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The Back Office Inventory
The Marram is a forty-one-room hotel on Marine Parade in Brinmouth, a coast road town on the north coast where the population went from 4,180 in 2015 to 2,940 in 2024 and the season has stopped being a season.
- ~167 min (estimated)
- 36790 words
- 90 scenes
- 12 branch points
- 5 endings
24 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Nineteen of the rooms face the sea. The other twenty-two look at forty-one numbered bays of tarmac. Ines Vahl, 38, runs the back office: the reservations ledger, the card machine, the guest book her night porter keeps, the correspondence file, and the room-by-room inventory that a closing sale requires. She has not been paid since 2020, because the company could not afford the management fee, and she has never once treated that as a fact worth saying out loud. In February a letter arrives from Sennen Vail, 44, offering £2,600,000 for the freehold. Sennen owns The Gannet, sixty-two rooms, nine miles up the coast at Ardmoor, and he did well in a bad decade. He is the only buyer who will take the Marram, and under the terms of the original purchase the valuation is set by the purchaser, so his number is the number. He was the duty manager of the Brinmouth Hostel when it was a twelve-room ho
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- Sale and loss of an inherited business
- A marriage of nine years ending over money that is not coming back
- An adult affair, written in full, between two adults who agreed what they want and what stops it out loud
- A man being right about half of what he says in a room with a sea view
- Eleven people told about their jobs by somebody else
- A public accusation in a small professional trade
- A woman describing her own failure accurately to the man it concerns
- A building converted to flats and a name taken off a sea front
Cast
- I Ines Vahl Hotel manager and viewpoint character; owns and runs the back office of the Marram no portrait yet
- T Tomas Rieve Ines's husband, owner-manager of the Marram, and the reason it was ever bought no portrait yet
- S Sennen Vail Owner of The Gannet, sole buyer of the Marram, and the setter of the valuation no portrait yet
- B Blanche Ottery Night porter of eleven years, cleaner at the hostel in 2009, and the only living witness no portrait yet
- D Dez Arkwright Head chef, thirty-four covers, and the person who can prove the restaurant loses money when the rooms are full no portrait yet
- C Ceri O'Hagan Bookings and group rates, holder of the block correspondence, and builder of the 41-bed system no portrait yet