Full-length play

The Bronxville Trilogy,

or Marriages of Inconvenience

 A Series of 3 Full-Length Plays by

William Ivor Fowkes

  • Part One: Roommates
  • Part Two: Marriage
  • Part Three: Aftermath 

Three married men pay the price for leading double lives in a time of social change.

 

THE BRONXVILLE TRILOGY presents stories of three married couples whose husbands are closeted gay men. The setting is Bronxville, an affluent suburb in New York's Westchester County. The time is primarily 1971 to 2000, a time of sweeping changes for gay people.

 

    In Part One (ROOMMATES), Graham

    Walker  and Dan Carlsen--two best

    friends and lovers since college--struggle

    with their desire to be together in a world

    where marriage to women is the 

    unquestioned norm, and the AIDS 

    epidemic makes living out of the closet

    a frightening option.

 

  In Part Two (MARRIAGE), Chip

  Miller--a college student on the 

  verge of committing suicide

  because he fears he might be

  gay--decides to marry his

  girlfriend instead.

     

    In Part Three (AFTERMATH),

    newly-out Graham Walker and Chip Miller

    embark on a challenging relationship

    after their marriages fall apart.

Full script available at the National New Play Network's New Play Exchange (NPX). Click here.

 

JENNY NORTH, the prologue to AFTERMATH, has been published in the first issue of The Soliloquist Magazine. 

Click here (the last monologue in the issue). 

 

LENGTH: 4 hours 30 minutes (Each part is approximately 90 minutes long.) 

CAST: 4M, 3F (playing 29 roles + 4 voices).

 

SETTING

Sissinghurst Castle, England; New Haven, CT; Manhattan; Bronxville, NY; The White House; Cornell University; Boothbay Harbor, ME; Montclair, NJ; Provincetown, MA.

 

TIME

1862-2066

 

MAIN CHARACTERS

Graham Walker. Investment banker from Westport, CT. Articulate and intense. 19-48

Dan Carlsen. Lawyer from Fargo, ND. Athletic and boyish. Ages from 19 to 44.

Kitty Walker. Book editor, then stay-at-home mom. Attractive and shy. 28 to 44.

Debbie Carlsen. Advertising account exec, then stay-at-home mom. 28 to 44. 

Chip Miller. Senior executive at a packaged goods company. Ages from 19 to 42.

Sally Miller. Chip's wife. Good at taking charge of things. 19 to 39.

 

OTHER CHARACTERS

Richard Hamlin. Flamboyant Yale professor. 30, then 36. 

Todd Wood. Oversexed businessman from Dallas. 45.

Doctor Manzone. Gay. Overworked. 36.

Seth Regan. Sly and promiscuous PR writer. 30.

Franklin Mancuso. Openly gay. Charming real estate agent. 35, then 36.

Leo Schwartz. Family man with a double life. 40.

 

17 additional characters

4 voices