Sin de Rella: The Story of How the Prince got Screwed Over
by Minako

Once again, this was for my Writer's Craft course last semester. I don't really like it all that much, but I hate writing scripts. However, other people have found it amusing, so I figured that I'd post it. The assignment was to write a parody of a fairy tale. This is my parody of the original Cinderella (as in the one written by the Grimm Brothers, not the nicey-nice Disney version)

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Scene i
Scene opens to a small room that looks as though it was once very fancy. An older woman is talking to a beautiful teenage girl. A second teenage girl looks on from the doorway, stage left. The room is light, but the curtains are drawn over the window and are to remain that way for the duration of the play. There's a chair stage right with a small table beside it.


Stepmother: Sin de Rella, what am I going to do with you? All I asked you to do was the dishes! I only asked because I'd cut my hands while chopping the wood, and your stepsister was busy picking lentils out of the ashes. Yet, they're not started, let alone finished. I don't like to punish you like this, as you are all I have left of your wonderful father, but I'm afraid I must. You will not be allowed to go to the ball tonight.

Sin de Rella: But, you can't do that to me!

Stepmother: I'm sorry, Sin de Rella, but I have to. You've been doing this for years and it's about time you grew up. I know you have led a very difficult life with the deaths of both of your parents, but that isn't an excuse not to help out around the house a little bit now. It was ten years ago, after all, and we all need to chip in a little, as we can't afford to pay for servants anymore.

Sin de Rella: You're a cruel, terrible woman, and you can't tell me what to do! You're not my mother!

Sin de Rella storms out of the room stage left, shoving the other girl out of her way. The stepmother sits down in the chair and buries her face in her hands. The second girl walks across the stage and kneels down next to her.

Stepsister: Don't cry, Mother, it isn't your fault.

Stepmother: I shouldn't be so hard on her, she's had a hard time; maybe I should let her go to the ball after all.

Stepsister: No, you've done the right thing. She should be punished or she'll spend the rest of her life being lazy like that. She needs to learn her lesson.

Stepmother: Don't be so hard on your stepsister, Sin de Rella deserves our sympathy.

Stepsister: Yes, Mother.

Exit stepsister, lights out. End scene i.

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The first two scenes are pretty short, but that's ok. Please review! Kind crits are ok, but flames make me cry.