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Six Weeks Up Front
Seven hundred and eighty pounds in an Asda bag, and a name she never put on anything.
- ~125 min (estimated)
- 27519 words
- 55 scenes
- 9 branch points
- 5 endings
41 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
The flat above the wash house has been empty since her brother Stephen died and the council stopped paying for it. On the seventh of January a hospital porter called Micky Dunne walks in out of the sleet off the sea with an Asda bag holding seven hundred and eighty pounds in cash and asks whether the flat is still going. Micky works four nights on and four nights off at the University Hospital of Hartlepool, seven in the evening until seven in the morning, wheeling people who are having the worst week of their lives between a corridor and a scanner. His mother Rita died on the fourteenth of February and left a house on Cornwall Street that is still full of her things, a sister in Redcar who paid for the funeral and has not been paid back, and a set of keys he carries on a fob with a plastic dog on it. He does not want a tenancy. He wants somewhere with a door that nobody knocks on at thr
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- explicit consensual sex between adults, written in full, in three scenes
- a parent's death off the page and the paperwork of a funeral
- a mortgage in default in prospect and a care-home fee that cannot be met
- the sale of a family business and a father's residential care weighed against it
- grief, class shame, and a cash tenancy with no legal protection
Cast
- C Coleen Rafferty protagonist no portrait yet
- M Micky Dunne love interest no portrait yet
- N Nadine Okafor supporting no portrait yet
- S Siobhan Dunne antagonist-adjacent no portrait yet
- D Dermot Rafferty supporting no portrait yet
- P Pauline Nagle supporting no portrait yet
- B Barry Turnbull supporting no portrait yet
- K Kyle Dunne minor no portrait yet
- G Gary Rafferty minor no portrait yet