Siesta on the Río Rico: Full-length. 9M / 4W. Variable ages, 20s on up. Two married couples; one husband is several years older than his young trophy wife. One husband is a college professor, so, perhaps in his 30s. The ship captain, postmaster, and mayor could be anywhere from late 40s to 70s. Five acting areas on the set. The Hotel Vista Hermosa has three rooms and a bar. The rooms could be on platforms behind and above the bar. SL there is an office with a plain desk and chairs. In Siesta on the Río Rico, unsuspecting tourists traveling separately (two married couples and a single woman) depart from the capital of a third world Latin country on the same ramshackle boat traveling up the Río Rico, unaware they are soon to be the prey of local, corrupt police. The boat stops in a poor jungle town called Ciudad Baraja whose only claim to fame is a ruin just outside the village. When the town’s mayor who was carrying a large sum of money does not get off the boat with them, the local police chief immediately launches an investigation. He assumes the mayor was robbed and murdered by one of the tourists. He subjects them to embarrassing interviews, takes their passports, plays them against each other, and forces them to stay at the unadorned Hotel Vista Hermosa, the town’s only hotel, until he completes his investigation. The tourists, already wrestling with personal problems of their own, are outraged by the claim that one of them is a thief and murderer and resent their compulsory detention. Joining forces, they plot their escape from Ciudad Baraja, but are confronted by intricate and surprising layers of obstacles working against them that make it increasingly difficult for them to succeed.