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The Second Signature
Wilhelminakade 214, third floor, Rotterdam.
- ~122 min (estimated)
- 26887 words
- 84 scenes
- 13 branch points
- 4 endings
32 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · art review pending · listing metadata: listing.json · counts: authored
About
Notariaat Kroon & De Wit keeps a waiting room with four chairs, a ficus that has been in the pot since 1994, and a wall clock that runs nineteen seconds fast. Ilse Kroon, 44, has been a notary public since 6 September 2013, and every instrument that leaves this office leaves with two signatures on it: the applicant's, and hers, over a seal with a quill in it. That is the whole of the job. A notary public does not decide who a person is. A notary public writes down that somebody, in a room, decided. On the morning of Tuesday 2 June she is asked to execute an `akte` for a replacement identity document. The man at the table says he is Bart Kroon, her husband, and Bart Kroon is one thousand four hundred kilometres away, under way to Hull on a twenty-one-day rotation with DFDS. He carries a photograph. She has seen the man in that photograph once, in her own waiting room, on 14 May 2019, when
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- A notarial act that is wrong in one field and cannot be withdrawn, corrected, or annotated by anybody afterwards
- A widow who is owed money and is not paid, in every route
- A boy of sixteen who wrote his name at the top of a form; he is not a character, is not present, and is not sexualised
- A fifteen-year deception inside a marriage, about a rope and a scar rather than about a person
- A woman's account of her own professional failure read out on a record and against her will
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
Cast
- I Ilse Kroon Notary public of thirteen years and the signature under the seal on the act no portrait yet
- B Bart Kroon Chief bosun on the short-sea Hull route and the man who telephoned the office on 29 May no portrait yet
- H Hanneke De Wit Notary public of twenty-nine years, partner since 2007, and the hand that keeps the register no portrait yet
- W Wim Verbeek The man in the chamber on the morning of 2 June, and the brother of the man who died in 2011 no portrait yet
- M Marianne Verbeek The widow who telephoned at 16:10, and the person the claim was for no portrait yet