This time, Gorman, and his dedicated band of freaks, apply their absurd “scientific” method to the timber-framing industry on the coast of Maine. What they discover through their keen observations of several “How-To” books, from Bob Villa’s “This Old House” to “Ty’s Tricks (Home Repair Secrets)” by Ty Pennington, is a frightening cult that threatens the sanity and common sense of the modern building world.

Two carpenters—T and G, of “T & G All-Star Construction”—stumble upon the occult publishing world of “How-To” books as they read a book called “Stonework (Reflections on Serious Play and Other Aspects of Country Life) to pass the time on a ferry boat ride from a remote island to the mainland. Their brutally satirical examination of the book leads to an exposure of the ridiculous “pseudo-existential” premise of several other books—“Building on the Past (How to Build a Timber-Framed House)” and “The Nun’s Penis (How to Draw the Male Figure and Remain Chaste)”

As the ferry boat churns closer to the mainland a strange and disturbing alliance of “How-To” Guru’s, including Bob Villa and Ty Pennington, manifests itself to perform a series of rituals to prevent T and G from reaching the mainland and spreading their discovery of the cult to the greater world.

Things come to a desperate climax as the cult leaders resort to Down-East voodoo to turn T and G’s car into a coffin, trapping the now “possessed” carpenters inside. As T and gasp for air and claw at the windows, the timber-framing author achieves a magnificent 16’ timber-framed erection and the figure-drawing nun achieves a shuddering orgasm after engaging in sex with a cardboard cut-out of Bob Villa.

It may not be the first time a nun has climaxed on stage, but it is, as far as the playwright knows, the first time two people have been killed in a car by a book. This tour-de-force performance of the absurd also promises one other theatrical first: Manhattan’s first timber-framed erection.