by Nynne Søs Rasmussen
Four young horse-interested women spend their time at a riding center where a male riding instructor abuses them sexually. An interview scenario about grooming and the consequences of coming forward with your story.
Presentation
Players: 4
Gamemasters: 1
Total runtime: 4 hours
Language: Danish and English
Age limit: 18+
Material to be read: 2 pages
We Ride Together is a social realist drama scenario about grooming and sexual abuse in Danish equestrian sport in the 1990s. The characters are four young horse-interested women who spend their time at the Rosenvang Equestrian Centre, which is run by a male riding instructor who sexually assaults them. All the characters must choose whether they want to support reporting the riding instructor to the police, with the social and personal consequences this entails. The abuse is not described in explicit details in the scenario.
The focus of the scenario is to empathize with the womens' situation. The riding instructor in the scenario will remain unnamed and will only be referred to as "he". It's not his story. It's the young womens’.
All scenes are played as an interview with the gamemaster, who asks questions to the characters.
Content warnings: Sexual abuse, sexual abuse against teenagers, grooming
- Equestrian sport
- Grooming
- 1990s
Players: 4
Gamemasters: 1
Total runtime: 4 hours
Language: Danish and English
Age limit: 18+
Material to be read: 2 pages
Player types:
You want to immerse yourself in a role that is pressured by social structures and explore how it feels to be trapped in a harrowing situation. You like storytelling and think it is an exciting obstruction that all scenes are played as an interview.
Gamemaster type:
You can ask the players the right questions, which drives the story forward and exposes the characters' inner lives and relationships based on a series of set and optional interview scenes. You are good at improvising and can incorporate the player’s input into the story.
