TOM FRYE
Actor - Director - Playwright - Producer
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Hang Em High

or

No Noose is Good Noose

by

Tom Frye


SYNOPSIS
Women's lib hits Independence, Kansas. The roles of the traditional melodrama are switched with great fun. Our heroine, Cecile Mae Hoggatt, is a rough and tumble tom boy and she can take care of herself and the new school teacher. The school teacher is Walter Harry Adams and he's a little shy and uncertain to the ways of the old west. Cecile and her father, the sheriff, are looking for a masked villain who is robbing the stagecoaches. Walter has his own problems with a set of twin students (male and female) who are as likeable as Dracula and Frankenstein and their mother is even worse. Even more disturbing is the head of the school board, Miss Olive Pitts who rules with an iron fist. Could this evil highwayman and our Miss Pitts be the same person? Hmmm a female villain, er villainess? The fun never ends with a great surprise fast paced ending. Hope you can keep up.

CAST of CHARACTERS:
3 men and 3 women.
Walter Harry Adams: Built like Atlas, but as shy and afraid as a kitten. Hero or heroine?
Cecile Mae Adams: She's all woman and she knows how to save any day. Heroine or hero?
Miss Olive Pitts/Masked Pimento: School board president and part time thief. Women rule in this play.
Mamy and JD Pickard: Six year old twins (played by teens or older). These monsters make the Nazi youth seem like the Girl Scouts.
Sheriff Hoggatt: Cecile's pa. He's a real character. Spittin and chewin is what he does best.
Mrs. Angina Pickard: The twins mother. She has the hots for Walter...Well actually any male that's breathing.

SETS
(1) Out on the prairie.
(2) One room school house.