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(Cinderella's stepmother's kitchen. Cinderella is sweeping the oor and looking sad. Zippers enters.

Cinderella: I need cheering up, Zippers

Zippers: Still missing Buttons

Cinderella: A bit. It's not that though. It's..

Zippers: What

Cinderella: My stepmother's just cancelled my day off

Zippers: That's not fair

Cinderella: I'll have to work for her seven days a week now

Zippers: She's not an easy person to work for. She wants me to dig up all the plants in the garden
and rearrange them into alphabetical order

Cinderella: Will you

Zippers: I told her I didn't think I'd be able to nd the time

Cinderella: What did she say

Zippers: It would be next to the sage

Cinderella: She's horrible to me. Ever since my dad died, she's treated me like a servan
and made me dress in rags

Zippers: What happened to your father

Cinderella: Accident at work.

Zippers: What sort of accident?

Cinderella: He worked at the sweet factory. A big case of chocolate fell on him and crushed him.
He kept calling for help but every time he shouted "The Milky Bars are on me", his colleagues just
cheered.

Zippers: That's awful. I've noticed that your stepsisters are pretty mean to you as well

Cinderella: Flo and Jo? They hate me. One day I'II get away from them and all this

(Enter Flo.

Flo: (To Cinderella.) Why have you stopped work?

Cinderella: I was talking to Zippers

Flo: No need to talk to him. He's a robot

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Cinderella: Zippers can't be a robot

Flo: I'll prove it. You know robots have no sense of humour

Cinderella: Yes but.

Flo: Ask it to tell you a joke

Cinderella: Zippers. Please tell me a joke.

Zippers: What do you call a fat alien

Cinderella: I don't know. What do you call a fat alien

Zippers: An extra-cholesterol

Flo: Told you. No sense of humour whatsoever. He's a robot

(Enter Jo.

Jo: Who's a robot

Flo: Zippers. Buttons' replacement

Jo: (Closely inspecting Zippers.) He's very lifelike

Flo: Top of the range

Jo: And very good looking. (Flirtatiously to Zippers.) Are you fully functional

Flo: We don't have time for all that. We need to start getting ready for the Prince'
ball tonight. Where have you been

Jo: I got talking to that handsome young man in the newsagents

Flo: The one who trained his dog to play the trumpet on the London Underground

Jo: That's him. He said his dog went from Barking to Tooting in just over an hour. Where were
you

Flo: I went to a meeting of the Chesney Hawkes Fan Club

Jo: Any good

Flo: Very poor turnout. I was the one and only

Jo: Let's go and get dressed for the ball. Cinderella, come upstairs with us. We'r
going to need a lot of help getting ready. We want to look our absolute best. The Prince is on the
lookout for a wife and we want to look stunning so he asks one of us out.

Cinderella: s it still alright for me to come to the ball with you? I've been working my nger
to the bone making a dress to wear out of those old clothes you threw away
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Jo: You come to the ball with us? You must be joking

Cinderella: You promised

Flo: Let me see the dress you've made

(Cinderella picks up a dress from a chair and hands it to Flo. Flo holds the dress disdainfully at
arms' length and laughs at it.

Flo: You won't be coming to the ball with us tonight

Cinderella: Why not

Flo: Because..

(Flo tears the dress into shreds and drops it piece by piece onto the oor.

Flo: You don't have anything to wear. Get upstairs now and run baths for me and Jo. If they're too
hot or too cold, I'll have your guts for garters.
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