Child-free

Autor:in: Axiel Cazeneuve
Sprache: EN
Themen: Pro choice, abortion,
Kategorien:
Spielerzahl: 7 bis 7
Spielleitungen: 1 (facilitator)
Dauer: 4
Raum: a dark room
Andere Anforderungen: A chair, a dark room, a spotlight, and an alarm

Beschreibung:

Childfree is a live-action role-playing game – the participants physically embody roles to tell a story together, in the absence of an audience – for 5 to 7 people, to be played in four hours all inclusive. It deals with abortion, or more precisely voluntary termination of pregnancy (VTP), by offering the players to embody on the one hand the social injunctions associated with pregnancy or abortion, and on the other hand the individuality of the pregnant person. The flexible and non-directive framework of the game enables the players to imagine and suggest various situations. The gender of the pregnant person, the details of their life, the legislative context… are entirely left to the people playing together, supported in this by the game documents, which are intended to be as clear and simple as possible. The decision to abort or continue the pregnancy is also, of course, left to the pregnant character (and thus to the person who plays them). By offering an experience that is entirely co-created by the participants, I wanted to share a bit of what undergoing a voluntary termination of pregnancy taught me, and the sense of liberation that came with it.