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Bunker 101

The world ended. The instruction manual did not.

A post-apocalyptic 1950s dystopia staged four kilometres deep inside the Soratte Bunker outside Rome — a real anti-aircraft complex dug from 1937 onward. Families are numbered, duties are assigned, and the Commissions keep the paperwork. Somewhere between Pleasantville, Dr. Strangelove, Chernobyl and Fallout, with a bureaucracy that plays as horror.

Miskatonic University

Some knowledge should have stayed in the stacks.

An academic year at the university that shouldn't exist, staged in the mediaeval Kliczków Castle in Lower Silesia. Lectures, faculty politics, secret societies and a library that answers back — the Cthulhu Mythos played as campus drama rather than monster hunt. A separate North American edition runs on a US campus for a largely different audience.

A science-fiction drama staged at Alvernia Planet, the domed film-studio complex outside Kraków — a set that already looks like a base on another world before we touch it. Airlocks, corridors, a bridge, and light design that does most of the acting. Closer to Interstellar and Arrival than to space opera: the crisis is real, but the story is about chains of command, love, and what people sign their names to. Our largest production to date by attendance.

Expedition Sahara

1934. A lost city, and the people who want it for different reasons.

Staged in the Tunisian Sahara from the Sahara Douz — the largest hotel of the Eastern Erg — and the Maison du Voyageur, then out into a fully dressed camp at the heart of the largest desert on earth. Archaeologists, journalists, soldiers and financiers cross the sand together for four days. The heat, the dark and the silence are not effects — they are the set, and they do more to the cast than any script could.

The Secrets We Keep

Everyone came back. Nobody came back the same.

An intimate psychological drama for thirty to forty players, staged at the Convento dell'Incontro in the hills above Florence — a 1716 building on an older hermitage, held by woods on every side. A group who grew up together in the same institution return as adults. No monsters, no plot to defeat. Just the thing nobody said, eighteen years ago, and the weekend it takes to say it.

1630 & the repertory

Smaller rooms, sharper knives.

1630 puts a plague year inside the walled mediaeval village of Po' Sante di Sotto in Umbria. Zoo is a chamber piece about a brokerage agency and the people it trades in, driven by mechanics rather than sets, staged at DAS — Dispositivo Arti Sperimentali — in Bologna. And the International Larp Festival gathers the scene for a weekend of concurrent short-form larps — the place where the formats we are still arguing about get played first.