Frau Trude
Characters:
Mother
Father
Claire
Frau Trude
Black Man, Green Man, Red Man - (no dialogues)
SCRIPT:
(Claire´s mother is in the garden watering the plants, the little girl approaches her)
Claire: Have you seen my coat, mother?
Mother: It´s in your closet… where are you going?
Claire: I´m going to see Frau Trude.
Mother: What!
Claire: I said… I´m going to see the Frau Trude!
Mother: Get inside the house right now! You are not going anywhere!
Claire: Ha, ha, ha,… sure I am!
Mother: Do as I say!
Claire: No, I won´t! I have heard so much about Frau Trude that I want to meet her.
Mother: You don´t know what are you talking about!
Claire: Yes I do! People say she is a wonderful old woman, and that she has many marvelous things in her house, and I really want to see them.
(at that moment her father comes out of the house)
Father: What´s going on here! Why are you yelling!
Mother: She´s going to that old witch´s house! She wants to meet Frau Trude!
Father: I won´t let you go! Go to your room… now!
Claire: No!
Mother: Listen to me… she is an evil old woman who does wicked things.
Claire: I know that she has magical powers… that is why I want to meet her!
Father: I said no! Get inside the house!
Claire: No! Stay away from me!
(Claire runs away from her parents and goes into the woods while her mother is calling her)
Mother: Claire! Claire! Come back!
Father: It´s too late… I just hope she returns safe home. Come on, let´s get inside the house.
(they get inside the house. Meanwhile Claire is in the woods looking back at her house)
Claire: At least they didn´t follow me! Now, I have to find the witch´s house.
(Suddenly she sees a man dressed in black standing in the middle of the road. When he sees her, he hides behind the bushes)
Claire: I think I am allucinating! … I better hurry up, it´s getting dark.
(she keeps walking for a few minutes, then she sees the witch´s house)
Claire: Oh! … that must be the house. It´s so old!
(while she´s approaching the house, there´s a green man standing beside the door, the man looks at her, runs away and hides behind a tree. She looks through the window, then she knocks at the door. She hears a sweet voice coming from inside the house.)
Frau Trude: Come in… I was expecting you, Claire.
(Claire pushes the door and enters. An old woman is sitting in a rocking chair in front of the chimney.)
Claire: How did you know I was coming?
Frau Trude: Never mind that. Close the door, dear.
(Claire closes the door)
Frau Trude: Don´t stand there… come and sit over here.
(Claire sits on a chair in front of the chimney)
Frau Trude: You look so pale… are you afraid?
Claire: No!… of course not.
(Claire looks back at the door)
Claire: I just saw a green man… and I really got scared.
Frau Trude: Where?
Claire: When I was about to knock, he was standing beside the door.
Frau Trude: Ha, ha, ha…. That must have been a hunter… don´t worry!
Claire: I also saw a man dressed in black, and I was terrified!
Frau Trude: That must have been a miner… there no reason to be scared.
(Frau Trude stands up and gets near Claire.)
Claire: Oh… I also was scared by another man…. he was all red… yes… it was a red man!
Frau Trude: Ha, ha, ha… A red man?… that must have been the butcher!
(Claire stands up and gets near the chimeney)
Frau Trude: What else did you see?
Claire: Well… before I knocked, I looked through the window and I saw….
Frau Trude: Yes, darling…. What did you see?
Claire: I saw a horrible beast… right here… where I´m standing right now!
Frau Trude: Ha, ha, ha, ha….
(the old woman transforms herself into a horrible witch changing her voice tone. Claire gets scared and covers her face with her hands)
Claire: Oh No! No!
Frau Trude: Don´t be afraid, Claire… The horrible beast you saw… was me! Ha, ha, ha, ha… The real me! Ha, ha, ha, ha …
(Claire looks at her horrified)
Frau Trude: But don´t worry… I have been waiting for you for a long, long time…
Claire: Get away from me!
(Claire tries to get away but the Frau Trude grabs her by the hand)
Frau Trude: You were the one who came looking for me!
Claire: I want to go home!
Frau Trude: It´s too late! They warned you not to come… and you did anyway! Oh, poor girl… if you had only obeyed your parents… Ha, ha, ha, ha!
Claire: Let me go!
(Claire tries to get off the witch, but she can´t)
Frau Trude: Now you will give me light!
(the Frau Trude stretches her left hand and casts a spell on Claire)
Frau Trude: Avramare Clock Hood! Turn Claire into a block of wood!
(Clairs turns into a block of wood. The witch picks it up and throws it into the chimney. She sits in the rocking chair.)
Frau Trude: Ha, ha, ha, ha … How bright the block made the fire! It hasn´t burned like this for a long time! … It feels so warm! Now my powers will be stronger! Ha, ha, ha, ha!
The End
Author: Brothers Grimm
Adapted by K I D S I N C O
Moral Value: Obedience. Respect
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