The Naked Truth

Four men have gathered for a long-awaited sauna evening. 

Summer cottage, couple of beers, and old friends. They do not stay in touch as much as they would like, but the sauna evening is a tradition from the days of old. Back then, they shared dreams and desires, but the years have taken their toll. 

Sitting in the steaming sauna, all of them are pondering: What can I tell the others? What will they think of me? And in the end, will they be there for me?

The Naked Truth (FI), by Arttu Hanska and Joonas Katko, is a feel-good scenario is about the difficulty of talking and opening up. In Finnish culture, sauna is something that removes social boundaries. It’s a place where everybody is equal. Rank, wealth, and seniority carry no weight there. Everybody is naked, both physically and mentally. You are not in a hurry. And in this place alone you can cast away the stoic shell that the society expects of Finnish men.

Player type: You enjoy internal dialogue and weighting every word. You like to take things slow and to give space for silence. You enjoy an understated slowly building feel-good atmosphere.

Life of an Egg

You'll have a chance to live as an egg. With egg-like contact with world, egg-like dreams and goals, egg-like purpose, egg-like destiny.

Life of an Egg (LT), by Andrius Ūdra, is an emotional roller-coaster that explores the topics of community and isolation. As well as hope and uncertainty.

Players should be comfortable with some touching.
Disclaimer: NOT recommended for claustrophobic participants, and for those who suffered a recent loss.

Credit photo: Debbie Hudson

Spellbound

Spellbound (DK), by Maria and Jeppe Bergmann Hamming, is a non verbal scenario about humans being lured to the Halls of the Mountain King, to a night of seduction, ecstasy, memories, conflict and the fight to return back home, when dawn disturbs the magic of the underground.

Filled with magic, myth and music. In a time before reason and order, before the forests were cut down, the lakes straightened and all of the soil farmed. In the shadows, in the corner of your eyes, beneath the earth we walked upon, dwelled something not human.

Before the dawn of reason shredded the shadows of magic, it was the time of the Undergrounders. Magical creatures of the North that played, danced, and longed to be near humans.

Sometimes a young man or woman would venture into the forest on Midsummer’s Eve and catch the eyes of an undergrounder. They would be lured to the halls of the Mountain King, where they would forget time, love, loyalty and all that they left behind. There they would get lost for perhaps even hundreds of years before returning to a world changed.

Credit photo: Simon James Pettitt, picture taken at Black box Horsens

The Fix

The therapist looks around in the circle. “All of you have a struggle inside. Your addiction and your humanity is raging a war in your body. I want you to close your eyes and visualize the two. Now split yourself in half. Which one is pulling the hardest today?” The Fix (DK) by Kristoffer Thurøe, is a physical, partner based larp where you together will tell the story of a patient at a rehab center. How much are you willing to sacrifice either for the next fix or to be clean?
Warning: There will be needles in the larp

2018 dates

We are happy to announce that the 9th Grenselandet will take place on October 19th and 20th 2018. Save the dates and stay tuned for updates.

Photo credit: John Voo@Flickr

Rush tickets

Want to play but haven´t signed up for any larps? Meet up at Slurpen (Lakkegata 79B) and you can buy a ticket to larps with vacant spots. Be there 10:30 for the morning section and 16:30 for the evening section! Rush tickets costs NOK 100 (NOK 50 if you under 26 or cannot afford a regular ticket).

Chrono couples

Time Eclipse (BY) by Elena Rabkina and Tatiana Smolyak is a larp that help to investigate relationships between people in the frame of time traveling. In this larp some participants will get on a space mission and others will become their family members that are left at Earth. Players will play time jumps of +3, +5, +10 years and will communicate with each other through short videos. This larp was inspired by "Interstellar" and invites you to explore questions concerning fragile human relationships and get on a trip across memories.