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The Understudy
A repertory theatre with three months of funding left.
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- ~46 min (estimated)
- 10276 words
- 35 scenes
- 6 branch points (script estimate)
- 7 endings (script estimate)
119 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
Cover art · listing metadata: importer · counts: script-heuristic
About
Basim, 26, is the permanent second choice. When the lead breaks her wrist on a stairwell Basim was standing on, he gets the part and the suspicion. He can chase the role, the truth of what happened, or Dola, 33, the director who benefits either way and knows it. The best ending is not the one where he is proved innocent.
Content notice9 topics · tap to review
- Career sabotage and workplace coercion
- Physical injury (broken wrist; fall down stairs)
- Suspicion, isolation, and reputation collapse
- Grief over a failing art institution
- Ambiguous guilt and self-deception
- Emotional manipulation in a power imbalance (director/actor)
- Alcohol as coping
- Sex cuts away at the door (desire, aftermath, and consequence only)
- No instructional detail for causing harm
Cast
- B Basim Kader no portrait yet
- D Dola Varga no portrait yet
- M Mira Solano no portrait yet
- O Owen Pike no portrait yet
- L Len Chu no portrait yet
- R Ruth Hale no portrait yet
- P Priya no portrait yet
- T Tomas no portrait yet