Six Weeks' Notice

The washhouse closes in five weeks. You are meant to save it, and your new job starts in another city.

literary · funny · warm · attentive · Medium, about 30 scenes

You play

Quinn, Quinn, forty, a logistics planner who has lived in Fenwick for fourteen years and leaves in six weeks for a better job in another city

How it begins

Quinn had six weeks left in Fenwick, and the washhouse had five. For a fortnight Quinn had sat on the same bench with a pocket notebook, writing down who came in, what they brought and which machine they used, because the council wanted numbers and nobody else had any. On the third Tuesday, Ayo from the flat downstairs sat down on the other end of the bench, saw her own name on the open page, and leaned over to read it properly.