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Story description
You are the understudy for a play that has never finished its run. The theatre remembers every actor.
The Understudy is an interactive gothic horror story set in the Ravenscar Theatre, an old playhouse with a reputation, three weeks before opening night.
Three weeks of rehearsal
- Learn lines, block scenes, take notes, attend fittings and survive tech runs.
- Meet a company of brilliant, nervous people with their own superstitions.
- Notice what the building is doing: props that move, voices in the empty house and a final page nobody typed.
Margot directs and is certain the play is worth it. Teddy stages and keeps the peace with the building. Cleo is the new lead, and is sure someone is watching from the wings. What haunts the Ravenscar and what the final scene means are different every time you play.
Velvet, dust and dread
Theatrical gothic horror with rehearsal-room humor and a building that pays attention.
An extra line has been typed on the last page. Do you rehearse it?
Characters
The director. Brilliant, brittle and certain that the play is worth anything.
The stage manager. Calm, wry and the only person who sleeps in the building's good graces.
The new lead. Generous, nervous and increasingly sure someone is watching her from the wings.