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The Four Hundred Cover
Standing is a restaurant in a converted 1908 cold store on Finkle Street in Kingston upon Hull.
- ~177 min (estimated)
- 38976 words
- 78 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
26 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
It seats four hundred — a hundred and sixty-eight on the ground floor, a hundred and seventy-six on the first, fifty-six at the bar in the cellar — and Ines Cavalcante, 43, has cooked at the pass of it for eleven years, the last seven of them as head chef. Every night she writes the book by hand: what came in, what went out, what each plate cost in flesh and gas and time. She is the most trusted person in the building and the only one who has never opened her own bank statement. For six years her sous chef, Tam Arnott, 40, has been paying a third of her rent. A standing order for £340 leaves an account at Corvid Mutual that Ines opened in 2011 for a bursary payout and has never logged into since. The payee is her letting agent. The reference is her flat. The collection comes out on the third of the month, seventy-two times, and it lands in the middle of a statement that Ines has scrolled
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- A six-year financial arrangement entered into without consent and sustained by omission
- A partnership and a reputation withdrawn for something the protagonist said out loud
- A career ending and a colleague's resignation-threat described in an office
- A public reading of a private bank line in front of twenty-nine staff
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that carries the damage rather than preventing it
Cast
- I Ines Cavalcante Head chef of Standing since January 2018, at the pass, and the only person who writes the green book no portrait yet
- T Tam Arnott Sous chef, four years beside her at the pass and nine years in the building no portrait yet
- K Keziah Nkemdi Restaurant manager. Keeps the book of covers, the reservations, the rota, and the only honest record of who is owed what no portrait yet
- R Ruaridh Grieve Proprietor of Standing for nine years and thirty-one years in the trade no portrait yet
- D Dov Bar-Lev Group operations director. Signs the wage bill for five sites and has to close the quarter before the sale no portrait yet
- B Bela Ferreira Chef de partie, four years in the kitchen, Ines's since 2023 no portrait yet
- O Odean Whitlock The porter. In the building from three o'clock, nine years no portrait yet
- M Marguerite Pilley Letting agent at Rowanbrae Lettings, 64 Albert Street. Took the payment every month for six years and asked nothing after the third time no portrait yet