This one-act comedy is a tall tale, based on Ozark Mountain folklore, depicting the Devil as only half bad (his mother was an angel). The Devil congures up an eligible beau for his daughter, and the excitement begins. This easy-to-perform comedy has the flavor of a western melodrama. There is plenty of action as a bank robber appears with a bumbling posse in pursuit. The secret identities of the beau and the robber add to the mirth. After some light-hearted entrances and exits, and a wild chase, the lovers elope, the Thief delivers the loot to the bank, and the Devil returns to where home fires are burning brightly.

The performance space may be a bare stage, or it may have a background of trees from the Ozark Mountain folklore. It's fun for all groups and all ages of actors and audience. For junior and senior high schools as well as college labs and experimental theatres.

A Director's Script (prompt book) is available from the publisher. It contains drawings of costumes and set, details on all technical aspects of staging, discussion of characterization, plot, and theme. It also suggests the complete blocking and full stage directions for all movement and business.

Other folktales: Aesop's Clinic; Don Coyote; Folktales, Too; Happily Ever After; In Search of Three Sillies; The Jack Tales; Little Red Riding Wolf; Storyville; Tales from the Brothers Grimm; The Three Old Women's Bet; Through the Storybook