Prohibition is a rich & well chronicled period. We decided to cheapen & pun up the lore with a comical treatment of the bootlegging era. The Prohibitioners is an over-the-top 3-act play set in the 1930’s timeperiod. It tells the tale of brave, but out-of-touch G-Men, who attempt to break up the mob and circumvent corrupt local police with the help of true-blue Irish officers, a siren with a conscience, and the stupidity of the local crime syndicate. The Prohibitioners has mobsters, it has graft; it has dames, and it has tommy guns. It’s a drinking man’s drinking play.

3-acts, with a gender flexible cast of 13.

This play is currently in pre-production. If you’re interested in a reader’s copy of the script, want to bring it to your theater, or would like to license it for production, drop us a dime (that is… send us an e-mail. Contact us: really).

Cast of Characters for The Prohibitioners:

Narrator: 20’s-40’s. Male or Female. A jack or jill of all trades, the narrator of this story breaks the fourth wall constantly by opening a scene and then merging with it. Brash and impolitic, the Narrator’s big mouth is
likely to bring trouble.

Agent Rex Tanner: 30’s-50’s. A dime store novel hero, he is larger than life and completely straight and narrow, which sometimes causes him to miss what’s
right in front of him. Law and order is his religion and he leads a traditional
homelife.

Skip Taylor: 20’s-40’s. A gee-whiz kid who follows Rex around keeping him out of trouble but never really being taken seriously by others.

Mickey McGillicutty: 20’s-50’s. An Irish legacy cop, he knows the ropes and knows how things work, but can’t stomache the corruption of his institution.

Margie Tanner: 30’s-50’s. Rex’s wife. Appears to be a traditional housewife, but underneath her demure exterior she has the body of a fox and the heart of a lion.

Ruby Heroine: 20’s-40’s. Sultry nightclub singer. She oozes sexuality, but manages to maintain her moral compass.

The Villains:

Don Marone: 40’s-60’s. Mafia Don of the old school, he has taken over every racket in Metroville city. He speaks in a style that Marlon Brando’s estate would sue us for, if they weren’t such nice & reasonable people.

Tallboy Marone: 20’s-40’s. Don Marone’s son. Tall and imposing, but not the brightest bulb on the tree.

Sofia “Legs” Marone: 20’s-40’s. Don Marone’s daughter and the true brains of the operation. Smarter than anyone gives her credit for, but held back by the fact that she is a woman in a man’s world.

Tommy “Repeater”: 20’s-40’s. Mafia henchman. Your traditional yes man. Your traditional yes man.

Chief Clancy O’Malley: 30’s-60’s. An Irish grifter in uniform, he has long since
given up fighting criminals and has decided to become a criminal himself. He is blatanly corrupt and thinks he is above the law.

Johnny Grease: 20’s-40’s. An Italian wiseguy, Grease is full of himself and doesn’t undersand why everyone else isn’t. Pompous, entitled, arrogant, and those are his good qualities.

Max the Knife: 20’s-50’s. Heartless criminal, who perfers to do things “by the book.” He’s who the mob calls when they need to fit someone for cement shoes.

The Prohibitoners play is suitable for dinner theater or for any other type of stage. Food / beverage elements can be downplayed or reworked to fit the venue. Some marketing ideas include: Depression era cocktails or mixed drinks with a Speakeasy theme, Great Depression cuisine (like the Slugburger or Hoover Stew), and costume contests (flappers, dandies, gangsters, G-men, and gun molls). For further inspiration, check out this story about a recently re-discovered speakeasy at the Louisa Hotel.