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Two Metres of Bare Board
Under the corps of the Thistlewire, eight salaried understudies sit on two metres of bare board in the dark and go on nightly in the places of the advertised leads, whose names are gilt on a board in Ardle Street and absent from the building.
- ~158 min (estimated)
- 34959 words
- 61 scenes
- 13 branch points (script estimate)
- 6 endings (script estimate)
30 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
When the body holding the Position of the Wife stops going on for one Thursday, the season's only lawful exit is opened in front of four hundred and twelve people, and every adult in the building has to decide whether one person's no is a gift or a catastrophe. Nobody is a villain. The antagonist is a quarter-bound book in teal cloth, and it is not lying. Verrow is a cold, wet, industrial river city: grey stone, tarred timber, low cloud that never breaks from October to April, and gaslight that makes every wet pavement the colour of weak tea. The Thistlewire stands on Ardle Street, its brick front black with soot, its doors hung with a board of gilt lettering that names performers who are not inside. Four hundred and twelve red velvet seats, worn pale at the front row. A plaster ceiling the colour of tea. Two metres of bare board in the wings, eight hooks above it, a hot pipe running und
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Cast
- A Ada Revel no portrait yet
- C Corvin Ashby no portrait yet
- H Hester Vaile no portrait yet
- I Ilse Karrow no portrait yet
- B Bram Sillet no portrait yet
- T Tobias Rill no portrait yet
- J Joss Arkwright no portrait yet
- P Peregrine Slee no portrait yet