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The skit 'Matilda: The Girl They Underestimated' is a 5-6 minute performance featuring seven characters, including Matilda and her teacher Miss Honey, who recognize Matilda's unique gifts despite her family's lack of understanding. The narrative highlights themes of knowledge, power, and self-discovery as Matilda confronts the oppressive Miss Trunchbull. Ultimately, Matilda's quiet strength leads to a transformative moment, showcasing her ability to change her circumstances and those around her.

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The skit 'Matilda: The Girl They Underestimated' is a 5-6 minute performance featuring seven characters, including Matilda and her teacher Miss Honey, who recognize Matilda's unique gifts despite her family's lack of understanding. The narrative highlights themes of knowledge, power, and self-discovery as Matilda confronts the oppressive Miss Trunchbull. Ultimately, Matilda's quiet strength leads to a transformative moment, showcasing her ability to change her circumstances and those around her.

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Matilda: The Girl They Underestimated

🎭 One-Scene Skit Based on "Matilda" by Roald Dahl

⏳ Duration: 5–6 minutes


👥 Characters: 7
📍 Setting: Wormwood Living Room

Characters
1. Narrator Vidhi

2. Matilda dhriti

3. Miss Honey jheel

4. Miss Trunchbull srishti

5. Mr. Wormwood Aadhya

6. Mrs. Wormwood Prithika

7. Bruce Bogtrotter Ajmera

Script
Narrator: In a world where brilliance was buried and kindness overlooked,
there lived a little girl… with a gift bigger than anyone could imagine.

Matilda: “The greatest power is not strength… but knowledge.”

Mr. Wormwood: For the last time, stop reading, Matilda! Go watch
something useful like horse racing!

Mrs. Wormwood: Or beauty pageants. You'll never get far with your nose
in a book.

Matilda: That’s the problem. You think loud things are smart… and quiet
things are weak.

Bruce: Hey, I’m loud and I’m not smart either. So, fair point.

Mr. Wormwood: Hey! Who let this chocolate boy into our house again?
Bruce: You did. You thought I was a plumber’s assistant.

Narrator: Matilda’s family didn’t understand her. But one person did — her
teacher.

Miss Honey: Matilda, you are gifted. Beyond books. Beyond your age. You
deserve to be somewhere you're not… just tolerated.

Mrs. Wormwood: Tolerated? We fed her! Sort of!

Matilda: Miss Honey… sometimes when I get angry… things move.

*Matilda looks at the glass on the table. It begins to tilt… slowly falls.
Everyone freezes.*

Mr. Wormwood: WITCHCRAFT!

Mrs. Wormwood: Do NOT ruin my living room decor!

Narrator: But it wasn’t fear that truly shook the room — it was *who*
entered next.

*Miss Trunchbull storms in, loud and heavy-footed.*

Miss Trunchbull: I heard yelling! That usually means a child needs


punishing!

Bruce: Or that she’s hungry.

Miss Trunchbull: WORMWOOD! You again?! First, you mouth off in class,
now you’re doing circus tricks at home?

Miss Honey: She’s not performing tricks, Miss Trunchbull. She’s…


discovering herself.

Miss Trunchbull: Ha! Children don’t get “selves.” They get rules. Painful
ones!

Matilda: You’ve hurt too many, scared too many. It ends today.

*She focuses. The lights flicker. A book lifts slightly and drops. Trunchbull
stumbles backward.*
Miss Trunchbull: This is unnatural!

Matilda: What’s unnatural is your fear of children being stronger than you.

Narrator: Power doesn’t always shout. Sometimes, it sits quietly in a


child’s heart… Until it’s time to speak.

Mrs. Wormwood: Did we… raise a superhero?

Mr. Wormwood: No. We ignored one.

Miss Trunchbull: I… I resign!

*She storms out. Bruce waves goodbye with chocolate fingers.*

Bruce: Best day ever.

Miss Honey: You’re safe now. And if you’ll have me… I’d like to be your
real family.

Matilda: I’d like that very much.

Narrator: She wasn’t big. She wasn’t loud. But Matilda’s voice… changed
everything.

*Matilda: “I believed in my mind.”


Miss Honey: “I believed in her.”
Bruce: “I believed in chocolate. And her.”
Mrs. Wormwood: “I was too busy with mascara.”
Mr. Wormwood: “I was too busy being wrong.”
Miss Trunchbull (offstage): “I QUIT!”
Narrator: “She was just a girl. But the world had to change to keep up with
her.”*

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