It’s a quiet, sunny summer day in the suburbs. The monthly neighborhood barbecue (and pie contest) will be hosted by the Kessenich family this Sunday. The Rossi and Lee family will be in attendance as usual, along with the Kessenich’s new tenant Brittany.
This is a character-driven drama, lightly plotted with no magic or supernatural elements. The setting is contemporary and realistic. Content may include abandonment, abortion, adultery, aging, crime, divorce, drug use, poverty, separation, se... (read more)
Twelve women, friends and strangers, happen to get into the same elevator. Enroute to important engagements, everyone has tough decisions to make. Nobody’s plans for the day included getting stuck in an elevator, but everyone now has the chance to pause, talk to some of the people who matter the most, get advice from strangers, and grapple with what to do next.
This game is about connections, conversations, hard life decisions, conflicting expectations among people who love each other, and the ... (read more)
Tonight is the cast party for a small community theater in a large college town. Their latest show "The Night Watchman's Daughter" has just finished relatively successfully. It was well- reviewed, covered its costs through ticket sales, and even made enough money to pay for some food and booze for a nice cast party. The last showing has gone up and it's time to relax, hang out with friends in the cast and talk about what's next.
Cast party is a game that looks at the relationship between pl... (read more)
Packing your life into boxes. . .so many boxes. . . As you prepare to close the door on one chapter of your life and move on to the next, you’re filled with memories of the past and dreams of the future. It’s a moment of hope and fear, sorrow and joy, loss and regret and the opportunity to start over—or sometimes, if you’re lucky, to heal the damage of the past. Thank goodness your friends will always rally around to help you pack, no matter what else happens in your lives.
Friends Help You P... (read more)
Wandering dreamers
Cracked out screamers
No longer working working-poor
Washed-up dried out high class whore
Toasting fortune, that bloody liar
Camped around the jungle fire
Misty got some coffee. Rich got some stew bones. There’s an onion, a carrot, a handful of barley, and, of course, a splash of wine. Tonight, we feast! Then the flasks pass around and everyone has a story to tell.
Here’s the underside. Some people are crazy. Some saw things they couldn’t take an... (read more)
Why do children have imaginary friends?
Sometimes imaginary friends are there to help kids work through issues they can’t handle alone. Sometimes a lonely child is looking for company. Sometimes it’s because their real friends have imaginary friends. And sometimes, maybe, they’re just for fun.
In Play Date, a group of kids have been left with a teenage babysitter for an afternoon. There will be toys, craft time, pizza, and maybe some existential angst.
Play Date is a game about children deali... (read more)
The Road Not Taken is an experimental LARP of decisions and emotions. In it, each player will have the opportunity to take the spotlight in a scene and make a tough decision. The game can handle 6-12 players.
The scenes in The Road Not Taken are not continuous. There is no continuity of plot or character for each scene. Before each scene, the players will get new characters specific to that scene. Think of the game as 6-12 mini LARPs each lasting about 10 minutes, but building to a whole.