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So Long as the Show Is Shown
The Gilded Menagerie has run the Salt Line for thirty-one years on a contract that renews itself every time the canvas goes up, and this season the renewals have started passing through: the animal is coming up in the performers and the person is going down in the animal.
- ~55 min (estimated)
- 12100 words
- 25 scenes
- 14 branch points (script estimate)
- 5 endings (script estimate)
26 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
No cover art yet · art review pending · listing metadata: importer · counts: script-heuristic
About
August Vane, 34, has eight nights of a two-night booking in the chalk town of Nine Elms to find out what the oldest contract in the Ledger actually says, before the Bookkeeper, his aunt, and a man who is becoming a lion all stop being people he can argue with. A travelling circus in a temperate river country. The Gilded Menagerie takes the Salt Line — a raised chalk causeway between drainage ditches — from the wintering ropeworks at Harrow's Landing to the seaside terminus at Saltcombe, two nights in every town, eighteen wagons and a Big Top moved at night by teams of heavy draught animals. Six of those animals are on paper as horses. The whole world is always either arriving or leaving, which is why showfolk never say *here*. The magic is contractual and clerical. A performer who signs with the Director signs away their name and gets back a body made of the animal they most resemble in
Content notice3 topics · tap to review
- audience: adults only
- genres: adult fantasy drama, legal and institutional ensemble, circus ensemble
- depiction of harm: no gore, no injury, no violence that lands, and no death
Cast
- A Adelaide Vane no portrait yet
- A August Vane no portrait yet
- H Halloran Quill no portrait yet
- M Mateo Brill no portrait yet
- O Odette Vrain no portrait yet
- N Ninian Sallow no portrait yet
- S Surgeon Tarrant no portrait yet
- F Fen Lockwood no portrait yet