Cinders & Ashes Script

An original radio drama by

Claire Allan

CAST

Drizella Rosina Blake

Rapunzel Claire Allan
Jack Frost Owen Riseley

Cinders & Ashes

SCENE ONE: Int. Caf.

Drizella opens caf door, walks in to see Rapunzel sitting at a

table. Sound of people talking in background, cups being set on
table, coffee machines etc.

Drizella: Oh. My GOD! Rapunzel!!

Rapunzel jumps out of her chair. Sound of chair quickly scraping the
floor

Rapunzel: Drizella!
Two characters hug

Drizella: (Excitedly) It is SO good to see you! I cant believe

youre really standing here!

Rapunzel: I know right! It has been a CRAZY 10 years but it IS good

to be back.
Two characters sit down. Chairs scrape the floor

Drizella: (Shocked) Are you kidding me? You were KIDNAPPED for all
that time, talk about crazy!
Rapunzel: It sounds worse when you say it like that. I mean she
treated me like her daughter its not like I was held hostage or
anything.
Drizella: Still. I have really missed you!
Rapunzel: Well, the least you can do is fill me in on whats been
happening since Ive been away.
Drizella: Well where the hell do I begin! (Pause) So my mum married
again. Eurgh.
Rapunzel: (Shocked) No way! You dont sound too thrilled about that.
Drizella: (Miserable) I mean my step dads great. Its his daughter
thats the problem.
Rapunzel: Oh really? How come?
Drizella: Well, her name is Cinderella for starters. I mean what
kind of name is that?
Rapunzel: I dont know, I think its quite pretty.
Drizella: (Scoffs) Erm no. Anyway, she is the BIGGEST brat I have
ever ever encountered, her daddy buys her just about anything she
wants and he rarely gets anything in return.
Rapunzel: Well, sometimes thats just how families work!
Drizella: Oh come on Rapunzel! Anyway, shes basically convinced the
whole of Frell College that my sister, my mum and I make her life
hell.
Rapunzel: (Surprised) What?!
Drizella: Yeah! She posts all sorts of tweets and Instagram posts
claiming we treat her like a slave!
Rapunzel: Is it true?
Drizella: (Angrily) No of course its not! Shes making the whole
thing up for attention! Its disgusting!
Rapunzel: How does she get away with it?
Drizella: Everyone believes her. The whole school has it out for me
and Anastasia, calling us the ugly step sisters
Rapunzel: (Sympathetically) Thats awful! Youre not ugly!
Drizella: (sighs) I know. But unfortunately Cinderella looks like
Taylor Swift mixed with Lily James.
Rapunzel: Oh. I see.
Drizella: Oh and also, because of this bullshit, Prince Charming has
now fallen at her feet and the two of them are actually dating.
Rapunzel: Whos Prince Charming?
Drizella: Oh my god, I forgot youve been away THAT long. Hes only
the fittest and most popular guy in the whole of Arrendale High.
Rapunzel: But arent Frell College and Arrendale High supposed to be
rival schools?
Drizella: Well not since Prince and Cinderella have been a thing.
Rapunzel: Oh.
Drizella: I mean, Prince isnt even that hot anyway. He only got
popular because he was the only boy in the school who played
football professionally, but he dropped out once he became Instagram
famous.
Rapunzel: Instagram famous?
Drizella: (sighs) Eurgh. Basically he has over 10,000 followers.
Rapunzel: (Shocked) Wow! Thats a lot of people!
Drizella: Yeah. And with Cinderella dating him AND creating this
poor innocent helpless persona shes fast approaching just as many
followers.
Rapunzel: Im still confused on how this has happened.
Drizella: Honestly, Me too. Shes delusional! She posts every day
about how hard her life is and how we make her do all the chores,
make dinner, clean the house, do our coursework and expect her to
get top grades. Its ridiculous.
Rapunzel: (Doubtful) What on earth made her want to do this?
Drizella: She is so used to being daddys girl at home, as soon as
the attention is even slightly taken away from her she cant handle
it! And also her desperation to be the Queen Bee of Frell College
has turned her completely insane.
Rapunzel: That cannot have a good effect on you.
Drizella. Literally. Everyone at school thinks Anastasia and I are
monsters. Everybody hates us and its all because of her. Worst of
all she loves it!
Waitress: (Bored) Hi Girls. Can I take your order?
Drizella: Hi, yeah. Ill have a skinny 2 shot soy latte please.
Waitress: Cool, and you?
Rapunzel: Ermmm, I guess Ill have what shes having.
Drizella: Never had coffee huh?
Rapunzel: Nope
Drizella: Christ. Well that is what happens when youre NEVER LET
OUTSIDE!
Rapunzel: (Offended) Hey I was allowed in the garden!
Drizella: That really doesnt count Rapunzel.
Rapunzel: Anyway, Whats your mother saying about all this?
Drizella: Its impossible to even try and convince her or my stepdad
that Cinderella is a total psycho, she acts so lovely and innocent
in front of them, their sure she wouldnt hurt a fly.
Rapunzel: (Shocked) Thats utterly outrageous! Does her boyfriend
know shes lying?
Drizella: What Prince? She plays an extremely clever game with that
boy. Every time he comes to the house she makes sure everyone is
out. Im pretty sure shes told him that shes forbidden to have a
boyfriend so he must only come round when no one is home.
Rapunzel: Poor guy.
Drizella: Well what he doesnt know cant hurt him. Were the ones
suffering!

(Pause)
Sound of caf in background.
Drizella: (sighs) Eurgh I am so sick of it, but I have run out of
ways to try and convince the world that Im not the bad guy!
Rapunzel: Have you tried everything?
Drizella: Literally. I have tried taking photos of her at home to
prove she isnt mistreated, everyone just thinks Ive set them up.
Ironic huh?
Rapunzel: You betcha.
Drizella: (Laughs) No one says you betcha anymore.
Rapunzel: Sorry. I was only really allowed to watch Disney films so
I am a bit behind on modern lingo.
Drizella: Its okay! Youll get used to it. Anyway, Ive invited
people round to my house to see that shes fine, but no one even
wants to be friends with me!
Rapunzel: I cant believe this has happened to you! I feel awful!
Drizella: Dont feel awful Rapunzel, I mean I think youve had it
worse.
Rapunzel: I guess, but Im lucky Ive come back to incredibly loving
parents and brother.
Drizella: (Curious) bYou have a brother?
Rapunzel: Yeah! I mean hes a half-brother really. He only came to
live with us when I returned home.
(Sound of phone going off. Tweet)
Drizella: Oooh! Shes just tweeted again! Oh my God lets see what
she has to say weve done now.
(Pause)
Drizella: Just finished my looooong day of college, so ready for
bed! Shame I have to cook dinner, wash the dishes and make the beds.
Sad face, hashtag exhausted.
Rapunzel: Well, maybe she will do those things
Drizella: Rapunzel. Come on.
Rapunzel: Sorry.
Drizella: She is so annoying! Look, its had 20 retweets already!
All nave idiots who actually believe her. (Pause) Oh my god, one
girls even quote tweeted it and tagged The Samaritans twitter page.
This is so stupid.
Rapunzel: I dont really know anything about this Twitter thing but
that doesnt sound good.
Drizella: Anyway, Im sorry Rapunzel what were you saying about your
brother?
Rapunzel: Half-brother. Erm yeah I was just saying that hes living
with us now, hes really great at helping me settle back into my old
life. His girlfriend is so lovely too.
Drizella: Oh, thats good! Who is his girlfriend?
Rapunzel: Her names is Elsa.
Drizella: Wait. You dont mean THE Elsa.
Rapunzel: Huh?
Drizella: Does she go to Arrendale High?
Rapunzel: Yeah think so!
Drizella: (Shocked) No fricken WAY!
Rapunzel: Why is that exciting?
Drizella: Do you realise that Elsa is the QUEEN BEE of Arrendale
High; she is probably the most popular girl in the entire town!
Rapunzel: I mean she does seem to have a lot of friends.
Drizella: A lot of friends?! Shes maxed out her Facebook friends
list, she has over 20,000 Instagram followers and hardly anyone even
knows her last name because you dont even need to! If you mention
the name Elsa, everyone will know exactly who you mean.
Rapunzel: Are you serious? She seems really nice to me.
Drizella: Dont get me wrong she is lovely to your face; its what
she says about you on the internet that you have to worry about.
Rapunzel: Really? Do you think she will have said anything nasty
about me?
Drizella: Na, I havent seen anything.
Rapunzel: Phew.
Drizella: Anyway, I cant believe this!
Rapunzel: Why not?
Drizella: Do you not realise what this means?!
Rapunzel: No...
Drizella: Oh my god. You can ask Elsa to expose Cinderella as a
liar! They are obviously going to believe her!
Rapunzel: But
Drizella: That would totally work! Please please do this for me.
Rapunzel: Im pretty sure Elsa will know who Cinderella is if shes
so popular
Drizella: Oh yeah for sure they know each other; Elsa is the ONE
person that despises Cinderella.
Rapunzel: Really? Why?
Drizella: Well obviously, because Cinderella is slowly become closer
and closer to stealing Elsas so called crown. I mean I doubt she
ever would, but Elsa is very protective.
Rapunzel: Oh, wow. Surely, you will need a lot of evidence to prove
that Cinderella is lying, so that Elsa will believe us.
Drizella: Oh crap that is true. (Pause) Hmmmm. Well I still have all
the photos on my phone of her lounging around doing nothing at home.
Rapunzel: I thought you tried showing people those and they didnt
work.
Drizella: But thats because no one WANTED to believe me, if they
come from Elsa then people actually might take them seriously.
Rapunzel: That is a good point. Can I see some of the photos?
Drizella: Sure, one sec.

(Pause)
Sound of caf, and scrolling through phone.

Drizella: Look, Here she is watching TV with a facemask on, bearing

in mind this was taken 2 minutes after she had tweeted about being
forced to clean all the bathrooms.
Rapunzel: Wait, if this photo has a time and date on it at the top,
would her tweet also have that?
(Pause)
Sound of caf in background
Drizella: (Excited) Oh. My. GOD. You are a genius! We can match the
time and dates of this photo and her tweet, send them to Elsa, and
she can post them and show everyone what a lying cow Cinderella is!
Rapunzel: I guess there is no harm in trying it!
Drizella: Okay, let me find the tweets hold on
(Pause)
Sound of caf in background.
Drizella: Okay here they are. Now is there any way you can get hold
of Elsa?
Rapunzel: Urmmm, I dont think I have her number, but I could ring
Jack
Drizella: Perfect! Do it!
Rapunzel: Okay, hang on.
(Pause)
Sound of caf in background

Drizella: Put it on speaker!

(Sound of phone dialling)

Jack: Hello?
Rapunzel: Hi, Jack its Rapunzel!
Jack: Yeah I know, you keep forgetting your name comes up on my
phone when you ring me.
Rapunzel: Sorry, anyway Im here with Drizella
Jack: Oh cool, tell her I say hi.
Rapunzel: Jack says hi.
Drizella: Yeah I know, just ugh.
Rapunzel: Oh right, anyway. I need to ask you a favour.
Jack: What is it?
Rapunzel: Okay so have you heard of Cinderella?
Jack: Yeah of course, why?
Rapunzel: Well basically, everything she says on social media is a
lie. Drizella and her sister do not bully Cinderella at all and she
has pictures to prove it.
Jack: What does that have to do with me?
Rapunzel: Well, as no one will listen to Drizella, we were wondering
if maybe Elsa would help us expose her once and for all
Jack: (Unsure) Hmmm I dont know Rapunzel.
Rapunzel: But Cinderella and Elsa are enemies arent they?
Jack: Well yeah, but I really dont want to encourage her to get
into this. She is trying to stop getting involved in drama at the
moment.
Rapunzel: Oh come on Jack, this is huge! If she has the chance to
expose her archenemy as a complete liar and a fraud, and help an
innocent girl get her life back, she would want to do it!
(Pause)
Ruffling sound coming from the phone.

Jack: Are you absolutely convinced that this is all true?

Rapunzel: I have seen all the evidence. Even if I hadnt I would
believe Drizella, shes one of the only people whose wanted anything
to do with me since I was found so please help me to help her.
(Pause)
Ruffling sound coming from phone.

Jack: Ugh Okay. I will speak to Elsa.

Rapunzel: (Passionate) Thank you so much Jack! You are the best!
Jack: No worries, I will speak to her now and see what she says.
Drizella: (Shouts) Thank you thank you!
Jack: Alright, bye.
(Pause)
Sound of phone hanging up.

Rapunzel: (Excited) Yes! This is so good!

Drizella: Honestly Rapunzel, I cant thank you enough for this. You
have no idea how hard that girl has made my life. I thought Id lost
hope and would have to move schools or something.
Rapunzel: I just cannot see how your parents havent caught on to
any of this.
Drizella: Well I have a tendency to exaggerate a little, so my mum
just thinks I am being over dramatic. Plus she doesnt know the
first thing about technology so when I try to show her the evidence
she just gets confused and says something like Oh Drizella Im sure
shes just being silly
Rapunzel: Has no one told the teachers?
Drizella: No. She has asked people not to or she will get in lots of
trouble, honestly I cant describe how manipulative she is.
(Phone Ringing)
Rapunzel: Oooh its Jack!
(Pause)
Ruffling sound coming from phone
Rapunzel: Hi!
Jack: Hey, I just got off the phone to Elsa.
Rapunzel: Oh my gosh! What did she say?
Jack: Well, I explained everything, and obviously, she is thrilled
about it. She has wanted an excuse to bring down Cinderella for
ages, but she cant do much to a girl that everyone feels sorry for.
So shes said if you have the evidence could you send it to her over
Facebook.
Rapunzel: Yes we can do that! When will she post it?
Jack: At around 7pm tonight, when most of her followers will be
active.
Rapunzel: Brilliant! This sounds great! We will be sure to send her
all of the pictures now.
Jack: Cool. And Rapunzel, can you do me a favour?
Rapunzel: What?
Jack: Never ask me to do anything like this again.
Rapunzel: (Laughs) Sure.
Jack: See you later.
Sound of phone hanging up.
Drizella: (Screams) Oh my god! This is LITERALLY a miracle!
Cinderella is finally going to get what is coming to her. And
everyone is going to HATE her.
Rapunzel: And they will be so embarrassed that they even believed
that girl and so sorry they were ever nasty to you.
Drizella: (Excited) I am finally going to have my life back!
Rapunzel: (Happy) Im so glad!
Drizella: Better, send the photos to Elsa so we can finally take
that bitch down.
Rapunzel: Thank god, this has ended happily ever after!

Approx. 10.5 minutes.