PULP

Language: Italian

Genre: Pulp

Format: one shot

Location: Novara, Novara (NO)

PULP

23/03/2018 - 25/03/2018

Genre: Pulp

Format: one shot

Location: Novara, Novara (NO)

Abstract

Going by its name, PULP drew inspiration from pulp literature and cinema: it was conceived as “a larp of action and blood, violence and foul language, sex and taboo, power, comedy and grotesque”. A hundred players portrayed gangsters belonging to different criminal gangs, each in its own way stereotyped, with freedom of movement over a very large area. In contrast with the typical use of a reclusive location, PULP has been played over a dozen sites, several kilometers away from each other, with no predefined boundaries. A luxury villa, an inn, a strip bar, a fishing hut, a music studio, a football pitch... huge effort has been put into giving the participants a chance to play this story with the real world as a scenery. In several cases, this required the cooperation of the local population, and the experiment worked above expectations: bartenders, patrons, and even local police officers volunteered for cameos as non-player characters, creating genuine and lively interactions.