The Stork Clinic
A Nordic chamber larp about hope, anxiety, judgment, and fertility
Practical
Stork Clinic is a nontransparent Nordic larp for 8 players depicting wannabe parents undergoing fertility treatment and their fertility doctor, led by a game master (GM) playing an NPC (Nurse Meyer). The GM keeps time and brings patients in to their private appointments with the doctor. The game lasts around 2.5 hours including workshops and preparation and plays largely in the waiting room, where all patients interact with one another, and partly in the doctor’s office.
The game is about hope, anxiety, and judgment (internalized and of others) more than parenthood itself.