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The Night Train Seat
On the Coastal Night, an overnight sleeper from Port Arvain to Cresset Bay, a dining-car pianist who plays only while the doors are open and a night conductor newly assigned to the run spend eleven hours finding out whether they can be in the same carriage without either of them pretending.
- ~110 min (estimated)
- 24262 words
- 42 scenes
- 7 branch points
- 5 endings
- One overnight service, Port Arvain 21:40 to Cresset Bay 08:55, in the fictional Cavandel State Railways network.
26 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Sabina Farro has played the Coastal Night dining-car piano during boarding for twenty-six years and never after the doors close. Emil Vasary, newly assigned to the night run, once played bassoon in a family quintet and has not made music since it replaced him with a poster. Across eleven hours, they navigate a working train, a private ninety-second composition called The Sill, the difference between a rule and its purpose, and what a life on the railway can make room for. Seven consequential decisions shape what Emil says, what he keeps private, who gets invited into the music, and whether he and Sabina ask for a future together. Every ending is an adult choice with a complete life beyond this train.
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- a character has not played music for eleven years after leaving an ensemble
- a pianist works with stiffness in a thumb joint
- adult characters discuss work, money and a possible change in career
Cast
- S Sabina Farro no portrait yet
- E Emil Vasary no portrait yet
- I Ines Delacroix no portrait yet
- T Toby Rennie no portrait yet
- R Ruaridh MacAllister no portrait yet
- M Marijke Vandersteen no portrait yet