The first show out of the gate is Four Chambers: A Series of Staged Nordic LARPs, directed by Marc Majcher.
A Nordic LARP is a specific type of live-action role-playing game, where the players seek to immerse themselves in the feelings and reality of the characters portrayed, to collaborate to create a compelling story, and to generate something that goes beyond entertainment, and instead makes an artistic or political statement.
If this sounds like improv, you’re totally right. Viewed through that lens, a Nordic LARP provides the rules and context for a carefully wound-up world that improvisers will inhabit during a given show.
In Four Chambers, each week is a different world, or set of rules. In sequence, the carefully selected LARPs take us on an increasingly fantastic and far-flung journey.
May 9th- The Tribunal: An intense contest of wills as a desperate group of prisoners must make difficult life-or-death choices.
May 16th- Previous Occupants: A ghost story about jealousy, trust and desire in two acts.
May 23rd- Juggernaut: It’s 1950, the Korean War has just begun, and a group of scientists have invented a computer that can see into the future.
May 30th- Icebox: An all-new creation by Director Marc Majcher about the inhabitants of a spaceship on a very, very long journey.