Rapunzel

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Length: about 8 minutes. In rhyming couplets, with opportunities for audience participation.

This is the story from Grimm's Fairy Tales about the girl with absurdly long hair.

A sick woman has an unbearable craving for a lettuce. Her husband steals a lettuce from a garden, not realising that the garden belongs to a witch. The Witch allows him to take the lettuce – on condition that he gives the Witch the baby which his wife is expecting.

A few months later, the Witch takes the baby girl and locks her up in a high tower. As the girl grows up, her hair is never cut and becomes so long that the Witch climbs up the hair to get into the tower.

Then a handsome Prince arrives. All is set for a happy ending. But things don't go quite as expected.

A story with a moral!

Script Extract:

Prince: Her radiance and her beauty stuns.

One cannot wait to make her one’s.

But how is one to climb up there?

Rapunzel: Stand still, sir. I’ll throw down my hair.

Prince: Throw down your hair? What could be madder?

Rapunzel: You silly boy! It’s like a ladder!

Just cling on tightly to a plait.

And don’t let go – or you’ll go splat!

This script has been performed in the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia.