Last minute information on A nice evening with the family

Dear Participants,

A week to the premier we have some last minute information to you all.

A free spot
We have a few spots left on the game, and since we think the games will be better for you all if the they are full we are offering all current participants an extra spot on another game for free.

All you need to do is e-mail anders@sverok.se which extra game you want to play on. And if there is an open spot for your gender on that game we will reserve it for you and inform you about it. There are about 20 places left, so first come, first serve.

Game 1, 17 – 19/8: 3 Male and 1 female
Game 2, 19 – 21/8: 3 Female, 1 male or female spot
Game 3, 21 – 23/8: 8 Female, 4 male and 2 male or female spots
Game 4, 23 – 25/8: 2 Female, 2 male

Please be specific in you mail what game you want to play in. For example:
“I would like an extra spot, prefebly on game 3, but if that’s not possible game 1”

If you have a friend that haven’t signed up yet, they can go to our website and sign up the usual way and pay the entrance fee just as you all did. Remember that you can still get the SEK 500 fee reduction if you recruit a friend.

Arriving by train
Please e-mail us on enstillamiddag@gmail.com with what time you want to be picked up at and returned the train station so we can plan ahead.

Arriving by car
We don’t have a forum, but if you want to coordinate your selves in different cars we recommend g-punkt on: www.larp.com/galadrim.

A change in the red thread
Instead of Christian, it’s the count (Miss Julie) that takes over the function of the fisherman in Muminpappa at sea.

Bring
The literary compendium
Bed linen
Towels
Money for the bar
A wedding ring (if you’re a married character)
Camera

The after party/evalutation
We have about 100 guests signed up for the after party/evaluation. We will not have beds for you all. Bring sleeping bags and what you need if you end up sleeping on the floor. The participants of the forth game who will keep their beds and can therefore stick with their bed linen. We will have food for dinner and breakfast, but for drinks – bring your own.

See you all soon,

/Anna, Anders and the rest of the organizers of A nice evening with the family

A question

We had another question, and below my answer in case you wonder as well.


Hello

I wanted to check something about the game. I am bit unclear on the
instructions a little - do we actually have to learn our lines from the play
that we are in? It doesnt say in the instructions anywhere that we are going
to be performing the play at all?

Thank you



Hi,

What will happen is that you will read the play in your group and then
you will analys the play and what your carachar will do in the
different acts. For example in act one my carracter will talk to yours
and reveal a secret. Then we both know that we are soppose to have
this konversation in act one (before 7 o'clock) and we can both try to
find a way to play so that we can make that scene happen.
When we do the scene we can use lines from the play, that we happend
to remember, or that we thougt fitted in the play. But it's not
nessesary. The important thing is that we have the scene and my role
tell your role my secret so your can act on it futher along in the
game. So if you want to learn some lines, feel free, but it's not
nessersary.
So you are not accually gone preform the play, thou preformance
indicate an audiance, which we don't have, you are guest at Helges 60
years birthday party. So you will be the guest and sing for him, and
talk politly with people that you meet and so on. But you will also
have theese different actions to do with your fellow players.

I hope this makes thing a bite more clear for you, and I see you in august.

Best, Anna

stay around?

We sometimes get’s letter like this one nowdays:

”Hi,
I’m a very nice friendly participant, and I just discovered something:

I’m arraving, to early
/I want to stick around the next game to be able to go to the after-party
/or any other good reason.

and I was wondering:

Is it possible that I can stay for another game?”

This would be our answer for now:

No, we’re sorry. Follökna isn’t that big and we want to be able to focus on the participants and don’t want other people hanging around.

But, we haven’t filled all spots yet and Friday the 10th of august we will release them for free to you participants. So anyone that is already signed up and paid will be able to e-mail us and get another spot on another game. This is because we think you’re experiance will be better with full game, so we will do everything to fill them. But there will not be enough room for everyone, so first come, first serve. We will send you an e-mail and then you will be able to reply. Only then they spots will be free for you, our participants.

I also be possible that people become sick and don’t show up and then we will need people to fill up there places, but this we will know just before the games starts, so then it will be up to you if you want to take a chance and stick around hoping that we will have a spot. But it we don’t you’ll have to leave.

Another possibility is that we will discover that we need some extra staff to do something for us, that we haven’t thought of now. But this, of course, as well, will we know of very late.

Hope this answers your questions,

Anna

Festen and what to bring more

I hope you all have gotten your books, and roles right now, and that you are all very happy.

Why we didn't include the celebration (Festen) in the book is because of that we didn't get premission to do it from Tomas Vinterberg's publisit. But it does exists as a manuscript and we will have them at the larp.

In the Swedish version we will have the interpetation done by a Swedish theater (Dramaten, in Stockholm) and in the Enlish game we will have av version done by David Eldridge that is avaliable at amazon.com. If you want to, you can also borrow a copy from us oragnizers of both the Swedish and English one. Just send us a mail.


Stuff to bring
Besides what it says in the information booklet, it can be a good idea to bring:
A digital camera (this is modern time)
Wedingrings. - if you are a married carchater, bring a fake weding-ring. In Stockholm you can buy male ones at Punkt shop for 39 SEK and female ones at Glitter for 59 SEK.
Then of course your litterary compendium, bedlinnen and some money for the bar.

Best,

Anna

All larps has it’s fortress…

… as in something big, and that takes to much work, that you usually didn’t expect it would. You will get ours in your letterbox this week. I posted it for the first game today. To morrow, when the printing machine at Sverok Stockholm has been repaired, I will post letters to the rest of you.
This will also be the only secret of this larp, basically because we wasn’t sure we could pull it of. But we did. See your mail-box later this week.

That is also why it’s been a bite quite here. But now I’m back. There have been some updates on the webpage in case you haven’t notice. Read under “The story” and “practical matters”.

I’m also proud to present three new people to the logistisks; Caroline Andersson, Fredrik von Post och Frida Åhlvik.

Best,

Anna

The saga continues

We just had another directors week-end where we summarized the results of all our different ideas and we have now a quite clear picture on what the larp will look like. This is going to be so much fun, it’s just to join the ride. Now all the directors are choosing plays and will really dig deep down into one play.

We also test cooked the diner, and we all agreed that the food was really good.

Me, I’m working with to get the plays in print for you so that you all can read them if you want before. I’m also working with the logistic people, to make kitchen and stuff like that work as it should.

And most fun we are doing the saga behind the larp, drawing treads between the different plays; These two are sisters, she is his ex and bitter wife, and who is the countess’s lover? These are all very interesting questions.

And of course, we are working on the information you will receive after the 30th of june.

Best, Anna

A different way of assigning roles

As we all know A nice evening with the family is based on 7 plays. The characters of these will be the characters the participants will enact during the game. When working with the plays the project managers have noticed that it is easier to reach a deeper and broader understanding of the plays when you have not already aware of which character you will be playing. We have therefore decided that game number two will have a different way of assigning the roles. The roles for game two will not be sent to the players beforehand, instead they will be given after the different play-groups have done a reading and an initial interpretation of their respective plays.

If anyone want to change to or from game two because of this difference you are more than welcome to contact Anders Hultman on the e-mail address sent to you in your confirmation e-mail.

Regards,

/Anders