Roles:

• Mercy Watson, a sweet, spoiled pig
• Mr. Watson, Mercy’s father
• Jimmy the Workman
• Mrs. Watson, Mercy’s mother
• Trixie Patootie, this year’s Butter Queen
• Eugenia Lincoln, a spiteful spinster
• Baby Lincoln, a kindly spinster
• General Washington, an eager cat
• Baker
• Man in the Movie Theater
• Tour Director
• Lorenzo, the Fireman, eager, youthful
• Animal Control Officer Francine Poulet, ambitious but maybe not the sharpest knife in the drawer

The following resources are included in each performance license:

• Permission to photocopy the PDF script for your production so there is no additional cost for these assets.

Please note: This title requires additional permission from underlying rights holders. Please allow additional time for performance license applications.

The following resources may be added to you license for an additional fee:

• While this title is not a musical, there is an optional performance-quality sound design created by Victor Zupanc available which includes 99 audio files that can be used for underscoring and sound effects.

Victoria Stewart's plays include Rich Girl (The Old Globe, Theatre 502, George Street Playhouse, Cleveland Playhouse, Lyric Stage), Mercy Watson to the Rescue! (Olympia Family Theater, Magik Theatre, Children's Theatre Company, Marin Theater Company), Hardball (Live Girls Theatre!, SPF), Fissures (lost and found) (Actors Theater of Louisville), Clandestino (Mixed Blood), LIVE GIRLS (Urban Stages, WHAT, Stage Left, Eternal Spiral Project), 800 Words: The Transmigration of Philip K. Dick, (Caravan Theater, Live Girls Theatre!, Workhaus Collective), an adaptation of Henry James' The Bostonians and a new play Ophelia Redux. She has received the Francesca Primus Award, a McKnight Advancement Grant, the Helen Merrill Award, the Susan Smith Blackburn Award (finalist), and the Jerome Fellowship. Recently, she finished a screenplay for HBO, APPETITE FOR SELF-DESTRUCTION. Her collaborative bilingual piece, CLANDESTINO, was developed at the Sundance MassMOCA lab and New York Theater Workshop. She was a founding member of the Workhaus Collective and is an Affiliated Writer with the Playwrights' Center and a member of WGA West and the Playwrights Union of Los Angeles.

Originally produced by Children’s Theatre Company in 2012