Case ########-5.

Ruminations on identity and the lack thereof.

Audio recording by the Archivist, in situ.

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Edited this week by Annie Fitch, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead & Alexander J Newall.

Written by Jonathan Sims and directed by Alexander J Newall.

Produced by Lowri Ann Davies.

Content warnings:

- Loud / Discordant SFX

- Mass Pain

- Character Death

- Body horror

- Impostors

- Dissociation

Performances:

- "The Archivist" - Jonathan Sims

- "Martin Blackwood" - Alexander J. Newall

- "Not-Sasha" - Evelyn Hewitt

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