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The Witness Was in the House
No. 3 Quarry Bank is a 1936 semi-detached house in Cranmere, Worcestershire, with a yard eleven metres deep and a brick wall just over a metre high.
- ~227 min (estimated)
- 49945 words
- 66 scenes
- 8 branch points
- 5 endings
30 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
There is a gate across the yard. The gate has had a hasp and a staple since the roof was retiled on 14 March, and it has had a padlock for eleven days less than that, because the locksmith who took the padlock away on 14 March was a twenty-nine-year-old named Bo Ferrers who now lives in the back bedroom, and neither of the two other people in the house ever chased the £45, and the work order was closed on the system as completed. Tam Ferndale is 34 and a scaffolder and she has a glass cut in her left hand that was re-dressed at the Alexandra this afternoon. On the night of Thursday 7 August, at 31 degrees, she is in the front bedroom of No. 3 with the sash window up and the fan broken, and she is the only other person in the house who is not downstairs. The third person in the house is Cal Ferreira, 52, a plasterer who has lived in the back room for two years, lent four thousand pounds t
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- A death by blunt force to the head, referred to, with no method depicted and no injury described
- A body in a house, a grey rug with a fringe, and a mortuary van on a Friday afternoon
- A police interview, a caution, a video recording, and the reader's own words read back to them
- Insomnia, a two-week rotation break, and a taped hand described on the page
- A woman destroys two letters written by a frightened man at 04:44 and cannot undo it
- Sexual content between two adults in a bed that becomes an exhibit, with consent stated aloud and either able to stop
- Bigotry as behaviour: an assumption about a nationality, a cash rent, and a man who cooks for other people
Cast
- T Tam Ferndale Scaffolder of nine years, viewpoint character in the second person, the only other person in the house on the night, and the person the 04:00 statement relies on being asleep no portrait yet
- B Bo Ferrers Locksmith, second occupier for two years, the man who took the padlock off the yard gate on 14 March and never went back, and the author of the four lines no portrait yet
- C Cal Ferreira Plasterer, third occupier since September 2023, the man on the kitchen floor, and the man who wrote two letters and told nobody no portrait yet
- D DS Marguerite Okonjo Investigating officer on the serious incident desk, who takes the 07:50 account, cautions the reader on the 13th, and reads the four lines aloud in a kitchen on the 14th no portrait yet
- D Dennis Hoyle The neighbour at number one, awake from one o'clock every night since 2011, and the only person alive who saw a shape in a yard at ten to two no portrait yet