CINDERELLA CINDERELLA: Yes, I want to dance with you.
NARRATOR: And they danced all night. Suddenly, Cinderella hears
CHARACTERS: the clock strike. NARRATOR CLOCK: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, STEPMOTHER twelve. CINDERELLA CINDERELLA: Oh, no! I have to go! STEPSISTER 1 NARRATOR: Cinderella runs and runs outside the palace, but she STEPSISTER 2 drops one of her shoes. The Prince runs after her, but he doesn´t see her. FAIRY GODMOTHER PRINCE: Wait! Wait! What is your name? Where do you live? Wait! PRINCE PRINCE: (Sad, picking up Cinderella’s shoe) Where is she? I don´t even know her name. I don´t know anything about her. CLOCK NARRATOR: Next morning, the Prince woke up, thinking about SCRIPT: Cinderella. NARRATOR: Cinderella lives in a house with her Stepmother and her PRINCE: I have to find my pretty lady. I have her shoe! two Stepsisters. Her Stepmother never works around the house. Every NARRATOR: He goes to town and looks for her in every house there day, she says. is. STEPMOTHER: (Angry) Cinderella, wash the dishes, Cinderella, PRINCE: Is the pretty lady here? clean the house. Cinderella, work, work, work! WOMAN 1: No, she is not, and I don´t know where she is. NARRATOR: Her Stepmother is not good. NARRATOR: The prince goes to another house, and another one, and She is bad. One of Cinderella´s Stepsisters is another one. He doesn´t find her. At last, he goes to Cinderella´s house. fat with a big nose. The other one is thin, PRINCE: (Tired) Is the pretty lady here? with big ears, and they don´t like to work STEPMOTHER: Yes, she is. That is my daughter´s shoe. Daughter, either. come here. STEPSISTER 1: Cinderella, come here! STEPSISTER 1: Yes, mother. STEPSISTER 2: Cinderella, sweep the STEPMOTHER: Try on the shoe. floor! NARRATOR: Her daughter, who has a very fat foot, tries to put on the STEPSISTER 1: Cinderella, clean my shoe. shoes! STEPSISTER 1: (Upset) I can´t. This shoe is too small, and my foot is STEPSISTER 2: Cinderella, comb my hair! fat. It hurts! This is not my shoe. NARRATOR: Cinderella is very beautiful, and hardworking. She is NARRATOR: Meanwhile, Cinderella is coming down the stairs and good to her Stepmother and to her Stepsisters. One day they receive an says: invitation. CINDERELLA: That shoe is mine. STEPSISTER 1: (Excited) Mother, read it! STEPSISTERS: (Together) Ha, ha, ha. You’re silly! STEPSISTER 2: (Curious) What does it say? CINDERELLA: Yes, that shoe is mine! And I have the other one. STEPMOTHER: It says that every woman is invited to a ball. NARRATOR: Cinderella runs inside her room, and suddenly she CINDERELLA: (Excited) Oh, I want to go to the ball. I like to dance. appears with her pretty dress, and once STEPSISTERS: (Together) Do you want to go to the ball? You must again she looks very beautiful. be crazy! PRINCE: I love you! I love you! Do CINDERELLA: Yes, I want to go to the ball. you want to marry me? NARRATOR: Cinderella works hard. She starts making the dresses for CINDERELLA: Yes, I want to marry her Stepmother and her Stepsisters. She doesn´t have time to make her you. own dress. NARRATOR: And now Cinderella and STEPSISTERS: We are going to the ball! We are going to the ball! the Prince live happily in the palace. STEPMOTHER: If you don´t have a dress, you will not go to the ball. THE END CINDERELLA: (Crying) I don´t have a pretty dress! I have an ugly Author: Grimm Brothers dress. I am not going to the ball. Adapted by: K I D S I N C O & Ana STEPSISTERS: (Smiling) What a shame! We have pretty dresses. Ofelia Jaimes Díaz; found in Good-bye! http://www.kidsinco.com/2009/05/cinderella-2/ NARRATOR: Suddenly, Cinderella sees a Moral: Keeping your heart kind will help you make your dreams come very beautiful woman. It´s her Fairy true. Godmother. FAIRY GODMOTHER: Now you have a pretty dress. CINDERELLA: (Happy) Thank you, I have a pretty dress! I am going to the ball. FAIRY GODMOTHER: Just remember that you have to come back at twelve o´clock. Don ´t forget! CINDERELLA: No, I won´t forget! Good-bye. NARRATOR: Cinderella goes to the ball, and when she enters the palace, everybody looks at her. GIRL 1: What a pretty girl! GIRL 2: Who is she? NARRATOR: Suddenly, the handsome prince looks at her and says: PRINCE: I want to dance with her. NARRATOR: The prince can’t stop looking at Cinderella, so he walks close to her and asks her: PRINCE: Beautiful lady, do you want to dance with me? THE BLIND MEN AND THE ELEPHANT BLIND MAN 1: We behaved like fools. BLIND MAN 2: We were wrong. CHARACTERS: BLIND MAN 3: We got so furious. BOY BLIND MAN 4: Because all of us thought we were right. BLIND MAN 1 BLIND MAN 5: But none was. BLIND MAN 2 BLIND MAN 6: Instead of trying to understand. BLIND MAN 3 GUIDE: Of course, to know the truth we have to know every part. BLIND MAN 4 BLIND MAN 1: We thank you, and the elephant too, for teaching us BLIND MAN 5 that it´s better to agree with each other and try to know the truth. Now BLIND MAN 6 we know that reality is different depending on how we see it. GUIDE BLIND MAN 2: Let´s be friends again. SCRIPT: BLIND MAN 3: Let´s get to know the elephant. BOY: (enters stage running and yelling) An elephant! Everybody, come (The Blind Men walk around the elephant touching it at the same time) see it, it´s coming, it´s coming. Everybody, come out, come and see the THE END elephant. An elephant! Author: Fable from India (The Blind Men enter stage walking slowly with their cranes) Adapted by: K I D S I N C O BLIND MAN 1: I don´t know how an elephant looks like. Moral: there may be some truth to what someone says. BLIND MAN 2: Me neither. BLIND MAN 3: Me neither. BLIND MAN 4: I would like to know how an elephant looks like. BLIND MAN 5: Let´s wait so we can touch it. BLIND MAN 6: We will touch it with our own hands. Our fingers are our eyes. GUIDE: (enters with the elephant) Excuse me, ladies and gentlemen, this big elephant needs to walk through here. Be careful. BLIND MAN 1: (walking) Good man, please let these poor blind men touch your elephant. We want to know how it looks like. GUIDE: Fine, come near and touch him. He´s not dangerous. Don´t be afraid. BLIND MAN 1: (touches the elephant´s body) Mmmm, to me the elephant is like a rough wall. BLIND MAN 2: (touches the elephant’s leg) No, you are wrong. The elephant is like a tree. BLIND MAN 3: (touches the elephant’s tusk) That´s a lie, that´s a lie! My hands tell me clearly that the elephant is like a spear. BLIND MAN 4: (touches the elephant’s ear) You are completely wrong. I also touched it and I am sure that it’s like a hand fan, and my fingers don’t lie to me. BLIND MAN 5: (touches the elephant’s trunk) Nobody lies to me. The elephant looks like a snake. BLIND MAN 6: (touches the elephant’s tail) None of you know how an elephant looks like! I think that the elephant looks like a rope to tie packages. BLIND MAN 1: How do you dare to insult me? I am sure that it looks like a wall. BLIND MAN 2: I am telling you that it looks like a tree. BLIND MAN 5: No, it´s like a snake. BLIND MAN 3: A snake? Not at all! I am sure it looks like a spear. BLIND MAN 4: It`s a lie. It looks like a hand fan. BLIND MAN 6: It´s a rope! It´s a rope! (The Blind Men start fighting with each other. There´s great confusion and everybody is talking at the same time) BLIND MAN 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: (all at the same time) No one will say that I am wrong… Take this! Ouch, ouch… but I am right…. It´s a rope… It´s a wall… It´s a spear… No, I am telling you that it´s a hand fan… A tree, it´s a tree… Who hit me? Ouch, my back! GUIDE: Calm down, calm down! Be quiet! Listen… listen… I will explain everything. BLIND MEN 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6: Why? GUIDE: (gets on the elephant) Because each of you only touched a part of the elephant. The one who touched the body thought it was a wall. The one who touched the leg thought it was a tree. The one who touched the tusk imagined a spear. The one who felt the ear, thought it was a hand fan. The one who touched the trunk, remembered the snake. And the shortest one, that only could touch the tail, was sure that the elephant was like a rope. BLIND MAN 5: Now I understand. Yes, that´s what happened, and we all got angry. GUIDE: You got so angry that you started fighting with each other.