History, Allegedly presents · Reel I
The Scissor Queen
The untold story of Marie Antoinette, inventor of scissoring.
She lost her head.
She never lost her edgeallegedly.
Twenty-one fill-in-the-blank scenes, told the way they should have been. You bring the words. A cast with mandatory accents performs them. Every scene becomes a drawing, and the drawings become your movie.
Overheard at Versailles
“Let them eat cake.”Marie Antoinette, context withheld
“She’s a gold-digger!”The Princesse de Lamballe, shortly before fainting
“I didn’t understand it, but I felt ___!”Louis XVI
“There are many people reading this today.”Marie Antoinette
The collection
Now showing
Reel I · Twenty-one scenes
The Scissor Queen
Before the Revolution. Before the cake. There was a queen with a vision, two best friends, and a pair of dressmaker's shears.
Play it ☞Reel II
In the edit
The next scandal is still being cut.
Reel III
In the edit
Somebody's ancestors are about to have a very bad week.
How it plays
Two or more players.
A bottle of something French.
Cast it
One player is the Director. Everyone else is the Cast. The Director asks for each word ("I need an adjective") and types it in. Nobody else sees the scene.
Hear it
Roll camera and the scene appears with your words in it. Press Perform and a narrator and cast read it aloud. Accents are mandatory. Fainting is optional.
Roll it
Every scene you play can be painted as a still for your storyboard. When you're done, the storyboard plays back as a movie you can download.
Based on a true rumor
Things that really happened
In the 1780s, illegal pamphlets flooded Paris accusing Marie Antoinette of affairs with the Princesse de Lamballe and the Duchesse de Polignac. Historians call it political slander. This screenplay asks a better question: what if she also invented something?
Everything else, you made up.
A Versailles production · Final draft, Paris, M.DCC.XCIII.
The Scissor Queen
Pick any scene. They run in order, but nobody at Versailles ever followed the rules. Your words save on this device as you go.
The Scissor Queen
Your storyboard
Every scene you've cast, in order. Paint the ones still in grey, then roll the movie. Scenes you've performed play with their voices; the rest play as title cards.