THE STORYTELLER SAPSORROW

SAPSORROW

CHARACTERS

The storyteller: he is the narrator of the story. Natura (Sapsorrow): the good princess who converted in Sapsorrow for her bad luck. The Prince: he is a proud and smug person. But he fell in love of Sapsorrow The king: who have 3 daughters and he looks for a wife for himself. Bad sister 1 and 2: they are the sisters of Natura. Minister: Prince's assistant Servants 1 and 2: they work in the princes castle Dog: its the pet of the Storyteller, it can talk

IntroductionWhen people told themselves their past with stories, explained their present with stories, foretold the future with stories, the best place by the fire was kept forthe Storyteller.ACT 1: IN THE KINGS CASTLEStoryteller: Beginning as I do at the beginning, and starting as I must at the start, let me show you of fate to the round of this ring. The girl whose finger fits the ring, she'll become Queen; the law decrees it. What a lucky girl, you might think.Oh no. A King had three daughters. Two were bad, one was good. His girls were growing up, soon there would be suitors, and soon the place would be empty. And his thoughts turned to his old age, to his loneliness.King: I must find a wife to comfort meStoryteller: he unlocked the little box in which he kept the wedding ring, passed on from Queen to Queen, finger to finger, since any could remember. Only when the ring fits can the King marry.Minister: She who wishes to wed our King must come forward and try the ring.(In other place in the palace)Bad sister 2: he can't do thatBad sister 1: he is too old for to getting married, he is dying in shortly.Natura: but I don't think is too oldBad sister 1: what is she whispering?Bad sister 2: I know what will happen. A Harpy will appear, she will put the ring in her finger and it will fit, dad will die and she will inherit all. Thats what will happenStoryteller: while their horror will increase to her new stepmother, they were bad with Natura. When the king decided to marry, the wounded her, insulted her, blamed her, tormented her, and made her go hungry.Bad sister 1 and 2: you are so fat.Storyteller: they stole thatDog: oh! Those evil sistersStoryteller: thats right. But they won't count with the sister's friends the creatures that lived in her pockets, in everywhere. Whenever she went to her room, she would find berries and all kinds of nuts and fruits, delicious things.Bad sister 1: we miss you!!Bad sister 2: we cried every night! Your eyes look them sad. Are they?Bad sister 1: didn't you find wife?King: the ring didnt fit is tightBad sister 2: Fate!Bad sister 1: not intendedKing: Maybe, I dont knowBad sister 2: you dont need a wifeBad sister 1: with us, isnt it enough?King: I know it, I know it! Where is your sister?Bad sister 2: I dont know.Bad sister 1: she is seducing the guards, eating like a wild.Minister: ready! Whos next?Bad sister 2: sooner or later there will have one, is disgusting.Bad sister 1: We could be Queens, together.Bad sister 2: I know itBad sister 1: And if the ring will fit to you? Or to me? Minister: its enough for today.Bad sister 1: its too lateBad sister 2: cant they control these women? Get them out of here. He wouldn't want to marry us if the ring fit, but then he can't marry anybody! Dont you see it?Bad sister 1: That's even better!Bad sister 2: lets go.Bad sister 1: Look, it's useless. If you try with your fat fingers? Bad sister 2: I have not. It's stuck. I cant get it out. You do somethingBad sister 1: It's totally stuck.Bad sister 2: Look! It's turning purple, Do something!"Natura: can I help?Bad sister 1: go away! Go!Bad sister 2: Let her do it. She's better at these things than you are. Amah!!King: hello? Everybody is alright? What was all that screaming?Bad sister 2: screaming? Daddy?Bad sister 1: Pick it up!Storyteller: Then Nature do something that she will lament always, she obey her sister, ooh God she fold the knees and ooh God, pick up the royal Ring and for taking care it, the ring put in her finger.Dog: Noooooo!Storyteller: I knowFather: Where is the royal Ring?Bad sister 1: She had it father.Bad sister 2: We dont wanted spy.Dog: It isnt true.Bad sister 2: You dont be in the middle.Natura: It isnt true.Dog: This isnt fair.King: Nooooo, No in your ring finger.ACT 2: IN THE BEDROOM OF NATURAStoryteller: The royal ring adjusts her, and the notice arrived to the palace, and she is the chosen.Natura: I cant marry with my father.Storyteller: You cant disregard the law.Natura: But I cant disregard the law.Storyteller: You cant marry with my father.Natura: But I cant refuse the king.Storyteller: You cant marry with my father.Natura: But the royal ring.Storyteller: Is the royal ring.Minister: Sir is the law of the kingdom, the ring to fit in the finger of your daughter; you must marry with your daughter.Natura: Then I will cut my finger.King: Why did you play with it, why you do it? The wedding when will be.Minister: Its will be when the preparations are ready.Natura: I want a dress of the more pale silk, of the color of the moon, I wont marry until that I have it.Minister: Its good that dress will be in here.Storyteller: The princess in her sorrow, get a plan, the dress will last a lot time while you help me, she said to the animals.Natura: Its wonderful.Minister: Thanks you.Natura: Now I need a dress of radiant silver like the stars, for the day of the wedding Minister: King says me where will I find it?King: You do that she wants, everything in silver like the stars Storyteller: So the kings minister travel to all the country for the dress, but Nature was in her room, other dress that they did, was magic.Natura: Its wonderful like that the stars.Minister: Sir the people are impatient.King: Daughter?Nature: This dress will be for the banquet the other dress will be for the procession, now I want one for the church; of pure gold, of solar gold, you take the dress and one day after I will marry.Minister: Solar gold, gold you said, bring the dress and one day after she will marry.Bad sister 1: But what presumptuous.Storyteller: And while the tailors were doing the dress, Nature was finishing her plan with the help of the animals.Minister: Prince?Natura: Yes.Minister: I have a dress something that never anybody saw, its gold and radiant, it was woven for a lot tailors.Natura: Its just that I ordered, and is similar like the sun, we will marry us tomorrow.King: We must.. Marryus.tomorrow.Dog: They cant marry.Storyteller: Well the law is mandated, Nature has the dress that she ordered, the ring adjusted, they are going to marry tomorrow, and the bells are ringing; only Nature stays silence in the room.Minister: my highness comes out; the king awaits you (the Minister ordered the door to be charged down)Storyteller: yes, its sapsorrow a strange thing fur and feathers, that has been the secret work of many days week. This creature, there is the sad princess there is escalating, fading the past, her future, who knows.ACT 3: IN THE KITCHEN OF ANOTHER CASTLEStoryteller: two years later, the poor creature fur and feathers worked in another castle and cleaned boilers and the kitchen tooDog: is the princessStoryteller: A Princess of slobs. A Princess of peelings. A Princess of the Kitchen Floor certainly. And one day this Princess met a Prince....Prince: cook!! Where is the cook? You know?Natura (sapsorrow): mm, mmPrince: you dont know. Can you speak? No matter, give him a message. Tonight there will be a dance at the palace, I saw the menu and I would like a duck. You know as I like it? Roast duck with orange baked in cider. What's that look?Natura (sapsorrow): It's a look. If there was a tax on looking, we'd all be beggars, sirePrince: whats your name?Natura (sapsorrow): none, they call me the sapsorrowPrince: well, miss sapsorrow, you dont stare the princess, its not polite in one so low or ugly. You are so ugly.Natura (sapsorrow): Why eat ducks? They don't harm youPrince: Because I like ducks.Natura (sapsorrow): So do me. That's why I don't eat themPrince: Pass on my message. And take that for your manners. (He kicks her) Roast duck in cider. A dozen.ACT 4: IN THE DANCEStoryteller: That night they sat, the ducks, twelve cold stares on the Royal table, while around them many danced, many daughters wore their mothers' pearls. And the Prince was there, handsome, admired, and separate. So that night parents looked on and hoped. But the Prince stood and smiled but did not dance. Until late, unannounced, mysterious, a woman entered in a dazzling gown, pale silk, like the moon. And what could he do, the Prince, but walk toward her? What could he do but lead her to the floor? And they danced. It was meant. As left to right, morning to night, dark to light, they belonged. But when the music stoppedPrince: wait!! Wait!! I dont know your name. Wait!!Storyteller: oh my dears, the princess left the prince mystified, excited, tingling. He was captivated without hope(IN THE KITCHEN)Servant 1: Prince called down for clean towels.Servant 2: where are all?Servant 1: upstairs, drop busy, the second dance is soon. Barely had we rested the last month Servant 2: wait!! Thing! You will go(Sapsorrow knock the princes door)Natura (sapsorrow): you asked for clean towelsPrince: I hope that are cleanNatura (sapsorrow): Im sorry. Do I disgust you?Prince: You amaze me! Look. Cats chase mice, hens lay eggsNatura (sapsorrow): And what does that mean?Prince: It means some things have to do with other things; I have nothing to do with you. You don't disgust me, because I don't think about you.Natura (sapsorrow): I seePrince: now, go away, and stay on down there. Dont look me sapsorrowStoryteller: he can't see for the feathers, he cant see for the furs. That night, the second Ball, beauties come and beauties go, dances danced, but the Prince stood alone, hoping, staring at the great doors but nothing, no sign. Then shuuu! Silence a dividing of the room, and there she is in a dress of sparkling silver. Like the stars in the night sky. In a moment they were dancing. Natura (Sapsorrow): I must goPrince: Please do not! I only think of youNatura (Sapsorrow): I dont believe thisPrince: this is true I cannot sleep. Where do you live that I might find you?Natura: I live where hens catch mice and cats lay eggsPrince: What? Please dont go.(Outside the palace)Natura (Sapsorrow): What happens?Prince: what? No one, no one in the whole palace, in the whole kingdom, talks to me like this!Natura (Sapsorrow): You must forgive me, you looked so sad; I wondered if I could help.Prince: You can'tNatura (Sapsorrow): Are you in love? Is that it? Or are you worried that you only love you sweetheart for her beautiful gown?Prince: Were she in the humblest rags, where she the poorest creature...For, you see, my darling has eyes like...They're perfect. She has a voice like...It's perfect. Well, how can I expect you to understand?Natura (Sapsorrow): Then you should marry herPrince: I want to! I want to, but I can't find her....Natura (Sapsorrow): I see, I have a problem like yours, what advice would you give me?Prince: Well, I don't know your beau. What's he like?Natura (Sapsorrow): Handsome ... rich...Prince: Really? Natura (Sapsorrow): And proud, But, you see, when I think about him, it makes my head hurt and my tummy ache and my skin tingles and my heart do little summersaults.Prince: Me too! Me too! Oh yes! We're in love and its terrible.Natura (Sapsorrow): I don't think I'm in lovePrince: Yes, You're definitely in love. Little summersaults? Tingling skin? Definitely.Servant 1: Sapsorrow! Sapsorrow! Where the devil have you gone to?Natura (Sapsorrow): I have to go Prince: Listen; dont tell anyone we've spoken.Natura (Sapsorrow): As you wishPrince: It's just, you know, Prince andServant: Sapsorrow!Natura (Sapsorrow): Prince and Sapsorrow...Storyteller: Oh yes, the Prince was lovesick all right. Even before dark, he was ready, tense and distracted on the terrace in front of the ballroom, for there was to be a third Ball that very evening.Prince: Tonight, I'll see my love tonight.Servant 1: She hasnt arrived yet and its the lastNatura (Sapsorrow): can I have them, please?Servant 1: What's the hurry? Meeting a sweetheart?Natura (Sapsorrow): MaybeServant 1: That's why the Prince is still waiting! She hasn't finished the dishes! (And all laughing) (They have a meeting and dance)Servant 2: He's there, poor love, He hasn't even gone insideStoryteller: Its wonderful, But bells toll. Evenings end. As the clocks chimed the midnight, the Princess turned and hurried off. The Prince watched, hopeless, distracted, and looked down at the terrace. At his feet was a golden slipper. He picked it up and held it to his trembling heart. The next day a proclamation disclosed in the palaceDog: The Prince will marry the girl whose foot will fit the golden slipper.Storyteller: well, she thinks, if I was unhappy for a finger could be happy for a foot, his tragedy was the ring, and the slipper will be your blessing Servant 1: It fits nobody. Its too small for allServant 2: I might try. You never knowServant 1: but if you have enormous feet Servant 2: it's not truth. What about out little beauty? Will you try?Natura (Sapsorrow): I mightACT 5: THE SLIPPERStoryteller: And so up she goes, and would you believe it, whom did she see pressing her foot into the royal slipper? Bad sister 1: now IBad sister 2: Clearly, your foot wont fit it; my feet are smaller than yours. I did! It has entered!Prince: It is absurd. Its impossible Bad sister 2: I claim the right to marry with the princeMinister: According to the proclamation. The Prince must marry the woman who can wear the golden slipper. The woman has now come forward.Bad sister 2: the princess Bad Sister.Minister: the princess Bad Sister. From? Bad sister 2: from Faraway.Minister: From Faraway daughter of?Bad sister 2: oh! Nobody. We dont have parents to see. Mummy died a long time ago and Daddy last yearBad sister 1: He was ancientMinister: Princess Bad sister, from Faraway, daughter of nobody. She will marry the Prince tomorrow!Bad sister 2: Now. Can I extract this silly slipper?Prince: Why?Bad sister 2: Because it doesnt combine with my garment and the height is a bit small. Oh my God maybe I prefer an escalation. Sister! Think you can withdraw this adorable slipper of my beautiful foot? Because if not I will scream very strong in a few moments and I think that it is turning purpleTake away me it right now! Take away sister take away!! (Scream) Natura (Sapsorrow): Mr. I claim my right to try de slipper.Bad sister 1: Only the ladies do it and not the beasts.Bad sister 2: What is that? Get her out of here quickly! Quickly!Prince: She names Sapsorrow.Natura (Sapsorrow): So May I?Prince: Try it.Bad sister 1: This enters.Bad sister 2: It cant be.Natura (Sapsorrow): It fits . Could you keep your promise?Bad sister 1: This is ridiculous you cannot marry her.Prince: Yes, I marry you.I keep my promise.(Sapsorrow transformed)Bad sisters 1 and 2: OH Natura!Prince: My princes! You are!Narrator: "Darling, darling," they repeated to each other. "Dearest, dearest." And what the Prince didn't know he did very soon did. They talked and talked, explaining this, explaining that: stories of rings, stories of fur and feathers. And they wept for her dear father smiled for poor sapsorrow, forgave the Bad Sisters, and danced for a day without going away. And... And after all that, they were so out of breath they lay down and slept...and glory be: if they didn't wake soon, they'll never get wed!

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