We're Doing Cinderella by Sheila Rinear


Full Length Stage Plays

One Act Stage Plays

One Person Stage Plays

Short Stage Plays

Screen Play Synopses

Timeline of All Works
One Act Stage Plays

A Day Without Palestine- Eve, an idealistic recent college-graduate, meets with her parents to bring them up-to-date on her fact-finding visit to Palestine only to be scolded for her naiveté by her Vietnam War-protesting father. 3 Females; 2 Males.

Counter Intelligence- Zan, a Persian-American college student in New York City, confronts her boss's narrow-minded thinking in the weeks after 9-11. 1 Female; 2 Males.

Mission Improbable- A New Orleans Katrina refugee is welcomed back into the arms of her family only to remember why she left them to live in New Orleans in the first place. 2 Females; 1 Male.

Play Fair- A young poet, afraid that her business major fiancée's prediction that she's lucky to be marrying him because she'll never make a living as a poet, meets a young novelist who is willing to struggle for his art. 3 Females; 1 Male.

Dixie- At John Glenn Middle School a new student's dream of being accepted by her peers leads her to trust them. As a result she discovers they're being as mean to her as she's been to new students at her old school. 20 to 25 Males/Females.

Dancing on Daddy's Shoes- In a girls' boarding school at the start of World War I, the daughter of a prominent American military leader faces the reality of war's pain and discovers she has a heart as great and generous as her heroic father. 20 to 30 Males/Females. (Appropriate for High School or Middle School production.)

We're Doing Cinderella??- Ella resists the friendship of teens she encounters in a witness protection program until the magical substitute teacher Ms. Hadda Madrina (trans. Fairy Godmother) starts waving a powerful yardstick. 20 to 30 Males/Females. (Appropriate for High School or Middle School production.)
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