Hansel & Gretel Pantomime Script
The sweetest Panto there is!
Pantoland is celebrating with an enormous feast & Dame Betty Kipling is marking the occasion with an enormous pyramid of profiteroles. Unfortunately from there things start going all sorts of wrong!
After Stinkworth, the Wicked Witch's sidekick, kidnaps Hansel & Gretel & delivers them to her for dinner, Dame Kipling organises a rescue party & heads into the forest. Will they find the Gingerbread House? Will it be too late? And will they finally get the show-stopping celebration cake they've all been waiting for?
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List of Characters
8 Principals
Plus Ensemble
2 Male
3 Female
3 Male/Female
PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS
Hansel: (M/F) Titular character. Gretel’s brother.
Gretel: (F) Titular character. Hansel’s sister.
Dame Betty Kipling: (M) The Dame. Baker, cake maker & biscuit connoisseur.
Greg Kipling: (M/F) Dame Kipling’s son.
Griselda: (F) Wicked Witch & occupant of the Gingerbread house.
Ernest: (M) Hansel & Gretel’s father.
Edna: (F) Hansel & Gretel’s stepmother, Ernest’s second wife.
Stinkworth: (M/F) Griselda’s evil sidekick.
ENSEMBLE
Townsfolk, Bakers, Customers & Ghosts etc.
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Hansel & Gretel Pantomime Script Excerpt
The ENSEMBLE gather around GREG as he addresses the AUDIENCE.
GREG: To celebrate the town’s centenary year we’re having a great big feast. We’ve got a smorgasbord of delicious deserts of all shapes and sizes and more crazy cakes and barmy biscuits than the Great British Bake Off! Look here, Mr Wollyhood has made an apple crumble in the shape of a chocolate cake.
MR WOLLYHOOD displays his chocolate cake to the AUDIENCE. Everyone “oohs” and there is a polite round of applause.
GREG: Mrs Peith has made a baklava that looks like a baguette.
MRS PEITH member shows off her baguette to the AUDIENCE. Everyone “oohs” and gives a polite round of applause.
GREG: And Miss Merry has made an Eton mess that looks just like a lovely large, delicious sponge.
MISS MERRY member displays a yellow cleaning sponge to the AUDIENCE. Again everyone “oohs” and applauds.
GREG: There is such a talent here, we’re baking mad you see. We’re just waiting for one more person to arrive, my mum, Dame Kipling.
ENSEMBLE 1: I hope she gets here soon. She always makes the best biscuits.
ENSEMBLE 2: I wonder what she’s bringing, I love her coffee flavoured tea cakes!
GREG: Last year she made a biscuit model of our town square complete with the market place. She made the market stalls out of sponge fingers, jelly and custard. It looked lovely, but it was a trifle bazaar!
ENSEMBLE 3: Dame Kipling makes exceeding tasty cakes.
ENSEMBLE 1: No, Dame Kipling makes exceedingly delicious cakes.
ENSEMBLE 2: Personally I think Dame Kipling makes exceedingly marvellous cakes.
GREG: They’ve been trying to come up with a marketing slogan for my mum’s baking for years, but they’ve never quite got it right!