Pioneer Drama Service Melodramas for Schools, Community Theatres and Professional Theaters

	Melodramas Pioneer Drama Service is proudly known as The House of Melodrama! And it is no wonder why our company is considered the best resource of melodrama materials in the world! The list below not only has melodramas that are ideal for schools, community theaters and churches, but also professional theatres. These entertaining playscripts are fun not only for audiences, but also for the producing groups. Also included in the list are melodramas that are ideal for Christmas. Of course, melodrama texts and aids are also offered to help you put on your show. Your audiences will not only be cheering the hero, but they will also be applauding your choice of one of our plays!
	Pioneer Drama Service is pleased to offer 105 melodramas.
	The Adventure of the Clutching Claw or... What's the Mater Alma? Cast: 5M, 4F (doubling possible) Set/Time: Several simple sets / About 60 minutes Dick has been give permission to court, Genevieve. But now her guardian has changed his mind. Could his strange behavior have anything to do with the arrival of his evil identical twin? More...	Sort by: Title Minimum cast size Running time Narrow your results: One act (71) Full length (34) 1-5 characters (6) 6-10 characters (37) 11-15 characters (37) 16-20 characters (12) 21-25 characters (10) 26-30 characters (4) 15-25 minutes (7) 30-55 minutes (40) 60-85 minutes (48) 90 minutes or more (11) Children's theatre (1) Christmas plays (7) Drama (3) Comedy/Lighthearted (102) Spoof or farce (9) Audience participation (2) Literary classic or adaptation (4) Melodrama/Western (103) Folk or fairy tale (2) Fractured fairy tale (1) Halloween (1) Religious (1) Start a new search

	Alaska or... The Secret of Yonder Mountain Cast: Flexible cast of 7 or more, plus extras Set/Time: One interior set / About 60 minutes Persephone is in search of Cyril who she fears has passed away in the mountains. Our hero, who has struck gold and has not perished, returns, only to fall into the clutches of Rhinestone Fred. More...

	Alias Smedley Pewtree or... The Villain of Glitter Gulch Cast: 4M, 5F Set/Time: One interior set / About 30 minutes Smedley Pewtree is forcing families out of Glitter Gulch. During a fierce blizzard, the town's populace crowds into a former gambling palace reputedly haunted by the spirits of long-departed miners. More...

	Avarice in Ambrosia or... Oil Be with You in Apple Blossom Time Cast: 6M, 4F, plus 1 role that can be either Set/Time: Interior café set / About 50 minutes This juicy melodrama is as traditional, warm and charming as homemade apple pie! More...

	The Ballad of Gopher Gap or... Sticky Fingers Won't Wash Cast: 5M, 6F, optional extras Set/Time: Single interior set / About 60 minutes Bunco DeSneer is salting a mine with fake minerals in hopes of snaring rich Easterners. This Melodrama will have your sides splitting with laughter. More...

	Belle of Bisbee or... Expel All Wicked Ways Cast: 4M, 7F, plus extras Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 60 minutes Belle, the schoolmarm, is losing her home. Our hero, Tom Good, plans to win the rock-drilling contest and rescue Belle. The prize is thirty dollars and a washtub of guacamole. More...

	Best in the West Cast: 16M, 12F, optional extras Set/Time: Simple set / About 90 minutes A misbegotten troupe of performers are stranded in the last place that would appreciate a wild west show. More...

	The Bilking of Lord Bilgeworthy Or... Froggy Went a-Courtin' Cast: 5M, 4F Set/Time: One simple interior set / About 45 minutes Set in any time period you wish, this community theatre play can be presented as a traditional melodrama or as a straight one-act play. More...

	Blazing Guns at Roaring Gulch or... The Perfumed Badge Cast: 4M, 5F Set/Time: One interior set / About 60 minutes Our hero, Harry Heartstone, is in hot pursuit of the villain, Snipe Vermin. Here the story takes an unusual turn because the villain and hero are twin brothers (played by the same actor.) More...

	The Bride Comes To Yellow Sky Cast: 9M, 4F Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 20 minutes Adapted from a short story written by Stephen Crane, author of the Red Badge of Courage, this play takes place in the frontier town of Yellow Sky about 1890. More...

	The Brothers O’Toole Cast: 7M, 10F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 90 minutes Terence and Ginger O'Toole, two charming con men, come to Aspiration, a dying mining community and proceed to liven it up! More...

	Bulldog Saves the Day or... I Was the Teacher's Pitt Cast: Flexible cast of 21 (roughly 10M, 11F) Set/Time: One simple set / About 60 minutes Lullaby leaves the stage to become a teacher. The last teacher, an actress, was run out of town. Big Harry Deal shows up and proposes to her, threatening to blow her cover if she doesn't accept. More...

	Cactus Pass Cast: Flexible cast of 25 (roughly 10M, 15F) Set/Time: Single exterior set / About 75 minutes With a ten gallon hat full of great characters roles and a script that's a cinch to produce, this play is sure to be a hit! More...

	Christmas Crisis at Mistletoe Mesa A Holiday Melodrama Cast: 6M, 4F, doubling possible Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 40 minutes Imagine two people so mean they would ban Christmas, rip down all the decorations and outlaw Christmas wrapping. More...

	Cornfield of Dreams Or... The Villain Was a Laughing Stalk Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (4M, 3F, plus 9 roles that can be either) Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 50 minutes Puns keep popping up in this wacky melodrama like a Jiffy Pop ready to explode! More...

	A Cowhand’s Christmas Carol or... 'Twas Plum Tired of Pudding Cast: Flexible cast of 6 (roughly 3M, 3F) optional extras Set/Time: Simple set / About 30 minutes When the villain plots to take deadly and drastic action with an explosive plum pudding, Silverado Sterling overcomes a blizzard, wolves and a bomb to save the day. More...

	Curse You, Otis Crummy or... A Rip in Old Calico Cast: Flexible cast of 12 (roughly 5M, 7F) Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes The mines of Calico have gone dry and the little town has fallen on hard times. Our villain pretends he is giving shelter to the unfortunate. Actually, he's running a gang of burglars. More...

	D.K. Molar — The Devious Dentist or... There's Gold in Them Thar Teeth! Cast: 2M, 4F Set/Time: Single interior set / About 60 minutes A depraved dentist has crafted a dastardly scam: after putting his patients to sleep with nitrous oxide, he removes the gold crowns and replace them with fakes made of fool's gold. More...

	The Diligent Daughter or... Lips That Touch Wine Cast: 3M, 3F, extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 45 minutes With the aid of Peter Princely, Nellie and Naomi Nice find their father and the villain is foiled. Peter and Nellie fall in love and Naomi miraculously regains her sight. More...

	Dirty Work on the Trail or... Go Slow With the Pony Express Cast: 4M, 8F, plus extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes The Widow Mentary and her daughter, Ella, operate the Pony Express relay station. Ella loves Ned Sterling. Alas, things take a mysterious turn when a stagecoach rumbles into town. More...

	Dogsbreath Devereaux — The Dastardly Doctor or... Nurses! Foiled Again Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (4M, 6F, plus 6 roles that can be either), optional doubling Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Our villain plots to wed and do away with a wealthy widow so he can inherit her fortune and her late husband's clinic. This melodrama will leave your audience in stitches. More...

	Double Take at Beatrice’s Boardin’ House or... Things Ain't Always What They Seem Cast: 3M, 4F, optional extras Set/Time: Single interior set / About 30 minutes A young, beautiful owner of a boarding house is in distress. If business doesn't pick up soon, the honorable establishment will have to close its doors forever. More...

	The Drunkard or... The Fallen Saved Cast: 3M, 2F Set/Time: Simple melodrama drops / About 120 minutes Here is a hilarious version of the most famous melodrama ever written. Your audiences will be captivated as love battles liquor for the life and soul of the upstanding hero. More...

	The Drunkard’s Revenge Cast: 3M, 2F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 90 minutes Stanley is working at a hotel, but decides to take his inheritance, (the entire $85) and venture forth to the gold fields in order to make his fortune and propose to lovely Prudence. More...

	Fairest Flower of the South or... To Know Her Is To Love Her Cast: 3M, 6F Set/Time: One interior set / About 45 minutes The disoriented Col. Culpepper fights on for the Confederacy. Meanwhile, the colonel's daughter, Aura Lee, must come up with the cash to replant the cotton crop. More...

	Fast Train to the Poorhouse or... Villains Have Loco Motives Cast: 4M, 9F, plus extras Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 45 minutes If only there was a way Pansy could help her friends. Our hero just may be able to save the day and win Pansy's heart... until he is found giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to Candy Samples. More...

	The Fiendish Firebug Strikes Again or... There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (roughly 7M, 6F, plus one dog that can be either), optional extras Set/Time: Simple set / About 60 minutes Villainous, greedy Neville Ashe buys the Uneeda Shirt Factory with intentions of burning it to the ground for insurance money. However, Mr. Ashe underestimates our hero, Fire Chief Pat O'Hara. More...

	Flora, the Fur Trader’s Daughter or... She Had Nothing to Hide Cast: 4M, 4F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes Flora Walker helps her father, Jake, who operates a fur trading post in the Great Plains. All is going well until the villainous Quigley Quagmire turns up. More...

	Girl of the Frozen North or... Condemned To Dead Man's Glacier Cast: 4M, 5F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Dainty and her mother get lost in a snowstorm while searching for a missing family member. When things look darkest, in dashes a dynamic, but naïve, red-coated Canadian Mountie. More...

	A Golden Fleecing or... The Undermining of Sarah Sweetflowers Cast: 3M, 5F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Sarah has inherited Cactus Bob's Saloon in a ghost town and plans to open Sarah Sweetflower's Sarsaparilla Saloon and Bridal Shoppe with the help of Stanley Stoutheart. More...

	Granny Smyth Goes to Washington Or... She Was the Apple of His Pie Cast: 6M, 7F, optional extras Set/Time: Single interior set / About 70 minutes This sweet delight is ideal for dinner theatre (or dessert theatre!) and is also great for fundraising with a pie sale! More...

	The Great Denver Railroad Scam or... If Aunt May Leaves, Who'll Weed the 'Tunias? Cast: 7M, 4F Set/Time: Two simple interior sets / About 60 minutes Horace Horsefat attempts to play out an evil scam to steal away Mary's House of Widows, which stands on a valuable strip of land wanted by a wealthy railroad company. More...

	The Great Ice Cream Scheme or... Robin Baskins to the Rescue Cast: 6M, 5F, optional extras Set/Time: Simple sets / About 60 minutes Everyone knows Pop Sicle's Ice Cream Parlor serves the best ice cream in town. When that cold-hearted villain, I.C. Custard, decides to steal Pop's recipe, things get a little sticky. More...

	He Lured Her To The Primrose Path (But He Was Nipped in the Bud) Cast: 4M, 3F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes Wiley Sidney Shift uses profits from fraudulent dealings with the cavalry to live grandly at the White Hotel in Muddy Gap where he pursues the heroine, Alice White. More...

	Headed South from the Great White North or... Get Out of Toronto Pronto! Cast: 9M, 11F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 70 minutes Barbara Seville has only three days before wily Lynden Renege and his two henchmen throw her and her staff out in the street! This rollicking, pun-filled show doesn't know which way to turn! More...

	Heaven Help the Po’ Taters or... I'd-a-hoe the Potatoes But They Just Won't Grow Cast: Flexible cast of 21 (9M, 12F), extras Set/Time: Several simple sets / About 60 minutes There's trouble in Tatertown! The Idaho community is desperate for rain lest their potato crops dry up in the fields. Especially hard hit are Irish Tater, his wife Etta Tater and the Tater tots. More...

	Her Heart Belongs To Heartburn or... Unsteady Times at the Stagger Inn Cast: 2M, 4F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 15 minutes Our heroine has inherited a valuable inn. Just as the evil sheriff is preparing to force her into an unwanted marriage, she is saved by the timely arrival of Harry Heartburn. More...

	Here Come the Cows or... Never Say "Moo" in Mesa Cast: Flexible cast of 11 or 12 (4 or 5M, 7F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Here comes a genuine cattle stampede live on stage! Villain Mandrake Mothdust is stranded in a dusty town. In fact, it's so hot, the cows are producing evaporated milk. More...

	Holder Posey or... Step Into My Darkroom and We'll See What Develops Cast: Flexible cast of 21 (roughly 9M, 12F), plus optional extras Set/Time: Simple area staging / About 90 minutes When our heroine rebuffs Holder Posey's advances, he attempts to blow her up with dynamite! Never fear! Our hero saves the day and soundly thrashes Holder in a slow-motion fight. More...

	How the West Was Dun or... Left High and Dry in Low Humidity Chasm Cast: Flexible cast of 23 (8M, 10F, plus 5 roles that can be either), optional extras Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 90 minutes Slick and wealthy Richard Coldheart must marry Polly Wanda Cracker to control the Cracker property. Meanwhile, our hero, Sheriff Wayne John, has his hands full surviving the antics of Deputy Doowrong. More...

	The Hunchback of Notre Dame Goes West or... 'Oh, Bury Me Not In Old Paree' Cast: Extremely flexible cast of 21 (about 6M, 15F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes A drama contest is coming up and a director plans to win with his adaptation of The Hunchback of Notre Dame. More...

	The Inventor’s Daughter Or... The Villain Made a Grab for the Lab Cast: 3M, 3F Set/Time: Single interior set / About 30 minutes A lovelorn widow is stuck with a cluttered workshop after the death of her husband, an unsuccessful inventor who left her nothing but a “talker box” — later to become the profitable walkie-talkie. More...

	Johnny Squeaky Or... Where There's a Will There's a Way Cast: 6M, 4F, plus 5 that can be either Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 40 minutes When rich Uncle Oscar passes away, family members shed crocodile tears out of one eye while they check out the condo, the Porsche and the fast food restaurants with the other. More...

	Keep the Home Fires Burning Cast: 5M, 5F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes It's a Christmas melodrama! Santa saves the day as he gives an elderly woman needed mortgage money, and the villain winds up enveloped in Reynolds Wrap... “foiled” again! More...

	Males Order Brides or... Big Harry Deal's Scandalous Scheme! Cast: 5M, 4F, plus extras Set/Time: Several simple sets / About 90 minutes An unscrupulous lawyer has hired Starr Billings to impersonate four fiancés to lure the bridegrooms into a mine shaft and blow them up, leaving Starr a wealthy widow to all four. More...

	Mine All Mine or... From Ghost Town to Kaboom Town Cast: 2M, 5F Set/Time: Interior general store set / About 30 minutes There's silver in them thar hills, but landowner Trillby Sterling doesn't know it. She's only concerned about digging a new well in her cow pasture as she waits for her true love, Tom, to return with the cows. More...

	The Miner’s Daughter or... Evil Reaps Its Just Reward Cast: 3M, 3F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 20 minutes Sheriff Harold Strongheart is called to a gold mine to investigate a crime. With our heroine, the miner's daughter, they unearth the evidence that pins the crime on the villain. More...

	Mischief in the Magnolias or... Weed 'Em and Reap Cast: Flexible cast of 6 (4M, 2F or 3M, 3F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 45 minutes The ownership of a magnolia-shrouded domicile is in danger unless regularly monthly mortgage payments are resumed within twenty-four hours. This melodrama is truly a Southern (sigh)t for sore eyes! More...

	Misdeeds at Mistletoe Mine Or... The Sanity Clause Cast: 3M, 4F plus 1M non-speaking role Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 45 minutes Here's a fun, versatile melodrama that’s great for Christmas... or any time of year! More...

	Never Trust a City Slicker or... Two Skunks and a Trunk Cast: 6M, 8F Set/Time: Single interior set / About 60 minutes Slicker Pinsetter knows the lovely Mary Delightful has a trunk containing some of her late father's plays. Unbeknownst to her, a revival of one of her father's plays is a current hit in London. More...

	The Old Cookie Shop Cast: 3M, 4F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes Sweet Nellie is about to lose her cookie shop to the evil banker. It's love at first sight when Harry first casts his eyes on the lovely Nellie. The cookie shop is saved and love triumphs over evil. More...

	An Orphan Betrayed Cast: 2M, 3F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes Alan Regent, assistant manager of a hotel (and a psychology student), sees through a fraud and rescues Mary Morrison from life in an institution and places her within his heart. More...

	The Paper Bag Bandit Rides Again or... Behind the Cheap Mask Cast: 5M, 14F, plus 1 role that can be either, optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes What seems to be the question on everyone's lips in the desert town of Cooked Goose? Is it, More...

	Payment For Billy Travers Cast: 7M, 2F Set/Time: Unit set / About 45 minutes The twist of fate that brought the son of a riverboat captain to assume the name of a notorious outlaw makes this play a chilling and unique experience. More...

	Pecos Bill & Slue-Foot Sue Meet The Dirty Dan Gang Cast: 7M, 8F Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 60 minutes Get on the wagon rollin’ West with this saga of Pecos Bill, who was raised by coyotes, and Slue-Foot Sue, who likes to ride down the Rio Grande River on a catfish. More...

	A Penny Saved or... The Widow Rootstock, Fully Loded Cast: 2M, 6F Set/Time: Interior sitting room set / About 40 minutes Dastardly villain Fourberie Blackguard visits the home of the Widow Rootstock, demanding she pay back money that the late Mr. Rootstock borrowed from him. (At least that's what he claims!) More...

	Peril at Pumpernickle Pass or... To Heir Is Human Cast: 4M, 8F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Waldo Weasel shows up with a phony gold map. When the gold strike doesn't pan out, Waldo discovers our heroine has a paper where the heir will own California! More...

	Peril on the High Seas or... Let's Get Together and Do Launch Cast: 5M, 9F, plus two offstage voices, optional extras Set/Time: Simple sets / About 90 minutes All aboard the H.M.S. Majestic for a riotous adventure set in the Roaring Twenties! Little does heiress Merry Ann Sweet, know that she is the intended victim of Snively Swine's kidnapping plot. More...

	The Perils of Priscilla or... The Schoolmarm's Dilemma Cast: 3M, 4F, plus extras Set/Time: One interior set / About 30 minutes Three students help the hero solve the murder and foil the villain. More...

	Plantation Malady or... Is There a Doctor in the South? Cast: 3M, 4F Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 20 minutes It's just after the Civil War. Uriah Creep (the cad) plans to take over the Follingsbee Plantation with juice from the deadly Voodoo Berry added to the Colonel's daily morning Julep. More...

	The Plight Before Christmas A melodrama with music based on characters from Dickens' Christmas Carol Cast: 4M, 3F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes This Christmas Melodrama based on the Dickens' classic story will have your audience rolling with laughter. More...

	Pony Expresso Or... The Villain Came to a Grinding Halt Cast: 4M, 7F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 45 minutes The Pony Expresso, a friendly establishment run by Star Bright and Aunt Dee Caff, is struggling. Their customers are buying their coffee at a lower price from the scheming Mo Cabana. More...

	Rascals Under the Big Top or... The Ring's Around Miss Rosie Cast: Flexible cast of 22 (roughly 6M, 16F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes Thanks to that unscrupulous villain, ringmaster Conrad Mooch, the circus is stranded. Not content to be just the ringmaster, Mooch has a dastardly plan. The circus will belong to him. More...

	The Ratcatcher’s Daughter or... Death Valley Daze Cast: 5M, 7F, optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Auntie Hush, famous for her “Hush Mush,” runs an orphanage in an abandoned stagecoach stop but is soon to be tossed out by the unscrupulous Whiplash Snivel, a city slicker. More...

	Rollin’ In Dough In Mistletoe Or... Don't Crack Jingle Bell Rock Cast: 3M, 4F Set/Time: Simple set / About 20 minutes It’s Christmas Eve in Mistletoe, but everyone is far from “Holly Jolly.” More...

	Run to the Roundhouse, Nellie Cast: 2M, 3F Set/Time: One exterior set / About 30 minutes Just as a train comes thundering down on helpless Nellie, Sterling Worth appears, defeats the villain and saves the day. Our hero and Nellie then join in a warm embrace. More...

	The Saga of the Golden Horseshoe or... That Was No Lady, That Was My Filly Cast: 10M, 12F, plus extras Set/Time: Single interior set / About 75 minutes Clem Chowder of Skunk County wants to catch some horse thieves. His plan? Dress up two of his co-workers as a horse. This farce can either be done as a melodrama or a western spoof. More...

	Saved by the Serendipity Circus or... She Was Trapped with Ease Cast: Flexible cast of 12, optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes Miss Priscilla Purity, owner of a wee orphanage, has become entangled within the wrongdoings of the evil Victor Vornado. The land the orphanage is on has a layer of black gunk on it. More...

	The Secret of Cornbread Flats Or... How Many Beans Does It Take to End Up in Smithereens? Cast: Flexible cast of 18 (about 7M, 3F plus 8 that can be either) Set/Time: Single set / About 60 minutes When the town of Beanville is blown to Smithereens, the poor Bean children were far afield gathering cow pies with their tenderfoot teacher, Chuck Stake. More...

	The Shagwood Secret or... Double Deal at the Dirty Dog Saloon Cast: 3M, 2F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 45 minutes Snake Diamond and his greedy cohort, Delores Divine, are setting a trap for Ethelburt Shagwood. When they realize he owns a mountain of gold, Delores lavishes her attention upon him. More...

	Shakespeare Goes to Gravel Gulch Cast: Flexible cast of 30 (6M, 16F, plus 8 roles that can be either), extras, optional doubling Set/Time: Simple set / About 75 minutes Sunny Day, determined to bring culture to the locals, arrives in Gravel Gulch with a troupe of actors. Unfortunately, the actors, headed by the shady Noble Hart, could make a playwright cry. More...

	The Shame of Tombstone or... Dirty Work in the Lucky Cuss Cast: 6M, 6F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Amanda Goodsort, once a Boston society belle, finds employment on the stage of the Birdcage Theatre. In order that her true identity never is revealed, Amanda sings in disguise. More...

	Shoot-Out at Hole-in-the-Wall or... Thou Shalt Aim for Honesty Cast: 5M, 5F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Ma and Pa Fritter set up shop in the midst of a den of rustlers and outlaws. In the end, Horace, our brave good guy, and Slick Mason, the scoundrel, meet in a hilarious showdown and shoot-out. More...

	Showtime on the Showboat or... Don't Throw Garbage in the River Cast: Flexible cast of 11 (roughly 5M, 6F) Set/Time: One simple set / About 45 minutes Rufus Bilge is angry for not being cast as Romeo on a showboat. He plots to sabotage the show. Luckily, Alex wins the lead, as well as the heroine's heart. More...

	The Snake in the Grass or... He Rattled the Rails Cast: 10M, 16F, optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 75 minutes Your audiences will be hitched to their seats as they watch a speeding train race towards our heroine, bound to a railway track. Only Sheriff Billy Bold, our hero, can rescue her. More...

	Someone Save My Baby, Ruth! or... Foil That Villain! Cast: 5M, 8F, optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes When lovely young widow Penny Candy and her baby, Ruth, are taken in by her Aunt Praline, owner of The Sweet Shoppe candy store, little does Penny know both love and danger lie ahead. More...

	Song of the Mounties or... Sour Notes in the Snow Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (5M, 8F, plus one dog that can be male or female) Set/Time: One simple set / About 60 minutes Dirty Jake drags Claudette to a lumber mill where she either talks or gets turned into a split personality by a whirling buzz saw. Dirty Jake is brought to justice, thanks to Bob Sledd. More...

	Stop That Villain! or... Have You No Shame, Rip Roquefort? Cast: 5M, 7F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Jenny doesn't realize that the miserable servant she's hired to wash and scrub is actually the villain's wife, Comatose. More...

	Stop the Presses! or... She's Not My Type Cast: Flexible cast of about 12 (roughly 5M, 7F), optional extras Set/Time: Interior set / About 60 minutes Aspen Print is a crusading young newspaper editor. Sleazy Tab Lloyd is running for mayor, but Miss Print won't endorse him. Instead, she writes articles supporting Edward Torial. More...

	Sundown Alley Cast: Flexible cast of 18 (roughly 7M, 11F), optional extras Set/Time: Single interior set / About 90 minutes Norma Desperate of Sundown Alley, out west in the tiny town of Lizard Gulch, retired from the stage because the audiences diminished. She plans a comeback once her version of “Cinderella” is complete. More...

	Sweeney Todd or... The Demon Barber of Fleet Street! Cast: 3M, 3F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 45 minutes A meat pie vendor strikes a diabolical business arrangement with the "Demon Barber." More...

	Switched at the Crossroads or... Truth Will Oust Cast: 4M, 5F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 35 minutes The hero turns out to be the villain and the villain is the hero after the story of their being “Switched at the Crossroads” as babies is revealed. More...

	Taming the Wild, Wild West in a Dress Or... Let's Give the Villain the Slip Cast: 11M, 10F Set/Time: Single interior set / About 90 minutes It's hard to be a hero when you're wearing a dress, but young actor Clarence Rawlins manages to do just that (and a lot more!) in this action-packed Western comedy. More...

	Those Wedding Bells Shall Not Ring Out or... The Bride Wore Green Chili Peppers Cast: 5M, 9F Set/Time: Single interior set / About 60 minutes Snicklefritz Grubb hopes to ensnare a young heiress or rich widow. One day a miner gives our heroine a huge gold nugget and Snicklefritz decides he must have it. More...

	Tillie the Teller or... The Great Bank Robbery Cast: 4M, 5F Set/Time: Simple set / About 25 minutes Tillie, the teller, loves Peter Strongvault, stalwart guard at the Fidelity National Bank. But Oliver Wheedle, black-hearted president of the bank, has plans for Tillie. More...

	Trapped in a Villain’s Web or... Weave Me a Loan Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (4M, 10F or 5M, 9F), optional female extras Set/Time: Several simple sets / About 60 minutes When Beau Weevil is to manage Victoria's business affairs, she is trapped in this villain's web. More...

	Treachery at Cartilage Creek or... Bogus Had a Bone to Pick Cast: Flexible cast of 10 or 11 (approximately 2M, 8F-4M, 7F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes When Johnny comes to Cartilage Creek, love beckons with the lovely schoolmarm and Mother Goose enthusiast, Crystal Clear. Alas, the unscrupulous Bogus Rancidview also has his eyes on our heroine. More...

	The Treasure of Huckleberry Ridge or... Hey, Jude! Cast: Flexible cast of 5M, 10-12F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 45 minutes Milton Millhouse has a map to the buried treasure on Sadie Sagebrush's Dude Ranch property... if only he knew what the treasure was! More...

	Trouble in Tumbleweed Suggested by Nikolai Gogol's The Inspector General Cast: Flexible cast of 20 (roughly 8M, 12F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 90 minutes Suggested by one of the greatest farces ever written, this cockeyed version of The Inspector General takes us to Arizona Territory in the 1880s. More...

	Unhand Her, You Villain or... Stop Thou Evil Presses Cast: 2M, 3F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes Our hero, an idealistic young reporter, takes on the villainous editor of a weekly newspaper. More...

	The Veggie Villain Or... He Had a Steak in It Cast: 5M, 11F, optional extras Set/Time: Single exterior set / About 60 minutes With all the usual elements, a villain, a hero and a heroine in distress, this Melodrama will have your audience laughing in the aisles. More...

	The Vile Veterinarian Or... How Much Is That Doggie with the Widow? Cast: Flexible cast of 15 (approximately 4M, 11F) Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes Just when it seems that Polly Purina and her grandma, Kay Nein, will be forced into the streets, the devious duo, Ray Beeze and Kitty Litter, arrive, posing as a veterinarian and his assistant. More...

	The Villain Took a Chip Shot or... Thar's Gold in Them Thar Greens Cast: 4M, 10F Set/Time: One exterior set / About 60 minutes The golf enthusiasts in your audience will cheer wildly when the hero rescues the poor heroine with what else but a great line-drive down the fairway! More...

	The Villain Wore a Dirty Shirt or... Always Wash Your Long Johns 'Cause It Makes a Lotta Cents Cast: 4M, 7F, optional extras Set/Time: Single interior set / About 60 minutes Phineas Flatworm discovers Olympia Klenz has become rich rinsing gold flecks from miners' laundry. The highlight is a laundry fight where the evildoer is brought to the soap-bar of justice. More...

	Wagon Wheels a-Rollin’ Cast: Extremely flexible cast of 29 (roughly 10M, 19F) plus extras Set/Time: Simple exterior set / About 75 minutes This fast-paced spoof of the Old West is filled with a goofy stable of hilarious characters. Produce this show and you'll experience the hysterical best of the West! More...

	Wedded To a Villain or... Locked In a Living Tomb Cast: 3M, 3F Set/Time: Two simple interior sets / About 40 minutes Sweet, innocent Bonnie Hartwell loves upstanding hero Jack Manley, but her harsh stepmother marries her off to Murgatroyd Flashington. Shame! Wedded to a villain! More...

	When Christmas Left Rattler Canyon Cast: 7M, 6F plus extras Set/Time: Simple set / About 45 minutes It’s a sad day in Rattler Canyon when the mayor gambles away the town to Big Bad Ben, the meanest guy in the west. What’s worse is that Big Bad Ben hates Christmas, so he cancels it! More...

	Who Shot the Sheriff? Cast: 14M, 8F, plus extras Set/Time: One interior set / About 75 minutes The sheriff of Box Elder has just been shot, allegedly by gunslinger Lucifer Lefty, who now claims to be the fastest gun in the Utah Territory. (He also happens to be the smelliest in the West!) More...

	Who Threw the Overalls in Mrs. Murphy’s Chowder? or... You Are What You Eat Cast: Flexible cast of 15 (roughly 6M, 9F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 60 minutes When a false will is procured naming the villain as the heir, Mrs. Murphy discovers the original covenant in a pair of overalls in a kettle of fish chowder, which also serves as the laundry tub. More...

	Who’s Mining the Mercantile? or... If It's Counterfeit, Ware It Cast: Flexible cast of 14 (roughly 7M, 7F) Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 45 minutes Gasp! Ebeneezer Weed, a counterfeiting criminal, purchases the mercantile where Sybil Bliss is forced to work because her mother is suffering from chronic crow's feet. More...

	The Widow’s Might Or... What Happened to Henry? Cast: 3M, 3F Set/Time: Simple interior set / About 30 minutes The task of investigating a crime falls to Oliver Upright who is also in love with a widow's daughter, Demura. But in the end, Demura's mother steps in and proves she is the real heroine of the story. More...

	Wildcat Katie Brown or... Oil's Well That Ends Well Cast: Flexible cast of 20 (roughly 10M, 10F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple interior sets / About 60 minutes When Wildcat Katie Brown's luckless father loses all of their property to shyster lawyer Thomas T. Tremaine in a crooked card game, Katie must fight for their land. More...

	The Wizard of Oz in the Wild West Cast: Flexible cast of 15 Set/Time: Several simple sets / About 60 minutes A spell cast by the wicked witch sends Dorothy, the Cowardly Lion, the Scarecrow and the Tim Man back through time and into the western frontier of the 1880s. More...

	Wynn Fairly, Champeen Rassler or... Get a Grip on Yourself Cast: Flexible cast of 16 (roughly 6M, 10F), optional extras Set/Time: Simple area staging / About 60 minutes Wrestling fans are thrilled when Wynn wins the regional tournament and is set to compete for the state title. However, Wynn's opponent has a greedy manager who will stop at nothing to ensure victory! More...

	You Can’t Stamp Out Love or... Oh, My Darling, Val Ann Tyne Cast: 4M, 8F Set/Time: Single interior set / About 45 minutes When Evil Eye Egbert shows up in the dying town of Loveland, his craftiness takes a lovesick turn. He decides this romantically named locale is the ideal place to operate a matchmaking scheme. More...