Theatrical Gaming As School Project

I picked up a sharply marked down copy of Cthulhu Live yesterday at the local game store. I've never played any sort of Live Action Roleplaying game in my life, and I can't say the idea would normally appeal to me greatly, as I tend to be more of the 'miniatures and graph paper' style of gamer...but this book's got me thinking.

What about LARPing in the classroom? I know it sounds like a terrible idea at first, but hear me out. My school has a very robust drama program, and a fairly high percentage of our student body are actively involved ins some sort of drama class. Not a majority of the students mind you, but a very significant percentage. As I look through this book, the attention to crafting period props and costumes starts to look like something that could be made into class projects. If you made the development and 'performance' of a LARP game into a lengthy series of class projects, culminating in some sort of 'dinner theater with dice' for students and parents to buy tickets to, you might even be able to recoup the expenses involved in putting it all together.

It's not like LARPing hasn't been used in education ever before; there's even a Danish secondary school that is entirely built around the things. Although my Danish isn't so good, here's a page from their website where I think they may be running 'Horror on the Orient Express', a classic CoC scenario, as a LARP. But then again maybe it's just 'Murder on the Orient Express' as a LARP. Whatever it is, the hooded guys lead me to think cultists are involved in this version.

It's just as likely that I'll never do anything with this book, but it's always good to dream of new possibilities.