I have been thinking about this sentence and apparently it is ambiguous in many aspects. Here is how I suggest it could be rephrased.
- She invited her friends to a place where she herself is not going to show up at.
- She invited her friends to a place where she has the chance to pretend that she is somebody else.
Please let know what you think. Also, it would be helpful to ask the author of that sentence what they had in mind when they wrote it.