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Rapunzel Drama Script
Rapunzel Drama Script
Drama Script:
Title
: Rapunzel
The characters
1. Woman
2. Man
3. Witch
4. Rapunzel
5. Prince
Time
Setting
Narrator
: A long time ago, a husband and wife lived happily in a cottage at the edge of a wood.
But one day the wife fell ill. She could eat nothing and grew thinner and thinner.
Woman
: My darling, I have a strong desire of a salad made from that plant. If I dont eat it now,
Narrator
: At midnight , the husband climbed the wall into the garden of the witch and started
Narrator
: The man took the rampion and his wife made a salad of it and ate it. It tasted so good to
her, that the next day she ate three times as much as before. So her husband knew that he must
once more go into the garden.
Man
Narrator
: When he had the rampion in his hands, he saw the terrible witch standing before him.
Dame Gothel : How do you dare, come into my garden and steal my rampion like a thief! You will
suffer for it!
Man
: Oh, please forgive me! My wife saw your rampion from the window, and she wanted
it so bad, that she would have died if she didnt have some to eat.
Dame Gothel : If youre telling me the truth, I will let you take with you as much rampion as you
want only I make one condition you must give me the child which your wife will bring into
the world; it shall be well treated, and I will care for it like a mother.
Narrator
: The man in his terror consented to everything. When the baby was born, the witch
appeared, gave the child the name of Rapunzel, and took it away with her.
Dame Gothel : Ha, ha, ha,ha.....
Narrator
: Rapunzel grew into a beautiful child under the sun, she played in the woods and took
Narrator
: When she was twelve years old, the witch shut her into a tower in the middle of a
forest. The tower had neither stairs nor door, but near the top was a little window. When the
witch wanted to go in, she placed herself beneath it.
Dame Gothel : Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair to me.
Rapunzel
: Yes, let me unfasten my braided tresses so that you can climb up.
Narrator
: After a year or two, the kings son was walking in the forest when he heard a song,
Prince
Narrator
: The lovely voice came from Rapunzels tower. The kings son wanted to climb up to
her, and looked for the door of the tower, but none was to be found.
Prince
: Now what shall I do? Theres no way of climbing up. There are no stairs and no
doors.
Narrator
: He went back home, but the singing had touched his heart, that every day he went out
into the forest and listened to it. One day he was standing behind a tree, when he saw the witch
coming, and he heard what she said.
Dame Gothel : Rapunzel, Rapunzel! Let down your hair to me.
Narrator
: Then Rapunzel let down the braids of her hair, and the witch climbed up to her.
Prince
: So thats the way I can climb to the tower! I will do the same.
Narrator
: The next day when it began to grow dark, he went to the tower.
Prince
Narrator
: Immediately the hair fell down and the kings son climbed up.
Rapunzel
Prince
: Darling, my heart is yours. I have never seen anybody as beautiful as you. Will you
marry me? Will you be my wife and live with me in my kingdom?
Rapunzel
Prince
: Then it is settled. Well get marry right away! Just let down your hair and lets go.
Rapunzel
: I will go away with you, but I do not know how to get down. If I get down my hair,
Rapunzel
Prince
Narrator
: When the kings son was getting down, the witch was already there, and said.
Dame Gothel : Uhh, you have come to take Rapunzel! Now you will never see her again!
Ha,ha,ha,ha!
Narrator
: The witch cast a spell on the prince and he wondered in the woods, without seeing a
thing and eating only plants, roots, and berries. Meanwhile, in the tower.
Dame Gothel : Ah! you wicked child! I thought I separated you from the world, and yet you have
deceived me!, and just for that I will cut your beautiful hair!
Narrator
: In her anger the witch cut Rapunzels beautiful tresses. Then she took her into a desert
where she had to live in great grief and misery. Meanwhile. the prince roamed about in misery
for two years, and finally, he got to the desert where Rapunzel, with the twins to which she had
given birth, a boy and a girl, lived in poverty.
Prince
Narrator
Rapunzel
Narrator
: Two of her tears wetted his eyes and they grew clear again, and he could see with them
as before.
Prince
: I can see again! Oh my sweet Rapunzel, what have they done to us! Lets go to my
kingdom now.
Narrator
: He took her to his kingdom where they were joyfully received, and they lived happily
ever after.