Participants sitting in a circle on a dark stage under a single light

Theatre where the audience creates the play in real time

What this is

We are a theatre company exploring new forms of audience participation. Our passion is to create immersive experiences and educational programs where people become active participants. Our ambition is to encourage people not just to consume, but to co-create art.

No actors. No spectators. Everyone plays.

Performances

Participants in headphones moving in the dark

Qualia

We come to know things in different ways. But what can only be known by experiencing?

A wide circle of participants on a dark stage

Encircling

Imagine losing your memory. Who would you ask for the truth and what would they tell you about yourself?

Failure

Everyone keeps one failure they never talk about. An old house in Belleville is collecting them.

Black curtains stretched across a brick courtyard

Inbox

What if your whole life took just one evening? What message would you leave?

For Groups

Team trainings

We use LARP to put teams into situations they cannot rehearse in a meeting room. Participants make decisions together, communicate under pressure, take responsibility and deal with unexpected outcomes.

Each programme combines workshops, a live experience and a facilitated debrief, and can be adapted to the challenges your team is working on. Our facilitators are certified coaches, each with 10+ years of experience working in business environments.

From 4 hours to 2 days · From 2 to 100 participants.

Private & corporate events

Bring your group inside one of our stories. We adapt our LARP experiences for private groups, company events and special occasions — with the space, game masters and theatrical set-up built around your group.

From small groups to large-scale events.

A game master explains a scene to a participant

Timeline

2016Encircling and Inbox are created at LARP.Moscow Lab. Inbox premieres at Stay Hungry Festival.
2017Encircling premieres at The Day of Norway Festival, Moscow.
2018Failure is created at IESA Arts & Culture, Paris.
2019Failure premieres at Théâtre Les Enfants Terribles, Belleville, Paris.
2021Qualia is created and premiered during a residency at La Générale, Paris.
2023Qualia is presented at the 5th Tel Aviv International Theatre Festival.

Team

Sasha OvechkinProducer · Experience Designer

Lisa KelesidouCoordinator · Facilitator

Sonia NadezhinaArt Director · AI Artist

Kirill TsytkinStoryteller · Creative Technologist

FAQ

What is LARP?

Live action role-play. Everyone in the room takes part and builds the story together. There are no actors and no spectators.

Do I need experience?

No. A short workshop at the start eases you into your character and the rules of the evening.

How long does it last?

Most performances run 1.5 to 2 hours. Trainings for teams run from 4 hours to 2 days.

How many people can take part?

It depends on the performance. Team trainings run for 2 to 100 participants.

What should I expect?

A set that puts you inside the story, a few game mechanics, facilitators who guide without directing, and technology where the story needs it. You create a character, meet the others, and find out things about them and yourself that nobody planned.

Can I take photos?

We photograph every performance and share the photos with you afterwards. Phones stay away during the performance so nobody has to step out of the story.

Which languages?

English and French.

Want to create your own LARP?

larp.paris@gmail.com @larp.paris 53 rue Monge, 75005 Paris

Qualia

We come to know things in different ways. But what can only be known by experiencing?

QUALIA is an immersive and participative performance in which the audience is invited to explore the feeling of doing. Each participant delves into a specifically designed space, questioning the importance of first-hand experiences while applying different ways of communication.

A group of strangers tries to share what they perceive, in words and without them, and discovers how far one mind can reach another. Someone else in the room is trying too.

Created and PremieredResidency at La Générale, Paris (2021)

Presented5th Tel Aviv International Theatre Festival (2023)

The octagonal table before the players arrive

Two bare light bulbs hanging in the dark

A line of blue lights running across the floor

A group around a table under a warm lamp

NextEncircling

Encircling

Imagine losing your memory. Who would you ask for the truth and what would they tell you about yourself?

ENCIRCLING is a collective improvisation performance in which the audience is invited to explore identity through the eyes of others. Each participant starts with no memory of who they are and reconstructs their character through fragments of information shared by the people around them.

Over two hours, the audience becomes the writers, directors and actors of a story unfolding in real time. As they create it together, the line between discovering a character and inventing one begins to blur.

CreatedLARP.Moscow Lab (2016)

PremieredThe Day of Norway Festival, Moscow (2017)

PresentedMoscow · Paris · Berlin

RecognitionTop-8 theatrical performances without actors in Russia (Afisha magazine)

A participant kneels in the middle of a scene

Participants standing on a stage in blue light

The whole circle seen from the back of the hall

NextFailure

Failure

Everyone keeps one failure they never talk about. An old house in Belleville is collecting them.

FAILURE is a participatory theatre play in which the audience is invited to explore our relationship with a subject we rarely talk about. Each person creates a character and enters the living room of an old theatre, once inhabited by a woman who spent her life collecting stories of failure from around the world.

Through images, cards, words and collective storytelling, the audience uncovers what went wrong in their characters’ lives and how it shaped them. As the stories unfold, they explore whether naming what went wrong can become the first step towards something else.

CreatedIESA Arts & Culture, Paris (2018)

Premiered and PresentedThéâtre Les Enfants Terribles, Belleville, Paris (2019)

Participants in the living room of the house

A participant reading her role by the cabinet

Participants sitting on the floor, talking

A player seen through a mirror frame on a red wall

The living room set before the audience arrives

One of the illustrated cards used in the play

NextInbox

Inbox

What if your whole life took just one evening? What message would you leave?

INBOX is an open-air, non-stop 8-hour LARP in which a new group enters the space every 15 minutes. The unprepared public is invited to experience an entire lifetime in one hour. Each participant creates a character before they are born and enters a world that greets them with a letter.

From childhood and youth to friendship, love and growing old together, the story carries each character through the different stages of human existence. Along the way, participants explore what remains after we are gone, ending their journey by writing a letter that will become the beginning of someone else.

CreatedLARP.Moscow Lab (2016)

Premiered and PresentedStay Hungry Festival (2016)

The entrance with the session times board

NextQualia