Cinderella: Every Girl Wants Options.
As a male playwright works on a traditional telling of the Cinderella story his Cinderella character challenges him and has some very different ideas about who her character is and how the story should be told.
CINDERELLA: And then Cinderella takes one of the stepsister’s dresses, and she goes to the ball, and she seduces the prince, and then she marries him and poisons him on their wedding night and becomes Queen of the Kingdom. How’s that for a fairy tale?
GODMOTHER: I don’t want to make Cinderella a homicidal maniac.
CINDERELLA: She’s not. She’s just ambitious. Like Macbeth. Only nicer.
GODMOTHER: I don’t know if the world is ready for that kind of Cinderella.
10 Minute Comedy – 1M 1W, Single Setting
CAST OF CHARACTERS
Cinderella – young, smart, and determined – dressed in rags
Fairy Godmother – tubby middle-aged man in a Fairy Godmother Costume
SETTING
A Fairy Tale Kingdom
The mind of a middle-aged male playwright writing a traditional version of Cinderella.
TIME
The Present
Festivals and Awards
2019 – Short Listed for “Women Leading: The Play’s the Thing” – Itinerant Theatre – Lake Charles, Louisiana, USA
2019 – Semi-Finalist – Pick of the Vine – Little Fish Theatre – San Pedro, California, USA
2019 – 17th Annual North Park Playwright Festival – San Diego, California, USA
