SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN
DWARFS
(re-arranged for chamber
theatre by jcogtas)
CHARACTERS:
Queen, Mirror, Snow White, Prince, 7Dwarfs (12)
QUEEN:
"I'm the Queen. I'm beautiful. (to the audience) Don't you think I'm
beautiful? And I'm wicked. No one is more beautiful and more wicked than I am. (to her Mirror) Right?
MIRROR:
The Mirror replies, "Yes, Oh Repulsive and Ravishing Queen."
QUEEN:
Gratified, she smirks with pleasure.
MIRROR:
The mirror addresses the Queen as 'Oh, Loathsome One,' or 'Oh, Beautiful and
Hateful
One'
. . . He stammers to tell her that: “My beautiful, my loathsome”
QUEEN:
She got irritated with the stammer, “Cut to the chase, will you?”
MIRROR:
Snow White is still the fairest of all!, he trembled in fear…
QUEEN:
The queen grows furious, she barely says a word in a few seconds then she
regains her
composure.
“I’ll take care of the matter, I vowed to rid myself of Miss goody-goody
Snow White.” She transforms herself into
an old beggar woman, and tricks Snow White into biting into a poison apple.
DWARFS:
As she gloated over her sleeping victim, the dwarfs arrived. Gathering around
the Queen, they force her to take a bite of her poison apple, cheering when she
cries:
QUEEN:
"What have you done? This means I'll be an old hag forever!" then she
runs off.
DWARFS: They gather around Snow White, sobbing.
PRINCE:
But then her Prince arrives and awakens her. “Wake up my beloved, hear my
voice”
SNOW
WHITE: She took a deep breath then slowly opened her eyes and saw a handsome
sight.
“It’s
you!”, she stood up and bow to the prince then she looked at him
PRINCE
AND SNOWHITE: They look into each other’s eyes.
PRINCE:
Then the prince holds her hand, “Come with me to my kingdom and I’ll be yours
forever; to serve you and to love you”, the prince begs on bended knees
SNOW
WHITE: Snow White holds his hand, looks him in the eyes and gives him a sweet smile. She motions him to stand up, “There is no need to
beg. I am yours forever: to serve you and
to love you.”
DWARFS:
Smiling through tears of joy, the Dwarfs wave goodbye as Snow White and her
Prince
go
off together to his kingdom. “They lived happily ever after.”
DISCLAIMER
The dialogue is not mine.
I found the script intended for reader's theatre
which I can't trace where I found it since it has been
quite some time now. This is just a remake for the
purpose of my students' performance activity.
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