Infomaniacs Drama Club

Author: Radu Luchian
Characters:
1)Cinderella (Cindy) - Oana Lupascu
2)Cinderella’s sister (Sister) - Adelina Rosca
3)The Fairy Godfather (GF) - Dan Apavaloaie
4)Charlie Manson (Boyfriend) - Marius Gavril
5)Cienderella’s date (Guy) - Alexandru Girigan
6)The Presentor - Radu Luchian
Number of scenes: 06
Starting date: 01.01.2005
Finishing date: 02.01.2005

ACT I
Scene 1

Intro: “You’ve all problably heard about Cinderella. About the glass shoe, the prince and all that shananagins. But it’s all wrong!!! Well I’ll fill you in on the real story. The guy who’s said to have written this story actually travelled through time to our days, and, as he returned home, he wrote all things he had witnessed down in a diary. A servant of his got hand of the diary, published a fact from it and got to be known as the author of Cinderella. Now… this girl… Cinderella, as she was called, was in fact a teenage girl, younger daughter of a mob chief who had to leave the country in order to attend some business, if you know what I mean! (he smiles) So Cinderella got stuck with her older sister…”

Scene 2

Sister: “Hey you! What are you sniffing there? Better not be drugs!”

*she addresses to Cinderella

Cindy: “Huh? What? Nothing… nothing at all! Whay do you ask?”
Sister: “Come clean, I saw you!”
Cindy: “OK, OK, I was doing some powdered sugar, that’s all. Ya’ know how I like sweets, right?”
Sister: “Hmmm… Yeah!?!… but why were you sniffing it?”
Cindy: “Well I had my tonsels removed so I can’t eat for a week, nice way of keeping myself slim If I may say so. I’m all over with fitness.”
Sister: “Listen: make sure you clean up round here. My boyfriend is due to arrive anytime now, to take me to the disco…“
Cindy: “Oh goody, maybe I could…”
Sister: “By the way, you’re not invited! Plus… you have to stay home and do my homework.”

*sister leaves the stage with a sort of satisfaction laughter

Cindy: “Oh f***, ahh… sorry, I meant to say: Oh poopy, I would have loved to go to the disco… (she moans) Well I’d better get to work.”

*as she starts working, her sister’s botfriend arrives

Scene 3

Boyfriend: “Hello there! The name’s Ripper, Jack The Ripper. You must be my date!”
Cindy: “Oh shucks, no… Youmust be talking about mysister; she’ll be here in a moment.”
Boyfriend: “Kinda’ strange these blind dates; don’t you think so? I don’t even know her real name, I only know her nickname from the chat. ”
Cindy: “ And what was that?”
Boyfriend: “ Chat!!!”
Cindy: “ No… The nickname!”
Boyfriend: “ Yes, the nickname was Chat! OK?”
Cindy: “Oh,OK… not to worry, I don’t know her name either. I just call her Sister.”
Sister: “Hey there, I’m Sister! Shall we go now?”
Boyfriend: “ I don’t know… shall we? Is this like a trick question or something?”

*he starts getting nervous

Sister: “What an idiot! (she whispers) Let’s go…”

*they both leave the stage, Cinderella remaining alone

ACT II
Scene 1

Cindy: “Oh buhuhu, I work and I slave, and what thanks do I get? I wish I were dead!”

*suddenly a fairy dude apears on the stage

GF: ”Hey! Stop it… I hate seing a dame crying.”
Cindy: “ Are you my fairy godmother?”
GF: “What do I look like? A woman? OF COURSE NOT!!! I’m your fairy godfather, I run the business down here.”
Cindy: “Oh, sorry, I didn’t know.”
GF: “Of course you did’t, you wouldn’t dare to mess with me.”
Cindy: “Ahhh… yeah…”
GF: “Listen: here’s a new passport, new I.D., 10.000$, a one way ticket to Mexico, and from now on you’ll be known as Cindy Crawford, now get going…”
Cindy: “ Wait a minute! What’s all this for?”
GF: “Don’t tell me you’re not the one who killed Kennedy!”
Cindy: “But I’m not, I wouldn’t hurt a fly. Pluss, that happened a long time ago!”
GF: “ Damn watch! Never works, shouldn’t have staid so long at that cocktail party, but Snow White was giving free blow***, ahhh…, nevermind.”
Cindy: “ Hmmm…, I see!?!”
GF: “Sorry, my fault, must be the wrong address. Ain’t getting’ any younger you know. I think I troubled you enough. I’m off…”
Cindy: “Wait! You can still help me.”
GF: “What can an old mob head do for a little girl?”
Cindy: “Well… I have a small list here…”

*pulls out a huge papyrus, like an enourmus shopping list

Cindy: “I need: a cool dress, a tuned BMW and an invitation to the coolest disco in town.”
GF: “Hmmm… Let’s make it a pair of jeans, a T-shirt, an old Wolswagen Beetle and 2 bucks ($). Deal?”
Cindy: “I don’t know!”
GF: “Fine make it 3 bucks ($).”
Cindy:“Deal! And I still get to be known as Cindy Crawford!”

*they shake hands and Cindy leaves for the disco.As she arrives she notices one of her leather snicker is missing so she goes back home

*a guy comes to her house, knocking on the door

ACT III
Scene 1

Guy:“Hey miss! I got your slipper…”
Cindy:“Thanks, actually that’s a snicker. I was getting worried, I wanted to place a reward for it, do you know that’s an original Nike Sniker? Thanks a lot! I ow ya’ one buddy…”
Guy: “Well actually the name’s Guy!”
Cindy: “Did you you say Gay???”
Guy: “NO!!! I said GUY.”
Cindy: “Oh, ok, I’m Cinderella, you can call me Cindy…”
Guy: “That’s ok I’ll call you Cinderella.”

*Cindy pulls out a knife

Cindy: “I insisst. Call me Cindy.”
Guy: “Oh… ha ha… OK… So don’t I get that reward you were talking about earlier? You know?”
Cindy: “Oh I know all right. You men are all the same; first you bring me my snicker, then you ask me out, I suppose next you’ll be wanting me to put you down in my will. But since I’ve never had a date: shure, the reward is a date with yours truely, ME.”
Guy: “So when are you free?”
Cindy: “Today, Tomorrow, Toyota, I mean all time…”
Guy: “OK then. Let’s go!”
Cindy: “At last I met my prince charming. Even if he isn’t so charming…”

*she gives GF a signs with her hand like a thanks

Scene 2

GF: “Now there goes one satisfied customer! Well, better go find a cure for AIDS. This whole good deed doing business started to get to me.”

*he leaves the stage and The Presentor enters the stage

Extro: “That my friend was the inside story of Cinderella and her snicker. On cold nights, you can still find her roaming the streets of Beverly Hills in her new BMW convertible. She got a good deal with GF, no doubt. Who said crime does’t pay? Actually it doesn’t: the GF went to jail and Cinderella had a car accident and is now in the hospital. You’ve been a great audiencd. Thanks for listening my side of the story. Good day!”

Trust no one. Question Everything. - Deus Ex