Codex Orange, outline

Codex Orange (a play in 5 Acts)

Dramatis Personae

Lillian Farmworth—school board chair

Rhea Smith—a school board member

Jon Tiosook—a school board member

Helmand Dostune—high school guidance counselor

Dr James Bourban—district 27 superintendent

Mary-Alice Springer—high school principal

Lou Vestral—high school music teacher

Erin Kryzinski—high school literature teacher

Petra Green—school nurse

Sheriff Bohumil Slucha—Golden Valley Police Department

Duputy Phillip Porter—GVPD

Officer Sharon Simmons—GVPD

Officer Timothy Racine—GVPD

Officer Claude van Erdal—GVPD

Officer Gustavo Marrot—GVPD

Detective Soledad Bream--GVPD

Cole Barnadine—a local drunk

Terry Onaiwah—his girlfriend

Father Faye—a priest

Antony Serentino—GV boys’ basketball coach

Beth King—alumnus GV player

Gavin Tate—alumnus GV player

Billy Urskine—current GV player

Becky Tillinger—current GV player

Russel Jonsrud—student

Tracy Quamme—student

Setting: Golden Valley, Minnesota; February, 2010

Ii:    Monday evening, after a run

Iii:   the following morning, sizing up the school

Iiii:  at a park in Golden Valley, under leafless trees

Iiv:  Wednesday evening, at the high school library

IIi:   Thursday morning at the GVPD precinct

IIii:  that evening at the school gym

IIiii: next morning, in AP English class

IIiv:  same day, at the GVPD precinct

IIIi:  that evening, School Board meeting at GVPD

IIIii:  that night, the high school roof

IIIiii: the following morning, after mass

IIIiv: later that afternoon, at Wesley Park

IVi:   the next morning, at the school’s common area

IVii:  that afternoon, in SPRINGER’S office

IViii: later that evening, atop the school

IViv: the following morning at school

Vi:    immediately after, into the common area

Vii:   soonafter, with regular rounds of explosions

Viii:  at the same time, in SPRINGER’S office

Viv:  the following evening, after mass