Rumpelstiltskin
by Charlotte B

A play of intrigue, showing that greed can never master the world.

Cast of 5 women, 5 men, 1 dwarf, courtiers.

Two sets.

Fairy-tale costumes.

Rumpelstiltskin wishes a King's baby to put in his pot, so that he may rule the hearts of men, filling them so full of greed that they will destroy each other, leaving him the whole world to himself.

Looking over the earth from his hilltop, he discovers a miller's daughter, who has just won a Prince for her husband, if she can spin straw into gold.

When the King orders her actually to spin the gold, she is left alone in despair; and Rumpelstiltskin appears magically, offering to spin the gold for her, if she will give him her first child.

When the child is born, and Rumpel appears to claim it, she persuades him to give her another chance.

He offers her one chance to keep the child -- if she can guess his name.

When, at the last moment, she confronts him with the name, he flies to pieces with rage.