Mo Holkar
Mo Holkar has been running and playing larps and freeforms (uk- and other) since the mid-80s.
He also runs Freeform Games LLP with Steve Hatherley, bringing uk-freeform-style games to the general public.
Mo has a blog about larps and other games-related stuff at Games! – All sorts of different ones. He's written various articles:
- The Blue Ribbon Collective, on nordiclarp.org, March 2017
- High on Larp: Alcohol at Larp Events, on nordiclarp.org, March 2017
- History, Herstory, and Theirstory: Representation of Gender and Class in Larps with a Historical Setting, in the 2017 Knutepunkt companion book and also on nordiclarp.org, February 2017
- What Does it Mean When Sex is Sexy?, with Monica Hjort Traxl, on nordiclarp.org, February 2017
- Real Men – Defining Gender Identities, with Kevin Burns, in the 2016 Nordic Larp Yearbook and also on nordiclarp.org, November 2016
- Walking in the Darkness: handling race in Lovecraftesque, in Lovecraftesque
- Non-nominated Fastaval Scenarios, on the Plan B blog, April 2016
- Larp and Prejudice: Expressing, Erasing, Exploring, and the Fun Tax, in the 2016 Solmukohta companion book
- Workshop Practice, in Practice, in the 2015 Knudepunkt companion book and also on nordiclarp.org, April 2016
- Opening the Chamber of Secrets – an introduction to chamber larp, on larping.org, May 2015
- What's the big deal about Nordic larp?, on larping.org, October 2014
- Nordic-style larp in the UK, on nordiclarp.org, July 2014
- Pillage the Vikings!, with Ole Peder Giæver, on nordiclarp.org, July 2014
- Orientalism and exoticism, on the Ginger Goat blog, May 2014
Mo's freeforms / chamber larps
Mo has written the following freeforms and larps by himself:
- Experimental Findings
- Life Lessons
- Delta Sector Helter Skelter (a playset for Picking up the Pieces)
- The Best Medicine
- 'Heroes' (for Fastaval 2016)
- Keep It in the Family
- The Tongues of Our Ancestors (for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2015)
- How Was it for You?
- Women on the Verge… / These Are the Days of Our Lives
- Café Incognito (for the Golden Cobra Challenge 2014)
- A Will to Murder (also in German as Letzte Wille Mord)
- The Monte Carlo Entanglement (a playset for Picking up the Pieces)
- A Dead Man's Chest (also in German as Des Toten Kerls Kiste)
- Curse of the Pharaoh (also in German as Der Fluch des Pharao)
and has co-written these ones with various other people:
- 21 Moments (with Steven Doyle, Jenny Dunn, Ruth Trenery-Leach, Graham Walmsley, and Laura Wood)
- The Drinklings (with Anna-Karin Linder, for A Week in Sweden 2018)
- On Location (with Kate Bennett, Karolina Sołtys, and Laura Wood)
- Life of a House (with Will Osmond and Ruth Trenery-Leach)
- It's Just a Stage (with Karolina Sołtys)
- The Life of Mermaids (with Olga Rudak, Mira Suovanen, and Jouni Karppinen)
- The Baby Club (with Jamie Harper and David Owen)
- Freakshow (with Traci Whitehead)
- Real Men (with Kevin Burns)
- Queen of Denial (with Nickey Barnard)
- Mars Attracts (with Graham Arnold, Kath Banks, Graham Charles, and Steve Hatherley).
- None but the Brave (with Traci Whitehead).
- Preserving the Village (with Graham Arnold, Andrea Civiera, Sue Lee, Michele Minett, and Alison Rider-Hill).
- The Outsiders (with Cat Tobin).
- What Happened in Blackpool, and the Picking up the Pieces system for which it was the first playset (with Heidi Kaye, Alli Mawhinney, Cat Tobin, and Traci Whitehead).
- Reading between the Lines (with Cat Tobin).
- Small Town Folks (with Tracy Bose, Rob Harris, Tony Mitton, Mike Snowden, and Cat Tobin)
- The Accused (with Graham Arnold, Tracy Bose, Sue Lee, and Cat Tobin)
- Off the Rails (with Tracy Bose)
- Zeus's Zoo (with Andy Brown, Mike Grace, and Alex Helm)
- Superbia (with Dennis Douglas)
and co-wrote these, back in the day, as part of the Epic Experience; with various combinations of Melanie Dymond Harper, Wendy Prosser, Emma O'Connell and Graham Harper:
- Air Today, Gone Tomorrow?
- All Rite on the Night
- Almost Crazy
- B.A.D. Books
- Bassethwaite 5: After the Fall
- Bassethwaite 5: Intimations of Danger
- Bring on the Bellywobblies
- Cereal Killers
- Come Die With Me
- Countdown to Doom
- Court in the Act
- Enigma Variations
- Fall of Kar-Dernath
- The Fall of the House of Basset
- Family Values
- From Bassethwaite with Love
- Ghosthunters
- Human Racing
- I'd Like To Thank…
- In Stitches
- Interr'd with Their Bones
- Irons in the Fire
- Let Nothing You Display
- Loft Treasures
- Over the Edge
- Pearls before Swine
- Poles Apart
- The Quest for El Dorito
- Ship of Fools
- The Show Must Go On
- Veni, Vidi, Bassethwaite
- Winter of Discontent
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