Part sport, part morality play, part slapstick comedy, The Fortitude Game finds that vengeful streak you like to keep hidden and lets you experience what your well meaning choices might mean when bound up in an intimate system of rules with those of self confessed pacifist or a self delusional masochist.
Swinging wildly between comedy and melodrama, Fortitude is your worst social nightmare played out as a live silent comedy sports show. Three Players compete to create a full character by collecting colour coded uniforms and antique sporting equipment. Each item carries a burden of forfeit and rank that subtly repositions the players in an endless cycle of absurd humiliations, grudges and unhealthy allegiances. Good sportsmanship and fine play are pushed to the limits, as the tragicomic nature of the game becomes a balancing act of moral and physical endurance.
Fortitude is a highly revealing hybrid artwork about self and social discovery that is as compellingly dubious to watch as it is to play.
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