Hide&Seek Festival : Werewolf Night

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Werewolf Night

7:00pm to 10:00pm, Friday 27th June 2008
Royal Festival Hall, the Southbank Centre
Tags: talking listening

In a quiet village in the middle of the Clore Ballroom floor, night has fallen. The villagers rest. Outside, buses and the Thames roll past, and mice scuttle through the cornfields. There's a noise: the honk of a taxi's horn? Or the howl of something more sinister?

Some of the villagers have a secret: they're werewolves, and at night they open their eyes and choose one of the innocent to kill. Not until morning will the villagers open their eyes (those who still can) and find out who has lived; but then it's time for them to take their revenge, bringing out the pitchforks and burning torches to slay one of their suspects.

People intending to play this game: Candice Chiew, Fausto Fonseca, Tom Parker, Ana Paula, thorntocon, Silke, Stephen Taylor, Simon Lavis, Nadaav, Marc M, Harry, j, Benoon, Robbly, toby barnes, maybealexislost, Joe Public, Neillie, Russ Sese, Simon Katan, treeturtle, Ed, Elena, Bicameralman, Zack, Gwyn Morfey, Lyn Gibbins, queenie, Mink, steve m, Harriet, Kevin Jarvis, Peter Trunce, naomi billingham, Chris Davis, Caroline Gardiner, Tanya, Charlotte P Smith, Dave Rinaldi, sheilaellen, Cristiano Betta, Glyn Wintle, Marianne, Vincenzo Di Maria, Naomi Alderman, Fiona Gerrans, Mel Adey, Supapim, Kate Adams, Rainycat, George, Gijs Determeijer, Young Jane, Colette Gordon, Bonnie Shaw, Tim Stephens, wildwoman, adam mcgreggor, David Dunhill, Dominic Kelly, lou, cubicgarden, Melinda Seckington, becky, James Cox, silvasurfa, Rowan, Nothing Nothin, Bring Stuff, kellan dalton, Annette, Cahoots, Tara, loriland, Katie Abbott, Stephen Abbott, Hannah Rowlands, Jane McGonigal, andrea, Nod Miller, ellie, Cara, Ewan, Shabby-Joe Johnson, Clare Rowley, Zara Hayes, Opi, Rachel Millward, Paul Roberts, Russell_k, claire teasdale, Jennifer O'Shea, Stephanie, laurenelise, Laurence, Bruno, Soan, Victoria Willis, Tani Gaan, Melanie, Hannah White, lavern williams, Rebecca Swaine, Julian McCrea, LENA BREZOVSEK, M, Raymond Jenkin, nickplays, Adam May, Tobin Taylor, Linor Flatto, Gaby, wole, fay hanrahan, Sara Gelfgren, Patrick, Edward Kinella-perks, carina, libby, Ann Witbrock, Ben, Olga Dukova, Hannah Dixon, Danielle Leacy, Olivia Anderson, Maria Ancupova, Aleksandrs Ecins, Sara, Tweetiti, Anna Francescutti, Rocky Yip and Joss.

Werewolf was invented in the 1980s by Dimma Davidoff at Moscow State University, as "Mafia". It can be given any number of themes (werewolves and villagers, spies and double-agents, humans and cylons) and any number of extra characters (healers, vigilantes, seers, traitors, bodyguards), but the core remains the same: a small, secretive team tries to destroy a larger, suspicious, intermittently self-destructive group.