Written by

Lynn Elliott

A wealthy, widowed New York socialite, and a know-it-all preacher enters the unfamiliar world of rodeo, determined to “rescue” the widow’s wayward daughter who has fallen for a young bull rider. But plans go comically awry. Eventually the rodeo and unlikely romances win the day.

The prompt for “Rodeo” was Ben Jonson’s “Bartholomew Fayre” (1614), a play in which the “place” (Fayre or Rodeo) becomes a character. It is both passive and active: judged by those entering and, in turn, judging those who enter.