BETHEL – Western Mountains Senior Players will be on the playbill when the town holds its second annual Maine Performing Arts Festival Aug. 5 to 12. Senior Players will join with professional performers for an evening of “Mainely Humorous,” beginning at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, at Gould Academy’s McLaughlin Auditorium.

Following the Wild West theme of this year’s festival, Senior Players, directed by Lynn Arizzi, will present “Cactus Juice Saloon,” by Jean Fetter, a comical play about the Old West. Miss Lacey, played by Rosabelle Tifft, owns a saloon, where a cowboy named Lefty, played by Ross Timberlake, meets Susannah, a singing, dancing saloon girl played by Karen Paul. The plot develops when Sheriff Stoutheart, played by Joe Arizzi, reveals a big secret about Lefty.

Also performed will be the comedy “Medea,” by Christopher Durange and Wendy Wasserstein, which has the same storyline as the Greek tragedy. Medea is played by Joanne Morse with the ever-present Greek chorus played by Mary Colbath, Arita Zitoli, Karen Paul, Rosabelle Tifft, Sharon Lyon, Mary-Ellen Gartner and Carole Timberlake. Jason, Medea’s husband, is played by Ross Timberlake; the Messenger by Joe Arizzi; and the Deus ex machina by Roberta Taylor.

Lorrie Hoeh will perform a monologue, “Help Me, I’m Becoming My Mother,” written by Deanna Riley. Hoeh plays Lynn, the daughter of a strong-willed mother, who finds she is speaking and becoming just like her mother.

The entire cast of Senior Players will join professional performers of the musical production “Doc Faust! A Wild Western Musical” in the reading of “Holiday Memory,” directed by the Festival Arts Director Andrew Harris, executive director of L/A Arts. This short story by Dylan Thomas revolves around an English national holiday, August Bank Holiday, when the whole country spends a day at the beach. Additional Senior Players in this reading are Peter Gartner, Walter Brough and Jackie Cressy.

Western Mountains Senior Players carry scripts with them when they perform and are not required to memorize lines. However, as with all theater companys, players follow stage directions, use props and develop the characters they portray.

For festival ticket information, call Lynn Arizzi at 824-0080. More information is also available on the festival Web site at www.mainepaf.org/.