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The Previous Sheet
One driving test, forty minutes, a bald tyre, and a remark in pencil that says the fault is not where the cross is.
- ~52 min
- 18369 words
- 39 scenes
- 6 branch points
- 7 endings
- Contemporary, one Saturday in early November, from six forty-four to about eight.
24 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Priya Sarraf, thirty-four, stands in the same place on the same road every morning in a tabard with a lollipop, and has not held a valid driving licence since the eleventh of June. Her second attempt is in an eleven-year-old estate with a clutch on the way out, in front of an examiner who has conducted one thousand one hundred and four tests. The system is the mark sheet: one serious fault ends it, four minor faults end it, a driving observation does not, and the remarks box is the only place in the whole of it where a person may be described rather than measured. Six of the seven endings are reachable on a first attempt. The seventh is not, and the reason is not a puzzle: on a first test there is nothing in the file for anyone to read out, so the examiner has nothing to promise, so there is nothing to ask for. Sit it again and the option is there. What you took on the first morning is still in the box, and the coda at the end of every reading prints your own record back to you.
Content notice3 topics · tap to review
- Adults only. Everyone named is 26 or older. No minor appears in any role, memory, photograph, joke, or future reference.
- Institutional themes: what a record is for, who reads it, and the difference between a measurement and a description.
- No sexual content, no violence, no substance use, no flashing light, no strobe, no image, no music and no voice.
Cast
- P Priya Sarraf no portrait yet
- A Anwen Cathcart no portrait yet
- D Dermot Slattery no portrait yet
- E Eamon Rathod no portrait yet
- N Nadia Fenwick no portrait yet