If the Shoe Fits
A wacky tale of love, murder and…shoes!

Written By:
Matt Thompson and Matt
Chiorini and Dana Vermette.
(www.dramaticpublishing.com)

It all started when Delores, an unhappy
housewife, and George, a shoe salesman,
met at Shoe Fantasy and it was love at first
shoe-fitting. The only thing standing in the way
was Delores' doting but half-witted husband,
Marvin, who would never agree to a divorce.
So there was only one thing left to do—kill
Marvin so they can run off together and live a
carefree life of passion and romance in a
tropical paradise. The lovers come up with a
crazy plan to poison Marvin over dinner.
Delores invites George to dinner and
introduces him to Marvin as a new friend.
While Marvin checks on dessert, they slip
poison into his wine. But things get out of hand
when Marvin doesn't fall for the bait. What was
supposed to be a simple foolproof murder
turns into a hilarious fiasco when Esperanza,
the eccentric Spanish-speaking maid, arrives
on the wrong day and she, too, falls for
George. Now George and Delores have to
devise a way to get rid of the lovesick
Esperanza and carry out their plan to kill
Marvin—that is without killing each other first!
Their attempts get funnier and funnier as the
lovers try again and again to finish the job only
to have Esperanza and Marvin unknowingly
foil their plans each time—resulting in this
wacky tale of love, murder, and…shoes!
We performed this play November 2007 and had a lot of
fun with it.
Check out the following clip from the play: