In Order of Appearance
by Gardner Mckay

Name: In Order of Appearance
Brand: Gardner Mckay
SKU: 9780573628702
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

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90 mins Present Day Ensemble Cast Interior Set Contemporary Costumes/Street Clothes

Synopsis

Tom Vickery has a secret.

Or did.

Twenty years ago he wrote a play that his agent, Morris Bonecream, told him was too personally embarrassing to produce.

Tom set fire to him.

Bonecream sued Tom for arson.

Tom disappeared.

He is presumed dead, but in reality is living in the Maine woods bottling cranberry brandy and married to Gemma Jones, a woman who knows nothing of his past.

Suddenly, Bonecream appears; Tom's play is a huge hit in London under an Englishman's name, Dunlop Sablehand.

Bonecream needs Tom's script as evidence to get his commission from the plagiarist.

Gemma reads the play and leaves Tom.

A character from the play, Shelley Vickery, turns up.

She straightens Tom out.

The hired man falls in love with her.

Gemma comes back to Tom.

Bonecream finds God, or someone like him.

In Order of Appearance is a sequel to Gardner McKay’s play Untold Damage .

Press Reviews

"Very, very funny. A play with a long future."
— Sylvie Drake

Characters

Character	Gender	Age	Description
Maurice Bonecream older than Tom, President of Bonecream Artists Agency, hyperactive, tyrannical, joyous, manic.	—	—	older than Tom, President of Bonecream Artists Agency, hyperactive, tyrannical, joyous, manic.
Emma Jones Fairbrother nearly thirty, Tom's wife of nine years, artistic, local girl down countless generations.	female	—	nearly thirty, Tom's wife of nine years, artistic, local girl down countless generations.
Eli Morgenstern mid-twenties. Hired man, lives behind Fairbrothers, local, slightly abstracted by a nasty fall, but subject to moments of great clarity.	—	—	mid-twenties. Hired man, lives behind Fairbrothers, local, slightly abstracted by a nasty fall, but subject to moments of great clarity.
Dunlop Duny Sablehand late thirties, Foppish British theater agent, first time playwright and plagiarist.	—	—	late thirties, Foppish British theater agent, first time playwright and plagiarist.
Shelley Vickery fifty-ish, Tom's older sister, tall, handsome, strong willed, incapacitated; in a wheelchair.	female	—	fifty-ish, Tom's older sister, tall, handsome, strong willed, incapacitated; in a wheelchair.
Randall Moss a private investigator.	—	—	a private investigator.
Billy a limousine driver.	—	—	a limousine driver.
Yo Bravo an ex-Desert storm helicopter pilot.	—	—	an ex-Desert storm helicopter pilot.
Halen Fairbrother (born TOM VICKERY), forty-five-ish, Bearish, balding, possibly bearded. A fugitive, burdened.	—	—	(born TOM VICKERY), forty-five-ish, Bearish, balding, possibly bearded. A fugitive, burdened.