evening - Carousel by Alex Brown.

Carousel is a rite of passage for the Sun Commune to honour the transition to renewable energy and punctuate the passing of time with a dance ceremony.

The larp takes inspiration from its namesake scene in Logan’s Run, inverting its dystopian nature through ecstatic dance and building mirror balls under the influence of speculative fiction writers such as Ursula K Le Guin and Marge Piercy.

In the decentralised spirit of solarpunk, the workshop and larp is weighted towards collaborative co-design of the community, its social values, and activities. By experimenting with transformative ways of organising society and degrowth, there is an invitation for players to reflect on hopes and fears for society and climate. 

The World of X

We're very pleased to announce a larp from Palestine at this year's festival - The World of X, by Haneen Hashaikeh, Ayham Mousa, Duaa Omary and Dania Natsheh - where the
latter two will be running the scenario at Grenselandet.

The World of X is a political sci-fi LARP that won a larp design competition held by our Palestinian partner organization Beit Byout.

The scenario revolves around the same family living in two different timelines. The future showed that they are now invaded by aliens and the family is trying to communicate with their past selves through a time machine to prevent that from happening. 

The Tale of a People

 We're pleased to announce a redesign of a larp from the Norwegian larpmaker Frida Sofie Jansen - The Tale of a People. 

There once was a people. They lived lives, held rituals and beliefs, they loved one another, battled problems, created greatness.

They are long gone now. But stories remain. Symbols. Dents in history.

As a participant in ""The Tale"" you will be part of the people. And part of deciding what was left behind. This is a collaborative creation of a history.

Omega Station

 

Our next announcement is a sci-fi drama, Omega Station by Maksym Tiseiko.

Derelict space station orbiting a distant star, a decaying leviathan of metal whose every course correction sets it groaning and creaking. A skeleton crew, who is fighting tirelessly to maintain the station's precarious orbit. 

After years in the void, Earth had become a mere whisper in their dreams, a distant memory.

They set their equipment and brace for the impending storm. The star’s corona erupts a maddeningly blue radiance, and mysterious Visitors with hauntingly familiar faces appear aboard.

*

You light a cigarette, too bored to care  if the Captain would notice and start one of her endless speeches about health and safety protocols. You slip on the headset, tuning the receiver to another frequency with the mechanical familiarity born of endless repetition. White noise, just like a thousand times before.

Then a faint melody fills the room, coming seemingly out of nowhere, and your heart sinks. She had chosen that song for your wedding all those years ago. Tears, hovering weightlessly in zero-g, glisten like tiny constellations.

Suddenly the shriek of a station-wide alarm startles you wide awake. Radiation readings are wild, the star somehow shifted its entire emission spectrum to a maddeningly blue hue. The station rumbles and groans like a multitude of suffering souls are roaming its corridors.

A warm, familiar, impossible hand rests on your shoulder. 

"Don’t be afraid, my love," she whispers. "It’s just the wind in the trees"