Cinderella

A Marionette Show by
The Tanglewood Marionettes

In Cinderella, there is a girl, named Cinderella, who is treated cruelly by her stepmother and her two ugly stepsisters. Cinderella is like a slave to her stepmother and stepsisters. They make her work all day and night every single day. Her only friend is a bird called Alouette. Meanwhile, the prince needs a wife so his advisor, Rudy, holds a ball and invites the entire kingdom. Cinderella can't go because she has nothing to wear because her evil stepmother ripped up her real mother's ball gowns and turned them into rags. Cinderella starts to cry and suddenly her fairy godmother appears out of nowhere. She transforms Cinderella into a beautiful lady so that she could go to the ball. At the ball, she meets the Prince. They fall in love, but she has to leave because she promised her fairy godmother that she would be home by midnight. Cinderella loses a glass slipper while she is running home. The prince picks up the slipper and searches for her by having every single girl in the kingdom try on the shoe. When they get to Cinderella's house, her evil stepmother has locked her in a room. The Prince helps her to escape. They get married and they live happily ever after.

In the play of Cinderella, I thought that the puppeteers were skillful and funny. I liked how the marionettes looked so realistic and life-like. The marionettes wore very fancy costumes. Cinderella was cool because when the Fairy Godmother transforms her for the ball, the puppeteer flips her from her raggedy outfit to her beautiful one. The sound was neat too because they played a recording that had acting and music in the background. I think that it would have been too much for the puppeteers to have to act and move the marionettes at the same time. The scenery was painted on to giant boards that flipped open like a book; they almost looked 3-D.

I really enjoyed the puppet show. This was my first puppet show ever. I think that the audience liked it too because they were all applauding. I would totally recommend Cinderella to everyone.

Reviewed by Kojiro Leonard,
Grade 3, South Shore Charter School

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