Help! It's a laiv
summary
A fictional emergency called help it's alive implants LARP methods inside the National Theatre, seating actors among 70 extras, 17 LARPers, 16 Red Cross members, 17 actors and audience hosts to pretend a 24‑hour performance never stopped. Scripted moments (a transcribed 20‑minute passage) and staged crises — coughing, nosebleeds, choking, seizures, birth contractions and a staged stroke — unfold as lights, moving stage and technicians escalate panic. The piece runs 45 minutes and succeeds in producing genuine confusion and embodied interventions rather than scripted spectatorship.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to the project
- 1:32Background in theatre and art
- 3:19Post-dramatic theatre and presence
- 6:10Fictional film set performance
- 8:44Forced Entertainment and the award
- 9:49Fictional emergency at the theatre
- 12:40Audience enters the chaotic scene
- 15:12Theatrical elements escalate
- 17:02LARPers and actors react
- 19:38Audience discomfort and blackout
- 20:25Conclusion and title meaning
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