Kolax, The Flatterer

A freeform game for 3+ players, taking 2 hours

Kolax, or The Flatterer, is a play written circa 300 B.C. by the playwright Menander (c.342-c.290BC). The play was mostly lost though fragments remain. What you hold in your hands is an attempt to rebuild that lost play through play. We will put on an anarchic and highly questionable performance of Kolax by reading the extant remnants and then improvising our way through the missing portions. Players will constantly switch characters, enter and leave the stage, posture with giant masks, and switch between reading, improv, and structured word games.

The script for this game is cobbled together out of the remaining play fragments (some buried in other plays that quoted Kolax) held together with a generous dollop of creative license taken by me, the creator of this game. This is not a scholarly document--it is not even well researched. Instead, it’s a glorious slapdash mess mushed together out of the hard labor of centuries of academics to whom I deeply apologize. 

It is, mind you, a game.  It does game things in game ways.  So keep that in mind.

Officially released 11/01/2021