Dick Whittington Pantomime Script
The Pantomime that's paved with gold!
Dick Whittington has traveled to London to seek his fortune but upon arrival not everything is quite as he imagined. The city is overrun with rats & Alderman Fitzwarren is at his wits end trying to banish them. Dick senses an opportunity to prove his worth (& marry Alice, the girl of his dreams) so sets about ridding the city of vermin.
Queen Rat is furious with Dick & frames him in a bid to keep control. Add in Dame Sarah Snafflebratt, Idle Jack, & Eileen the mischievous cat, Dick Whittington has his work cut out to restore order & his reputation.
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List of Characters
10 Principals
2 Smaller Roles
Plus Ensemble
2 Male
3 Female
7 Male/Female
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Dick Whittington: (M/F) Principal boy. Off to London to seek his fortune.
Alice Fitzwarren: (F) Alderman Fitzwarren’s daughter & Dick’s love interest.
Sarah Snafflebratt: (M) The Dame. Restauranteur & Jack’s mum.
Idle Jack: (M/F) A lazy lad. Sarah’s son.
Alderman Fitzwarren: (M) Leader of the local council. Alice’s father.
Eileen: (F) (Skin) Dick’s Cat.
King/Queen Rat: (M/F) The baddie. Villainous vermin & ruler of rat-kind. (Written as Queen Rat but can be easily changed to King Rat!)
Frank: (M/F) Hench-rat & member of the Rat Pack.
Sammy: (M/F) Hench-rat & member of the Rat Pack.
Fairy Bow-Bells: (F) A magical fairy & Dick’s spiritual guide.
SMALLER ROLES
Captain Watt: (M/F) Captain of the Steamy Steven.
Sultan Pepper: (M/F) The ruler of Farawayland.
ENSEMBLE
Townsfolk, Sailors, Rats & Pest Controllers etc.
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Dick Whittington Pantomime Script Excerpt
An evil chord plays as QUEEN RAT enters. FRANK & SAMMY (her henchmen) enter from the other side.
FRANK: Sorry we’re late ma'am.
SAMMY: A hundred apologies.
QUEEN RAT: I’ve told you before to stop apologising.
FRANK: And we’re very sorry we do.
SAMMY: A thousand apologies.
QUEEN RAT: I said stop it.
FRANK: Please forgive us.
SAMMY: A million apologies.
QUEEN RAT: Have you quite finished?
FRANK: Yes.
Beat. FRANK & SAMMY look at each other and then back at QUEEN RAT. They speak at the same time.
FRANK & SAMMY: Sorry.
QUEEN RAT rolls her eyes.
QUEEN RAT: Enough. Where are the others?
FRANK: They’re on their way. Dean got distracted by a wheelie bin.
SAMMY: You should have seen it, it was overflowing with really good rubbish.
FRANK: I can’t believe the sort of thing those humans throw away!
QUEEN RAT: That’s the trouble with humans, they don’t know their rubbish!
FRANK: They’ve even got this new slogan… reduce, reuse, recycle!
SAMMY: Is that why they’re reusing some of the same jokes as last year?
QUEEN RAT: What’s the latest with Alderman Fitzwarren’s city clean up plan?
FRANK: Bad news I’m afraid. They’ve got a council meeting tomorrow about extending the low emissions zone.
QUEEN RAT: What is that?
FRANK: It’s part of his plan to give everyone easy access to clean air and fresh water.
QUEEN RAT is horrified and almost gags at the idea.
QUEEN RAT: What?!
SAMMY: Actually, that’s not true ma’am.
QUEEN RAT: Thank goodness!
SAMMY: His plan is to give everyone fresh air and clean water!
QUEEN RAT: That’s even worse! How are we supposed to spread disease and pestilence when public services are going round cleaning everything up! Oh I hate the council!