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The Atlas With The Missing Streets
The Common Atlas of Calder lists 4,912 streets.
- ~107 min (estimated)
- 23680 words
- 28 scenes
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- Monday 1 to Friday 5 June 2026; an atlas reading room above a central library, a municipal survey office, a retail stree
27 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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Calder has an atlas that lists 4,912 streets. There are 5,043. A street gets onto the atlas the way a sentence gets agreed in a room: somebody reads it out loud, in the street, in daylight, to three people who live there, and nobody names a wrongness in it. Not a vote. A veto. Merrivale Street has been on the atlas since 1889 and now has four wrongnesses in it and thirty-one residents who have said one out loud, and it is starting to come off. Nothing is dangerous and nothing is taken away. The corner shop still opens at seven and a street that has come off the atlas still stands there in the rain being a street. What leaves is the sentence: the entry is one line long and it is the only line anybody has ever agreed on, and when it stops resolving the cross-references stop with it, so the index card, the concordance, the printed plate, the search box and the nine other entries that begin at Merrivale all point at nothing, a district guide printed in 1996 loses the words it borrowed, and a shopfront that took its wording off the entry leaves a space where a word was. Over five ordinary days in June 2026 nine adults who agree about nothing weigh four defensible answers, alongside a row of nine terraces that has been off the atlas since 1912, a footway width that is wrong in a description by half a metre, a rule about the language an entry may be written in, and a woman with a scrapbook of four thousand one hundred photographs who can date her street to within a year and cannot say what it is. No crime, no disaster, no deadline.
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- two streets in Calder have been removed from the register in the last six years, one of them discussed by name
- a market founder who died in 2021, referred to only as a fact about a market and never depicted
- the last irreversible act in the story is administrative: a clerk closing a five-year-old register entry on a date
- a language rule that decides which names can be carried into an official description and which cannot
Cast
- N Nadia Ferreira-Lange no portrait yet
- O Owen Tranter no portrait yet
- M Mira Sandoval-Rees no portrait yet
- B Berhan Amanuel no portrait yet
- J Josephine Oyelaran no portrait yet
- P Petra Aldiss no portrait yet
- W Winnie Abara no portrait yet
- A Aurel Nyberg no portrait yet
- R Rosalind Achebe no portrait yet