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                             Plays for school theatre

 

Objectives: to develop pupil’s memory, speaking and listening skills; to develop acting; to develop outlook; to encourage students to speak English.

                                               Cinderella

The cast:

Narrator

Stepmother

Cinderella

Stepsister 1

Stepsister  2

Fairy godmother

Prince

 

 

Scene 1  

Narrator 1:   Cinderella is a pretty girl.  She’s always happy.  She likes singing and playing with her pet cat and the mice in the kitchen.

Narrator 2:    She lives in a big house with her two sisters.  Her sisters are very ugly! 

Narrator 1:   They don’t like Cinderella, and she has to do all the work in the house.   Narrator 2:   One day Cinderella is in the kitchen.  She’s looking out of the window and singing with the birds.

Some day I will find my love.

Some day my Prince will come.

And I will know him the moment we meet

Because my heart will start skipping a beat.

And how thrilling that moment will be

When the prince of my dreams comes to me.

I will find my love some day,

Some day when my dreams come true.

Stepsisters 1 and 2:  Cinderella! Cinderella!! Come here!

Cinderella:   Here I am!

Stepsister 2:   We’ve got an invitation  to the ball at the Palace!’

Cinderella:  The ball! That’s wonderful.

Stepsister 1:   Yes! We’ll wear beautiful dresses…

Stepsister 2:   … and we’ll dance with Prince!  Cinderella, give me my white dress!

Stepsister 1:   Cinderella!  Come here and help me with my dress.  

Stepsister 2:   Cinderella!  Come here and help me with my hair.

Stepsister 1:   Cinderella!  Go and find my blue shoes.

Stepsister 2:   Cinderella!  Go and find my yellow bag.

Stepsister 1:   Cinderella!  Where’s my necklace?

Stepsister 2:   Cinderella!  Where’s my ring?

Cinderella: Here you are!

Stepmother: Cinderella, give me my pink hat and  the mirror!

Stepsister 1: Give me my handbag. Cinderella, would you like to go to the ball?

Cinderella:  To the ball? Yes, yes, but nobody will let me in.

Stepsister 2:   Ha-ha! Of course not.

Stepsister 1:    You  don’t have any beautiful dresses. You are too dirty to go there.

Stepmother: Listen, you,  lazy girl. You do nothing for the family. We will eat cakes and honey   and you will stay at home and work.

Let’s go, my girls!

 

 

Scene II

Fairy: Why are you crying, my child?

Cinderella: I can’t go to the ball. I have neither a beautiful dress, nor crystal shoes.

The Fairy Godmother waves her magic  wand.

Fairy: Now you have a beautiful dress, crystal sandals and a wonderful necklace. You look like a real princes in you golden pumpkin carriage. You will dance with Prince. 

 Now you can go to the ball Cinderella. But, you must be home before midnight.

 Cinderella:    Thank you Fairy Godmother!  Thank you!

 

Scene III

Narrator 1:   At the palace there are a lot of people.  Everyone is happy  talking and laughing and dancing.  

Stepsister 1.    Who is that beautiful Princess?

Stepsister 2:   I don’t know.  Look, Prince is dancing with her!

Narrator 1:   Prince likes Cinderella, and they dance and dance and dance all night.

 

Clock:     Dong!  Dong!  

Narrator 2:    Cinderella looks at the clock.   It’s midnight!

Cinderella:   I’m sorry but  I must go!

Prince:  Come here!  Don’t go! Please, come here.

Prince:   What’s this?  It’s the a glass shoe!  I can go to every house in the town…I can  ask every girl in the town to put on this shoe… I can find the beautiful Princess!’

 

Scene IV

Stepsister1: You know, Cinderella, there was a beautiful lady at the King’s ball. Prince was dancing with her all night.

Stepsister2: She ran home and lost her crystal shoe.

Stepmother: Prince found her crystal shoe. He is looking for her everywhere. He wants to marry her.

(Somebody knocks at the door)

Prince: May I come in? Please, try on this crystal shoe.

Stepsister 1: It’s too small for me.

Stepmother: Let me try it on. Oh, no. It is so small.

Prince: Try on this crystal shoe, girl.

Stepmother: It is our Cinderella. She has not been to the ball.

Cinderella: But I want to try it on! It’s my size! Look, I have another one.

Prince: Marry me, please.

Stepmother: We beg your pardon, Cinderella!

Narrator 2:   Prince and Cinderella have a beautiful wedding in the garden at the Palace.

Narrator 1:   All the people from the town come to the wedding.

Narrator 2:  It’s a beautiful  day and Prince and Cinderella are very happy.

 

 

 

                                                 Last Leaf

The cast:

Johnsy

Sue

Doctor

Behrman

Storyteller

 

 

ACT I

Storyteller: Many artists lived in the Greenwich Village area of New York. Two young women named Sue and Johnsy shared a studio apartment at the top of a three-story building. In November, a cold, unseen stranger came to visit the city. This disease, pneumonia, killed many people. Johnsy lay on her bed, hardly moving. She looked through the small window. She could see the side of the brick house next to her building.

Johnsy: The summer has passed so quickly. It’s a pity! I managed  to paint well in summer.

Sue: It’s quite cold now. But autumn isn’t worse than summer. It’s a wonderful season. Look at those beautiful leaves!

Storyteller: Sue and Johnsy are good friends. They are not rich? But they are young and full of dreams.

ACT II

The scene: Sue and Behrman

Sue: Something happened  to our Johnsy. She speaks less and less. Only looks at the  grey walls through the window.

Behrman: It’s troubles me much, my dear  girl. It would be better to call a doctor.

Storyteller: This is old Behrman. He is a painter too, but not very lucky and very unhappy. But he believes that one day he’ll paint his masterpiece and become famous and rich. He earned a little money by serving as a model to artists who could not pay for a professional model. He was a  little, old man who protected the two young women in the studio apartment above him.

ACT III

The scene: Sue and Doctor

Doctor: Johnsy’s life in danger. She has one chance in -- let us say ten. And that chance is for her to want to live. Your friend has made up her mind that she is not going to get well. Has she anything on her mind?

Sue:  She…she wanted to paint the Bay of Naples in Italy some day.

Doctor: Paint? Hmmm. I will do all that science can do. But whenever my patient begins to count the carriages at her funeral, I take away fifty percent from the curative power of medicines.

Sue: Oh, doctor, she refuses meal. She doesn’t speak to me.

Docor: If she doesn’t want to live, she will die.

ACT IV

The scene: Johnsy is in her bed, weak and pale; she looks through the window. Sue is at her bed.

Sue: Johnsy, my dear,  how are you?

Johnsy: … twelve, eleven…

Sue: What are you counting, Johnsy?

Johnsy: ...six… Three days ago there were almost a hundred; it made me tiredto count them. But now it is easy. Now it is only five.

Sue: Five what, dear? Tell me!

 

Johnsy: Leaves. On that vine. When the last leave falls, I must go too.

Sue: Johnsy, dear!  Will you promise me to keep your eyes closed, and not look out the window until I am done working? I must hand those drawings in by tomorrow."

Johnsy  (closing her eyes and lying ): Tell me as soon as you have finished. I want to see the last one fall. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of thinking. I want to turn loose my hold on everything, and go sailing down, down, just like one of those poor, tired leaves.

Sue: Try to sleep.I must call Mister Behrman up to be my model for my drawing of an old miner. Don't try to move until I come back.

ACT V

The scene: Behrman comes ant takes Sue away.

Behrman: Are there people in the world with the foolishness to die because leaves drop off a vine? Why do you let that silly business come in her brain?"

Sue: She is very sick and weak, and the disease has left her mind full of strange ideas.

Storyteller: The night was awful. A cold wind was blowing, mixed with snow. Sue didn’t sleep that night. She thought about Johnsy and the last leaf.

The morning came.

ACT VI

The scene: Johnsy staring at the window. Sue is near.

Johnsy: It is the last one. I thought it would surely fall during the night. I heard the wind. It will fall today and I shall die at the same time.

Sue: Dear, dear! Think of me, if you won't think of yourself. What would I do without you?!

Storyteller:  Slowly the day passed. Every minute seemed to last an hour. At the end of the day the north wind came again, it brought a cold autumn rain. In the morning the two girls looked out of the window.

Sue, Johnsy: The leaf is still here! It has taught me to fight for my life. I've been a bad girl. Something has made that last leaf stay there to show me how bad I was. It is wrong to want to die. Could you bring me a little soup now?

Sue: What a good girl! Wait.

Johnsy: One more thing! Sue, I want to paint.  I hope to paint the Bay of Naples.

ACT VII

The scene: Doctor after examining Johnsy.

Doctor:  She's out of danger. You have won. Nutrition and care now  -  that's all.

Sue: I want to tell this to Mr. Behrman. He always takes care of us.

Doctor: I believe, it’s bad news for you. He got into a hospital  with pneumonia yesterday. He was found in the morning in his room downstairs helpless with pain. His shoes and clothing were completely wet and icy cold. We could not imagine where he had been on such a terrible night.

Storyteller:  And then they found a lantern.  And they found a ladder that had been moved from its place.  And art supplies and a painting board with green and yellow colors mixed on it.

Do you see that leaf against  the wall?  It is still there. Behrman  painted  it that  night when the last leaf fell. It is a real masterpiece.