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Open Jump
One Thursday, from seven o'clock to eighteen minutes to eight, seven regulars and one newcomer bounce in a trampoline park on an industrial estate outside Coventry, in a room the owner also stands in.
- ~107 min (estimated)
- 23561 words
- 35 scenes
- 7 branch points
- 5 endings
- One Thursday evening, 19:00 to 19:42, on an estate off the A46 outside Coventry, in the fourth year of a weekly adult op
26 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
The player is the forty-two-minute session from 19:00 to 19:42. Seven regulars and one newcomer bounce in a trampoline park on an industrial estate outside Coventry, in a room the owner also stands in, and the narration is addressed to those forty-two minutes themselves: you have a body, a sound, a temperature and a finite attention, and you can only spend it on one adult at a time. The regulars are between twenty-seven and sixty-three and have been coming for years. This week a woman of thirty-four is standing on the mat for the first time, because somebody in the room bought her a ten-pound slot, and the owner has noticed that four empty Tuesday evenings a year are going unfilled and wants to put a coached adult beginners hour in them. The owner is reasonable, the money is not the point, and the conflict is entirely this: how does a shared play space stay playful when seven people arrive with seven different bodies, seven different levels of skill, seven different amounts of confidence and seven different reasons to be there at all. Nothing in this book can be won by breaking a safety rule; the thirty-second reset is posted and obeyed, one person per trampoline, and the foam pit exists because going further is not better. Six decisions in the order the room gives them up: where you open, whether the skill track belongs to whoever wants it, how a newcomer is met, what the thirty seconds of rest is for, whether advice is offered or asked for, and how the owner puts the schedule on the table, then one question that sets nothing and routes to the five endings: what the session asks for next week. Five endings, all complete: an uncoached session kept alive by one written opt-in line, a rotating adult-led skill share, a quiet low-sound first ten minutes, a two-track hire where nobody is ranked, and the one where nothing changes except that the rules of the hour are finally written down.
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- a room in which a top has appeared over four years that nobody chose
- a night baker whose work shift collides with the only hour he is free
- a physiotherapist being asked to give her professional judgement for free
- a man of sixty-three who is hard of hearing in a room that has got louder
- adults weighing whether to give up an hour a week to a coached beginners session
- a trampoline park, described in operational detail, and posted rules that are never broken
Cast
- T Tessa Roelofs regular, junior physiotherapist, Tilburg no portrait yet
- J Joss Hendry regular, freelance illustrator, lives in a van no portrait yet
- S Sash Mullane regular, bus driver, early turn out of the Coventry depot no portrait yet
- M Marcus Bell regular, night baker, works twenty-two hundred to six no portrait yet
- D Deepak Rao regular, insurance loss adjuster, the best jumper in the room no portrait yet
- B Birdie Nkemdirim regular, driving instructor no portrait yet
- W Walter Nkomo regular, retired draughtsman, seven years in, hard of hearing no portrait yet
- D Dara Whelan owner of the park no portrait yet
- I Ines Okafor the newcomer, first session no portrait yet