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The Costume Book
The Ashgrove Rep keeps one ledger.
- ~128 min (estimated)
- 28355 words
- 35 scenes
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- Five ordinary days, Monday 12 to Saturday 17 October 2026, at the Ashgrove Rep in a converted 1897 drill hall.
19 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
The Ashgrove Rep is a 208-seat company on a weekly production with three paid wardrobe staff. Its costume book is a single A3 ledger begun in 1961: a page per garment, eight ruled columns, and a margin carrying sixty-five years of repairs, night notes, hem measurements and the initials of whoever did them. In the week a 1923 revival opens and a new show opens in the round, the department must decide what the crew book is, whether a repair carries a name or a role, whether a fifteen-year-old arrangement with safety pins and dressmaker's tape gets written down, what six hundred words in the printed programme should say, and whether the Book is next season a working document, an archive, two books, or a shared round. Both shows open as scheduled. Nothing breaks, nobody is harmed, and no garment leaves the building.
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- workplace disagreement about credit, authorship and who may be named
- an undisclosed alteration to a historic garment maintained for fifteen years
- a permanent alteration to a 1922 garment proposed and priced against a small consumables budget
- a volume of institutional memory that is partly illegible and partly unattributed
- mild workplace friction between a head of department, a production manager and a supervisor
Cast
- M Marguerite Okonjo-Stannard no portrait yet
- T Teodor Vance no portrait yet
- B Bea Sargent no portrait yet
- I Ivo Prenk no portrait yet
- A Aurelio Sanmiguel no portrait yet
- P Perrin Ashby no portrait yet
- H Halina Draganova no portrait yet
- O Otto Lembke no portrait yet
- A Ava Ferreira no portrait yet