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The Lone Star Love Potion
A smart season pick for directors and producers looking for a fast-paced inheritance farce with a 3M/4F cast, one Texas ranch house setting, strong ensemble comedy, and a suspicious little love potion that sends everyone’s good manners galloping off into the sunset.
If your audience enjoys the family-scheme energy of Knives Out and the Texas-sized drama of Dallas, this ranch-house farce serves up the laughs with a wink.
2 Acts, 2 hours + Intermission / Leading Role for Female 3M/4F/ Main House of Circle Ranch in Texas / Recommended for ages 13+
“An evening of absolute entertainment, fast-paced, funny and just plain enjoyable. Shows like this don’t come along every day!” - The Racine Journal Times / Wisconsin
Synopsis
At the wealthy Wilburn family ranch in Texas, everyone has gathered for the reading of the late patriarch’s will — which means grief, remembrance, and heartfelt family unity are, naturally, nowhere to be found.
Instead, the air is thick with suspicion, ambition, and the not-so-subtle hope that Uncle Barkley has left behind enough money to make everyone briefly tolerate one another. When a mysterious “love potion” enters the picture, the already-tense inheritance gathering takes a turn from awkward to absolutely unbridled.
As relatives, household staff, neighbors, and legal minds circle the estate, motives become murky, attractions get inconvenient, and everyone starts wondering who wants the fortune, who wants the potion, and who has completely lost their grip on good manners. Before long, the ranch house is galloping with secrets, schemes, romantic confusion, and Texas-sized comic chaos.
At the center of the mayhem is one deeply suspicious question: is the love potion real, or is it just the perfect excuse for everyone to behave outrageously? Either way, the Wilburn family gathering quickly becomes a full-blown stampede of inheritance hijinks, romantic mischief, and laugh-out-loud reversals.
The Lone Star Love Potion is a fast-paced, crowd-pleasing farce for community theatres, dinner theatres, and companies looking for a lively 3M/4F cast, one manageable Texas ranch house setting, strong ensemble roles, family-feud comedy, romantic complications, and plenty of physical and verbal humor. This Parker Play gives directors and producers a producible comedy with big character energy, clear comic stakes, and one suspicious little potion that sends everyone’s dignity riding off into the sunset.