SOMETHING ELSE MATTERS
- A LARP-PERFORMANCE AND MOCKUMENTARY
by Lena Bondeson & The Squat
SOMETHING ELSE MATTERS is both a larp-performance (live action role-play) and a screening of a mockumentary. By paraphrasing the 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, about the famous heavy metal band Metallica, The Squat - a role play group - role-plays Metallica while filming a documentary about their themselves and their own group dynamic struggles, on their journey of becoming a fake “band”;
Over two years they lived, larped and learned from the best none other than Metallica, how to, or how not, be a band.
︎ Where Metallica plays instruments - we play Metallica
(or as our producer Bob usually puts it: “Larp:ing is our music”)
︎ In the Squat we make angry paraphrases of Metallica without negative energy
(or as our bandtherapist Phil says it: “Get into The Zone - but don´t destroy”)
︎ Therapy is a missile - we aim to use it wisely
(or as Jason used to say before he left the band: “Therapy is lame - but conflicts are worse”)
︎︎︎ TRAILER ︎
︎︎︎ FULL MOCKUMENTARY “ALBUM” pw: Metallica ︎
PUBLICATION ON “Sloppy immersion”
- Dramaturgies of Immersion - Routledge (2025)
- Microdramaturgy - University of Surrey (2022)
The methodology “sloppy immersion” were developed and analyse as a case
study of Something Else Matters in Dr. Phil. Jonas Schnor’s Ph dissertation
and subsequent publications in performance philosophy and theory.
- Dramaturgies of Immersion - Routledge (2025)
- Microdramaturgy - University of Surrey (2022)
The methodology “sloppy immersion” were developed and analyse as a case
study of Something Else Matters in Dr. Phil. Jonas Schnor’s Ph dissertation
and subsequent publications in performance philosophy and theory.
PERFORMED
2021
THE DANISH NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PERFORMING ARTS, Teaterøen, Copenhagen
Thursday 20 of may at 20:00
Friday 21 of may at 20:00
Saturday 22 of may at 20:00
APPLIED THEATERSTUDIES PROGRAM + CUP, GIESSEN, Justus Liebig Universität, Germany
Screening without the surrounding larp: 1st of dec
LENA BRUUN BONDESON Gamemaster*, performer and bandmember (Drummer)
*Direction, producing, video editing, costume- & light design, scenography, transcript & translation
KAROLINE SEVERINSEN Performer and bandmember (Lead singer)
THOMAS DIEPEVEEN Performer and bandmember (Lead guitarist)
IDA KATINKA FRIDAN PEDERSEN Performer and bandmember (Dad)
THERESA LANGE OLESEN Performer and bandmember and -producer (Producer)
LARA OSTAN VEJRUP Performer and bandtherapist (Therapist)
JONAS SCHNOR Performancephilosopher and bandmanager (Manager)
ANNE LAYBOURN Performer and bandmember (Bassist)
DITTE BONDESON Psychologist and bandassistent (Runner)
Groupies and other credits
KRISTINE LAURITZEN (Performer and "Horse Whisperer"), ANDERS FIRING (Performer, psychologist and short-term bandmember), LINE WINTER OLESEN (Dramaturg, performer and former bandmember), EMILIE GREGERSEN (Dancer and former bandmember), JAN BASTIAN MARTHINSEN (photography), NADJDA MATTIOLI (photography), HANNES SIGFRIEDSSON (drums mockumentary), MORTEN BROK (drums mockumentary and short-term bandmember), INGUNN FJELLANG SÆTHER (light design support), SIMON AHLGREN (kaospilot), ROLF BONDESON and 'håndbold-drengene' and DASPA -The Danish National School of Performing Arts and especially to MIKKEL FLYVHOLM (mentor).
︎ Jan Bastian Marthinsen, Nadja Mattioli,
Aske Loewe (poster)