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The Costume Book
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The Ashgrove Rep keeps one ledger.
- ~128 min
- 28355 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 19 plays
backstage workplace dramaensemble slice of lifetextile craft dramaFive ordinary days, Monday 12 to Saturday 17 October 2026, at the Ashgrove Rep in a converted 1897 drill hall.
Content notice (5)
- 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
· play time estimated from word count
The Long Table at Bay Six
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Bay Six is a cooperative shared kitchen on the second floor of a warehouse conversion on Fourlands Road, and since 1994 it has cooked a public supper on Saturdays for eighty-four covers, while seven members cook a staff meal on Thursdays for themselves alone.
- ~110 min
- 24221 words
- 10 branch points
- 4 endings
- 21 plays
kitchen workplace comedycooperative and ensemble dramaauthorship, credit and hospitalityMonday 12 to Saturday 17 October 2026 at Bay Six, Fourlands Road, with a Sunday coda on the 18th.
Content notice (5)
- workplace argument about credit, authorship and hospitality
- a gap in a 1974 crew record, described as a gap and nothing more
- a living older woman who may not wish to be asked about a rule she wrote
- a family account of a dal that the family does not believe
- a stranger correcting a printed credit at a table during service
· play time estimated from word count
The Greenhouse of Unnamed Things
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Merridale Botanical Garden inherited forty-one plants in the warm propagation bay whose accession labels were removed during a 2021 staging rebuild and were never put back; the labels were found in October 2026 in a biscuit tin at the back of a tea chest in the records room, and they are now fifty-e
- ~93 min
- 20638 words
- 6 branch points
- 4 endings
- 22 plays
horticultural workplace comedyensemble slice of lifearchival craft dramaFour ordinary days in October 2026 at Merridale Botanical Garden.
Content notice (3)
- archival loss and incomplete collection records
- a deceased donor mentioned in historical context
- workplace disagreement about stewardship and attribution
· play time estimated from word count
The Last Ordinary Sound
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Seven sound artists spend one ordinary week in Verrow Market Hall recording the market so that a community installation can be built out of the week, and find that the hall has been given to them by two unrelated gifts: twenty-four reels of quarter-inch tape recorded in March 1974 by a regional broa
- ~99 min
- 21974 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 22 plays
sound-art ensemble dramaaudio engineering workplace storyethics of archival recording8–12 June 2026, Verrow Market Hall, with a second recording week in June 2027.
Content notice (3)
- recorded voice of a person who was a child in 1974
- consent and refusal in archival/community recording
- professional disagreement about names and attribution
· play time estimated from word count
The Atlas With The Missing Streets
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The Common Atlas of Calder lists 4,912 streets.
- ~107 min
- 23680 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 28 plays
adult craft ensemblelow-stakes speculativeliterary fictionchoice drivenMonday 1 to Friday 5 June 2026; an atlas reading room above a central library, a municipal survey office, a retail stree
Content notice (4)
- 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
· play time estimated from word count
The Quiet Interval
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A municipal clock shop finds that the span clock above Aldgate Road Station's booking hall reads four minutes fast, and that it is the only dial in the borough that disagrees with the master clock on Cleaver Street.
- ~71 min
- 15780 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 32 plays
adult craft ensembleslice of liferestoration ethicschoice drivenMonday 15 to Thursday 18 June 2026; a municipal clock workshop and sub-basement master clock cell on Cleaver Street, a r
Content notice (4)
- a public object wrong for twenty-eight years and discussed as a fault without any person being at fault
- a bereavement in 2011 of a named father, referred to only as ordinary and slow, never depicted
- a heritage dispute about whether a stopped 1889 movement should be restored, left or consolidated
- an informal and unpaid obligation to a municipal post abolished in 2001
· play time estimated from word count
The Map of Unborrowed Light
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At the Nettlefold Hill Community Observatory, a box of old photographic plates yields a hand-drawn star map from 1991—and an old disagreement about whether a faint mark is a celestial object, a photographic defect, or a claim that should never be made.
- ~84 min
- 18689 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 21 plays
community observatory ensemblearchival science mysteryquiet workplace dramaThursday 24 September 2026; Nettlefold Hill Community Observatory, Corraith.
Content notice (3)
- historical professional credit omission discussed
- uncertain interpretation of a photographic mark
- archival records and a decades-old grievance
· play time estimated from word count
The Wind We Leave Between Us
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On a fair Saturday at a small sailing club, Neri and Jules crew a familiar catamaran in an ordinary race after eleven months apart.
- ~60 min
- 13409 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 35 plays
ensemble character dramaslice of lifechoice drivenContemporary; one adult ensemble gathers for an ordinary scheduled event.
Content notice (2)
- relationship separation and discussion of trust
- ordinary competitive sailing with no accident
· play time estimated from word count
The Hint Is in the Hinge
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An adult comic design mystery about eight escape-room makers spending an ordinary Thursday testing their own canal-lock prototype.
- ~67 min
- 14815 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 33 plays
ensemble character dramaslice of lifechoice drivenContemporary; one adult ensemble gathers for an ordinary scheduled event.
Content notice (2)
- professional disagreement about authorship and credit
- accessibility and a missed design consideration
· play time estimated from word count
The Watchmaker's Ninth Second
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On a Wednesday morning in London, independent horologist Ilse Varga receives a box of nine pocket watches from Ruth Prendergast.
- ~44 min
- 9692 words
- 7 branch points
- 4 endings
- 19 plays
craft and workshop ensembleclosed material provenance mysteryfamily reconciliation without incidentWednesday 27 May to Sunday 7 June 2026; second floor, 41 Abbot Street, London E2, a church square off the Roman road, a
Content notice (3)
- a family estrangement since 2011, unmentioned throughout and only ever inferred
- a fall down stairs in 1971 that permanently damaged a watch, referred to as a permanent result rather than an injury
- a woman of eighty-four who has known a fact for fifty-seven years and has never been asked about it
· play time estimated from word count
222-a-menu-for-another-morning
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- ~44 min
- 9727 words
- 5 branch points (script estimate)
- 4 endings (script estimate)
- 9 plays
Content notice (0)
· play time estimated from word count
A Menu for Another Morning
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On an ordinary Wednesday at Fern and Fell, owner-chef Noa Vasilenko finds six hands on the recipe card for a sauce she has cooked for nine years.
- ~47 min
- 10365 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 20 plays
closed professional ensemble dramarestaurant workplace storyauthorship and credit dramaOne Wednesday in early autumn 2024, 15:02 to after midnight, Fern and Fell, a thirty-two-cover restaurant on a harbour c
Content notice (6)
- an owner contradicted in front of her own brigade by a section cook who has been in the building for twenty-two years
- a fish cooked past the point anybody wanted and found dry, in the four-minutes-a-side branch only
- a middle-aged woman learning that a dish she has cooked for nine years was largely authored by somebody else
- a recipe published in a national paper since 1994 under the name of a person who did not write it
- a journalist publicly correcting her own printed falsehood in front of customers, at a counter, at nine twenty
- the death of a named figure, Alma, eleven years before the story, present only as handwriting and one telephone call
· play time estimated from word count
The Orbit of Small Favors
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On a rotating research habitat in low Earth orbit, a maintenance lead has spent eleven years keeping a private written account of every favour anybody on the station has done for anybody else, and in nineteen days in which a supply capsule is nineteen days late, nine adults have to decide what a deb
- ~98 min
- 21738 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 34 plays
near-future orbital slice-of-liferelationship ensembleworkplace dramaNineteen days, Friday 2 March to Friday 23 March 2046, with an aftermath to 2061, Habitat Anselm, 418 km, low Earth orbi
Content notice (5)
- a delayed resupply and three weeks of improvisation
- prolonged low-gravity physiology, including rebreather work and blood pooling
- a woman leaving a job and a station she has held for eleven years
- an unresolved eleven-year debt at the centre of the story
- workplace procedure and duty rosters discussed in technical detail
· play time estimated from word count
The Museum of Unfinished Weather
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A small municipal museum in a river town keeps, in forty-one sealed glass cases, the weather that was forecast and never happened.
- ~92 min
- 20447 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 20 plays
speculative municipal workplace dramedybureaucratic closed mysteryadult ensemble on one night shiftOne night shift, Friday 2 to Saturday 3 October 2026, 22:00 to 06:12, the Museum of Unfinished Weather, 14 Weigh Lane, S
Content notice (6)
- historical workplace deaths after a withdrawn weather forecast
- approaching severe wind and a public warning decision
- route-dependent property damage and shelter opening
- one route describes an offstage transport worker’s broken thumb
- adult grief and a parent’s death
- professional guilt and disputed consent around an archival record
· play time estimated from word count
The Sea Room's Last Projection
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On the last night the Sea Rooms will ever open, its projectionist finds a splice in the tail of a 1961 print nobody on the island has ever seen, and eleven seconds of that print turn out to be a picture of her own auditorium, taken before the room had ever been a public cinema.
- ~89 min
- 19761 words
- 5 branch points
- 5 endings
- 18 plays
remote-island cinema ensemblegentle closed material mysterycontemporary workplace dramaOne night, Saturday 28 November 2026, 15:00 to 01:00, The Sea Rooms, Kinmarrow, island of Merrin
Content notice (4)
- closure of a community institution
- job and professional identity loss
- a film print that cannot be replaced
- death of a named historical figure, 1994, present only as a hand on a film and a name on an end title
· play time estimated from word count
The Locksmith of Silent Doors
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At 1:12 a. m. , locksmith Inez Vela is hired to recover a film reel from the shuttered Adagio before the demolition skip leaves at six.
- ~64 min
- 14107 words
- 13 branch points
- 5 endings
- 31 plays
magical-realist caperurban night adventureadult ensemble dramaOne foggy night in Tallow Street, from 1:12 to 6:07 a.m.
Content notice (2)
- permanent memory loss
- night demolition and a shuttered cinema
· play time estimated from word count
The Fifth End at Greyglass
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Friday night at the Greyglass Curling Club, in the north end of a hall whose ice plant comes out in November.
- ~26 min
- 5903 words
- 6 branch points
- 5 endings
- 19 plays
club curling ensemblesingle-night sports dramatactics, trust and a decision that cannot be taken backOne Friday night in November, 19:40 to about 23:30, the Greyglass Curling Club, north end of a hall above a farm-feed sh
Content notice (5)
- closure of a volunteer club and loss of a community institution
- a failed ice plant and a repair the club cannot fund
- transfer of the lease on the hall, signed during the final game
- an elderly member with a bad hip permitted one stone, on the rules
- a nineteen-year-old handed keys to premises he has no authority over
· play time estimated from word count
The Night Market of Second Helpings
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At Stall Nine, Marn Ostrey inherits seven recipe cards and a rule: each dish can return one ordinary memory, briefly and imperfectly.
- ~98 min
- 21671 words
- 5 branch points
- 3 endings
- 21 plays
cozy culinary fantasyepisodic food storymagical realismOne overnight shift at Barrow Row night market
Content notice (2)
- grief and memory loss
- food scarcity in a contained setting
· play time estimated from word count
The Applause Is a Debt
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The Ellersby Philharmonic Society has played the Bevin Hall every autumn for fifty-two years.
- ~80 min
- 17653 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 18 plays
contemporary backstage comedyamateur music ensemblefriendship dramaA Sunday rehearsal and Friday concert, November 2026, Ellersby
Content notice (2)
- bereavement
- financial uncertainty
· play time estimated from word count
The Unclaimed Room at Elysium
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On the first snow at a mountain spa, overnight caretaker Hilde Rauter finds a room that appears on no current plan.
- ~62 min
- 13798 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 32 plays
folkloric mysteryarchitectural puzzlequiet suspenseElysium mountain spa, 26–27 September 2026
Content notice (2)
- past fire discussed in historical records
- quiet supernatural ambiguity
· play time estimated from word count
The Last Bus to Saffron Bay
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A route is kept alive for thirty-nine years by people who are not paid to keep it alive, and the only way to pay the debt is to destroy it.
- ~120 min
- 19759 words
- 15 branch points
- 4 endings
- 50 plays
adult literary dramaroad storycontemporary comedycommunity ensembleinstitutional dramamultiple endingsContemporary, 2026
adults-onlymatureno-sexno-minorsno-violenceliteraryquietintergenerationalcoastalpublic-transitbureaucracydeadpanensemblefound-familymultiple-endings
Content notice (2)
- Adults only, 17+
- No sexual content, no violence, no illness, no death, no courtroom, no romance
The Weather Inspector of Room Nine
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Four nights, one sealed door, and a guest entry dated thirty-two years before the hotel it is filed in.
- ~99 min
- 24063 words
- 16 branch points
- 4 endings
- 42 plays
adult psychological science fictionunreliable narratorquiet suspensespace stationproceduralworkplace fictionmultiple endingsno romanceFuture, 2231
orbital hotelweatherrecords and formscertificationidentity and paperworkcontained mysteryfour endingsadults onlysilent novel
Content notice (10)
- an adult who is not certain of her own record
- a medical examination she would rather not have had
- discussion of a nine-minute episode of lost time
- a room that has been sealed for thirty-two years and has water in it
- a guest record dated thirty-two years before the hotel it is filed in, signed in the protagonist's own hand
- two explanations for that record, of which the story chooses neither
- a bath towel on a rail and a bed that is made, neither of which is explained
- a colleague who has been signing her name on a log for four years
- the protagonist losing her job
- the last line of the book is a sentence the narrator cannot finish, left unfinished on purpose
The Courier of Unfinished Songs
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Cobb keeps unfinished songs in tins, drawers, ledgers and the people who cannot get past bar four.
- ~78 min
- 17297 words
- 4 branch points
- 4 endings
- 20 plays
comic magical realismworkplace ensemblecontemporary fantasyAn intentionally unstated contemporary season in the fictional town of Cobb
Content notice (2)
- grief and estrangement
- a protagonist who does not speak aloud
· play time estimated from word count
The Map of Small Forgivenesses
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Nineteen settlements under a reservoir, one sheet to certify, and the officer of record's mother on the wrong side of the line in it.
- ~122 min
- 26806 words
- 5 branch points
- 4 endings
- 45 plays
contemporary dramaadult road storyinstitutional critiquearchive and memoryworking-adult fictionContemporary
adults onlycontemporaryroad storycartographyarchivesrestitutiondams and flooded valleysinstitutional critiquefamily memoryno romancetext onlyfour endings
Content notice (8)
- displacement and drowning of a valley by a dam, referenced and never depicted
- the deaths associated with an impoundment, carried as a number
- forced removal of four hundred and six households
- a family memory shown to be a memory of the wrong event
- institutional record-keeping as the mechanism of a fifty-five-year falsehood
- statutory limitation that closes a claim in 1976
- a public recusal and the loss of a professional position
- a compensation schedule that keeps a resident in place as a condition of payment
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