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The Understudy
You know every line. The part may cost someone her last night onstage.
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Nell Achebe is second cover for Lady Macbeth at the decaying Gallowgate repertory, a theatre permanently three weeks from closure. She knows the role better than anyone except Delphine Marr, sixty-two, magnificent, and a...
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Delphine is late, so Nell runs the banquet scene in rehearsal clothes and lands every silence.
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