The Bigfoot Letters tells the story of Shelia Hartman, a rural southern Ohio woman whose life is changed forever when she accidentally hits a Bigfoot with her pick-up truck. After deciding to raise its orphaned baby as her own, she contacts amateur Bigfoot investigator Roger Korman for help. Soon, thanks to Sheila’s meddling sister Stella, the local blow-hard Pastor and the local Sheriff, they become involved in a chase across the countryside. After a number of detours, including a stop at the Quad-State Bigfoot Symposium and Renaissance Fair, the main characters convene at Squirrelly Joe’s Freak Farm to determine the fate of the infant creature. Written by Nancy Nixon and Russel Stich, The Bigfoot Letters is an uproarious, unpredictable adventure with characters that are literally larger than life!
Cast Size: 11-18 (opportunities exist for actors to play multiple roles)
7 female, 5 male, 6 either
Show length: 90-100 minutes (plus intermission)
Set Requirements: Minimal
Tables, Chairs, Desk, Bench
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Baby Cubby puppet Rental
Banner Rental
Plaster Footprint Casts
What people are saying about The Bigfoot Letters:
“Families are funny things. For some, it is the people that surround them at birth and follow them in a sea of brothers, aunts, sisters, uncles and cousins. For others, family is something found—it is friends and roommates and spouses added along the way. For some, family is who you run to. For others, it’s who you run from.
“But what really constitutes ‘family?’ Perhaps it has to do with the people who you believe in and who believe in you. When the play was brought forward by a current Senior for consideration in this year’s YSHS season, one of the things that drew me to it, outside the general hilarity in the overall idea and well, ^Bigfoot^, was the heart at its core. Yes, ‘The Bigfoot Letters’ is about a search for Bigfoot but it’s also about hope and family and who we choose to love, even when they steal our rototiller. It’s about forgiveness in the face of intolerance. It’s about changing one’s mind and gaining empathy. It’s about standing up for miracles even if it means facing harm yourself. It’s about who we love and who we choose to make our family.
“And there’s a Bigfoot. So we’ve got that going for us. Which is nice. “
-Lorrie Sparrow-Knapp, YSHS and MMS Performing Arts Teacher, Program Notes from the Director
“The Bigfoot Letters Delivers on Promise of Silliness”
“There is pleasure to be had in The Bigfoot Letters by Nancy Nixon and Russel Stich”
“… definitely generates a lot of energy”
- Christine Howey, CleveScene.com
”Written at about a joke per minute, this show is hilarious! I have now seen it twice and hope to one day audition for it.”- Mike H.
“The Bigfoot Letters is a delightfully fun show. I really enjoyed the characters in this play about a woman, who through an accident, ends up deciding to raise a baby bigfoot, and the people she encounters along the way. It's full of wit, humor and heart. Very enjoyable show, would love to see it again!”
-Shannon E.