Hansel and Gretel
Pantomime Script
12 Characters ⎜ 8 Principals, 4 Supporting plus Ensemble ⎜ Running time ~1h 50m
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Hansel and Gretel is panto's best-kept small-cast secret. It has a proper witch, a gingerbread house, a forest full of peril, and Dame Kitty Kipling, a richly written Dame part built entirely around an obsession with baking. A tight, fast-moving script with excellent material for a small principal company and a Chorus that gets proper stage time throughout.
Hansel and Gretel Pantomime Script Synopsis
Everyone in town is celebrating with an enormous feast of cakes and biscuits, and Dame Kitty Kipling is marking the occasion with a towering pyramid of profiteroles. But from there, everything starts to go horribly wrong.
Stinkworth, the Wicked Witch's scheming sidekick, kidnaps Hansel and Gretel and delivers them straight to her for dinner. Determined to save them, Dame Kipling gathers a rescue party and ventures deep into the forest, in search of the Gingerbread House.
Will anyone make it back in time for the show-stopping celebration cake?
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Hansel and 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.
MR WOLLYHOOD: I made it using fruit grown in my garden.
GREG: Mrs Peith has made a baklava that looks like a baguette.
MRS PEITH 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 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!