About the Show
Every Caverns and Creatures campaign needs three things: Knights! Wizards! And, political discourse? When a group of friends finish their long-running C&C campaign, an exploration of what comes next for their shared imaginary world turns into a heated debate over political differences and values that might prove more treacherous than any monster.
What do liberal infighting and role-playing games have in common? More than you’d think! Street Rat Media is making its Hollywood Fringe Festival debut with the world premiere of a new one-hour drama, “A Role Playing Game”. Writer-Director Trey Reinheimer’s freshman play follows a group of friends who finish their long-running “Caverns and Creatures” campaign, when a discussion about what happens next to their shared fantasy world turns into a heated political debate that reopens old wounds and tests the limits of their friendship.
Elle Ven (Julie Amuedo) is a pragmatist who wants to see the real world reflected in the fantasy created by the Game Master (Bek Suoma), who is balancing the desires of everyone else at the table–including the political idealist Sir Vice (Francis Kemper), peacekeeping rationalist Will Usion (Klenn Harrigan), and our ideological wildcard Kyle (Miles Bryant). With each character representing the different liberal archetypes dividing the party, the play reflects on the personal and political exhaustion in what it means to identify as a modern-day “progressive”.
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